Sentences with phrase «intelligible world of ideas»

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Arab philosophy after al - Kindi26 [al - Farabi, 27 Ibn Sina28 and Ibn Rushd 29] gradually adopted a synthetic worldview incorporating Platonic idea of the existence of the intelligible world existing separate from the sensible world for three reasons: i) To make space for the possibility of preserving the transcendence of the Divine: ii) To create a notional space for the prophetic - mystical epistemology; iii) To make the philosophers» rational knowledge of the entire reality possible.

Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

But science is about the HOW and the WHY of the physical world and there's no getting around math in determining, for example, how the moon's gravity interacts with the Earth anymore than I can write this comment and make it intelligible without some basic understanding of the «math» of writing — grammar, syntax, etc — how words fit together to convey ideas.

And the Idea of the Good is the divine Sun that allows us, once it is grasped, to know all existing Ideas in the intelligible world.

Any entity existing in the visible world is intelligible only by virtue of a corresponding Idea that gives it an order, a sense, and an identity.