Sentences with phrase «mere givenness»
Whitehead says here (PR 127, for instance, the» «order» in the actual world is differentiated from mere givenness by introduction of adaption for the attainment of an end.»
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Why has our species been so ineradicably religious, so sensitive to a dimension of mystery summoning us to move beyond any absolute contentment with the mere givenness of things?
At the same time, however, Jesus» imagining of the kingdom pulls us and our world beyond the mere givenness of the present.