Sentences with phrase «nisus toward»

Kaplan's idea of creativity, which can not be accounted for by the so - called laws of nature, echoes Whitehead's metaphysical concept of creativity, the nisus toward the endless production of new syntheses.

In Alexander's words, it is nature as a whole that manifests the «nisus toward deity, «25 deity here being simply the level beyond any presently established structure, and thus the lure toward which the evolutionary thrust is directed.