Sentences with word «nonbeing»

Even for God, however, it is impossible to perceive a parcel of absolute nonbeing surrounded by a remainder of existing objects.

It is real in the sense that Plato affirms the reality of nonbeing in the Sophist.

If being is thought of as exclusively at rest, as absolute and without relational dependence (the otherness of relative nonbeing), it can not admit the activity of mind in knowledge.

It is an act of love without which nonbeing would triumph over being.46

Omnipotence is rather «the power of being which resists nonbeing in all its expressions and which is manifest in the creative process in all its forms.»

To smear Daum in this way is totally diminish the meaning of the word racism into nonbeing, and to do a disservice to those victims of real — not imagined — racism.

Indeed, there is little discussion that indicates that Camus is aware of the dependence of nonbeing on being.

(How could we imagine our own nonbeing when this very act of imagining presupposes our own existence?

As to contradiction, consider «the being of pure nonbeing»?

The mystery of death is a part of the larger mystery of life itself The threat of nonbeing which accompanies the thought of one's own death or that of loved ones is a threat that can be handled constructively only by religious means.

Brahman transcends the dichotomy of empirical being and nonbeing.

While this abyss is no thing, it is not nothing - neither being nor nonbeing, it isthe anticipatory wake of the unfigurable that disfigures every figure as if from within.»

We could estimate the force of Scott's «very nearly» better if he offered a systematic presentation of Camus» statements to indicate how conscious he was of «the power of being» in the face of nonbeing.

40 But once again, omnipotence is another symbolic term, though it is retained as an expression of our ultimate courage to have faith in «a victory over the threat of nonbeing.»

God as being - itself includes «the power of resisting nonbeing.»

Paul Tillich points out that those who are empty of meaning are «easy victims of neurotic anxiety» (The Courage to Be (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952), p. 151) and conversely, that a high degree of neurotic anxiety renders one hypersensitive to the threat of nonbeing.

Blacks as a people are faced constantly with the threat of nonbeing.

Tillich, however, also states that as «creative life» God does include the finite realm and even nonbeing (although earlier he said that, «being - itself transcends nonbeing absolutely».

It was a philosophy which defined being by reference to nonbeing, time by reference to death — and thus seemed to Bultmann to be the best available analysis of man waiting and listening for God.

They'll join fight clubs, commit suicide, do anything they can not to look old, spend lots of time avoiding every conceivable risk factor that might switch them from being to nonbeing, work much harder than it makes economic sense, and might, in general, be in some ways more screwed up than people have ever been.

Underneath all the problems of the middle years is the anxiety related to aging — the anxiety of nonbeing, of dying and death.

It does not mean «nonbeing» for us, which is something no one has experienced or could even imagine.

Since change does appear, they reasoned, nonbeing must exist as well as pure being.

The contingent being is that which has no essential or necessary reason for its existence; its being or nonbeing are equally possible; its essence is different from its existence.

There are no lines of nonbeing to cut this up, since an «empty space» is a contradiction in terms on this view; and thus the field is a pure conductor.

And that pure being must come in a plurality of packets that are indivisible These indivisible atoms escape Zeno; the nonbeing postulated to accommodate Parmenides» argument becomes the «space» in which the being particles move.

In defense of his thesis that «only Being is,» Parmenides argued that if there were plurality or change, there would have to be a nonbeing to divide the single whole of Being into simultaneous or successive separate «parts.»

In this way the word disentangles confusion and nonbeing.

But his interpretation is clearly ontological; the whole process occurs as a battle between the powers of being and those of nonbeing.

They think that each person is justified in regarding himself or herself as unique and irreplaceable and in employing his creativity or inventiveness to fend off nonbeing or death as long as possible.

God is beyond being and nonbeing, belief and unbelief, theism and atheism.

The latter provides meaning through combining concepts which the former would regard as logically inconsistent — for example, that Absolute Reality be known as both «being» and «nonbeing,» as «here» and «not here,» and as «God» and «man» (Emptiness [Abingdon, 1967], p. 81).

According to the Upanisadic view of the Brahman, Nirguna Brahman is not being or nonbeing, but being - nonbeing (sat - asat).