Sentences with phrase «further classical world»

Von Neumann mentioned that eventually this leads to an infinite regress, because there is always a further classical world.

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He will include all that is known of ancient and medieval and modern Oriental cultures and societies (Near, Middle and Far East) and extend his examination of Western society and cultures back beyond the classical world finally to include the successive types developed in the various great periods of the Christian era down to this day.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

Indeed, insofar as that tradition «itself is in full process of evolution» (PAG 66), one might further surmise that someday the thought of Hegel and Whitehead will be seen as preparatory to a more comprehensive processive world view which will enjoy the same unquestioned acceptance as systems of classical metaphysics in generations past.

So — where before, the classical concept of mission had been from God through the church to the world, now there were advocates of the belief that God addresses the world directly - and some took that too far to believe that the church is therefore not essential to that mission.