Sentences with phrase «necessary existence means»

It deserves emphasis that Hartshorne's understanding of God's necessary existence means that this divine existence does not make any empirical difference whatever in the world.

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Life is the process where you are being equipped and developing spiritual attributes necessary for your purpose and meaning for existence.

Steve... that's not necessary... let's read those writings as the product of human imagination as it seeks the meaning and purpose of human existence and never forget...» to err is human»... anything more is to turn them all into demi - gods.

That means they can't CREATE the conditions necessary for their own existence.

Although the proper attribution of necessary existence to God does not show that God exists (unless we are prepared to allow that reality must have some significant correspondence to what is presupposed in our attempt to find ultimate meaning in reality — an assumption which, as I have suggested, may not be easy to justify but is probably impossible to avoid in such metaphysical thought), it does show that God is either the ground of and compatible with all that is and all that is actually possible or is totally alien to all reality.

If this implies that God has always «had a world» in which there is divine activity, that does not mean that the creation is «necessary» to God, as if the divine existence could not be conceived as transcendent over and unexhausted by what goes on in that created order.

Necessary for human existence, it is also an activity in which we struggle to find meaning and....

Notwithstanding the fact that whatever human meaning we may discover would be inseparable from the meaning of the cosmos, it is still necessary for us to focus our quest for the meaning of revelation on the question of the significance of our own existence as a distinctly historical species.

Since the inclusion of the events in the causal past of some observer is a necessary condition of their observability, it means that future events are intrinsically unobservable and thus it is entirely superfluous to postulate their existence.

No reason at all, for I am not suggesting that there is actually a final philosophical system — e.g. idealism, and Hegelianism in particular — or that it is necessary for our exegesis to take over the actual answers that philosophy gives to the existential question of the meaning of my own particular existence.

Both democratic and antidemocratic forms saw «property» (the means of existence) as being necessary for freedom, but antidemocrats excluded non-proprietors from citizenship, while democrats asserted that the republic had to introduce measures that ensured that all citizens were materially independent.

This means that the existence of regulatory agencies does not imply that Congress can delegate the power to rewrite statutes as necessary to make them Constitutional.

On the contrary, in choosing to conceive, parents are taking the necessary first steps for their child to come into existence; provided they are not making these choices for selfish reasons, they are not treating their child as a means only and are acting permissibly.

«The people living along the Nine form a ravaged micro-community whose Darwinian existence is a day - to - day hustle, and survival is by any means necessary.»