Not exact matches
It is this
kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning
of the traditional term «eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension in time
of our personal
existence but as a new dimension
of existence into which one can enter during his natural life.
In his words: «Perhaps the encounter with the transpersonal
existence of the Buddhist, the recognition
of the serenity and strength it embodies, the experience
of Buddhist meditation, and the study
of Buddhist philosophy will give us the courage to venture
into that
kind of radical love which can carry us
into a postpersonal form
of Christian
existence» (Cobb 1975, 220).
A feeling
of guilt so out
of proportion with what my life was, is it inscribed in the nature
of every child born
into this world (the moral law within us, according to Kant, attests the
existence of God), or is it a deformation occurring in infancy, imposed upon the Christians
of my
kind, and which I have not known how to cure?
To see our
existence as some
kind of coherent story, we have to be able to relate it to a larger story — our «little story» has to be fitted
into a «big story» just as archaic men and ancient apocalyptists both saw.
The quite fundamental issue and that which specially concerns us here — for it is that which Professor Buchler's discussion has brought to the fore — is the problem
of the basis upon which a distinction
into «
kinds» or «types»
of «entities» or «
existence» is made at all.
12 Even on the assumption
of a Vitalism
of essentially higher principles
of that
kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level
of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came
into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation
of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension
of the entelechial function
of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.
However, all this, as we know, has had to be reconsidered by Christians, Mother Church included, once the geological and palaeontological sciences began to reveal the apparently immense age
of the earth and the evidence that the biological species did not all come
into existence at once exactly as they are today but by some
kind of transformism.
Or, what is the nature
of the coming -
into -
existence kind of change -LRB--RRB-?
This dualism
of all
existence into two ultimate
kinds, physical and mental, has been determinative
of almost all thought since that time.
If possibility and actuality could be united to become necessity, they would become an absolutely different essence, which is not a
kind of change; and in becoming necessity or the necessary, they would become that which alone
of all things excludes coming
into existence, which is just as impossible as it is self - contradictory.
Otherwise «the subject
of coming
into existence would not remain unchanged during the change
of coming
into existence,» unless it had not been at all, and then the change
of coming
into existence would for another reason be absolutely different from every other
kind of change, since it would be no change at all, for every change always presupposes something which changes.
What in an older
kind of philosophy would have been called the chain -
of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries
of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each
of them, rather than some other possible occurrence,
into this particular concrete moment
of what we commonly style «
existence».
Because he had left himself no room for any
kind of language
of analogy, which might have allowed him to say how transcendent being shows itself in immanent
existence while still preserving its transcendence, and because, moreover, he had decided in advance that one can not speak
of being in other than temporal terms, he really could not escape lapsing
into a certain fatalism regarding the history he described.
From the lives
of the saints we get an inkling
of the
kind of personal
existence that is fit to emerge intact from the altar fire
of death and enter
into the divine fire
of heaven.
It is obvious that in dealing with the Graeco - Roman world at the time when Christianity came
into existence our problem is not to obtain sufficient materials for study but to make some
kind of selection from these materials.
This segment
of dating that came
into existence in the early 2000s has certainly gained popularity over the recent years, courtesy
of the
kind of benefits that age gap relationships have to offer.
The 10 - episode drama stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant and complicated founder and chief programmer
of Westworld; Ed Harris as the Man in Black, characterized as» the distillation
of pure villainy
into one man»; Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a provincial and
kind rancher's daughter who begins to discover her entire
existence is an elaborately constructed lie; James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a new arrival to a small frontier town; Thandie Newton as the razor - sharp madam Maeve Millay; Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head
of the park's programming division; and Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, a mysterious and savvy provocateur.
If their 2011 slate remains free
of surefire bait, it'd be interesting to see them return to that
kind of resourcefulness — unless, that is, bringing the phrase «Academy Award - nominated filmmaker Madonna»
into existence doesn't sound like a more appealing test.
The camerawork and mise en scene move
into a
kind of cinema verite
existence feelung often like do umentary rather than dramadoc.
«How did such different subcultures come
into existence and persist, and what
kind of impact did they have upon those young people who passed through them?»
The genuine
existence of different
kinds of ability has been transmuted
into breezy assertions that different children learn in different but equally valid ways and that everything will work out if only we tap the special abilities that reside in every child.
Only a year
into its
existence, the Genesis Coupe has been given the
kind of interior makeover we wouldn't expect to see until a mid-cycle refresh.
There are those who fall
into substance abuse and become stuck in this
kind of existence.
It was the first organization
of its
kind in the United States, but it wasn't the last — over the next decade, several similar organizations came
into existence [source: Learning to Give].
For 40 years, enshrined here in installations and drawings with coteries
of remakes
of various
kinds, Jackson's existential investigations
into the meaning and
existence of paint embody the opposite
of the cool analysis done by Gerhard Richter.
Rather, they come
into existence through the act
of painting — which takes place between Carroll Dunham «s hand and the panel —
of whatever
kind, canvas or a wooden plate for printing.
I've seen the CalCars idea evolve to the point where it now provides an achievable strategy to bring a new
kind of car
into existence.
If courts consider this
kind of flight to be a trespass
into private airspace, a market for low altitude air rights would likely come
into existence.