Sentences with phrase «of eternal values»

Traditionally family - like in the spirit of eternal values and the cult of maternity?

to the idea that material advance, if it is to become meaningful and to enhance the quality of life, should recognize the spiritual real iii of eternal values towards which religions point.

And this shift, though «a deep and radical revolt against the central tradition of western thought which affirmed the existence of eternal values,» is, in Berlin's eyes, a very good thing.

Christianity is, they might say, a religion for personal salvation or for the preservation of eternal values.

Not exact matches

I just don't (personally) see any redemptive value in the teachings of eternal punishment.

Without eternal perspectives and without the sense of our individual immortal value — the great Tocqueville reminded us — the sheer materialism and dreck of democracy and capitalism would wear us down to mean and petty creatures.

But if there has always been a realm of finite actualities, and if the existence of such a realm (though not with any particular order) is as eternal and necessary as is the existence of God, then it also makes sense to think of eternally necessary principles descriptive of their possible relationships... [T] his correlation between freedom and intrinsic value is a necessary one, rather than a result of divine arbitrariness (PTE 711).

The death of Christ is of no value to you if you don't believe in Jesus for eternal life.

Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities physical feelings as well.

His concern is that the existence of an eternal God would have the effect of diminishing the value of existence.

When one reads the many critics who discuss Camus» «atheism,» or his «new humanism,» or his Lack of «eternal values,» or even Camus» own attacks upon the Christian God, it is astonishing to read what he states to be his «rebel's» true intention: «He is seeking, without knowing it, morality or the sacred.

Although the simple eternal object defines a class of particulars that as values of the variable are that definite shade of green, and although these individuals are externally related, the simple eternal object itself is internally related to the higher grade object, in that it partially constitutes its essence.

Those who are seeking for the «secular» meaning of the Gospel could well turn to Whitehead's doctrine of the secular functions of God.51 God holds the world together by offering his eternal structure of value to every particular experience so that everything happens in significant relation to the world order and the community of beings.

The only creative God we recognize is the creative event itself, So also we ignore the transcendental affirmation in the Greek tradition of the reality of Forms of value, uncreated and eternal, having causal efficacy to constrain the shape of things without themselves being events at all.

We may summarize its affirmations as holding that God is a nontemporal actual entity, transcendent, immanent, eternal, cause of itself, the basis for reasons of the highest absoluteness, and possibly the source of the eternal principles of value.

His metaphysics provides a structure for understanding both the unity and the variety, the independence and the interrelatedness of things; it allows us to accept the fleetingness of an experience of value and yet to grasp its eternal significance; its understanding of process recognizes the reality of both being and becoming.

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

Later the subject will select the «ideal of itself» from the «objective lure», which is the original fund of values and eternal objects it can draw upon.

Originally as the principle of limitation, the principle of concretion determined which of the eternal objects would be actualizable in the world, now each occasion actualizes itself in terms of God's gradation of values.

Because energy is eternal it has a value of Zero, we all know that the value of nothing is Zero.

With these considerations it is possible to note the following characteristics which both eternal objects and propositions share: 1) potentiality or «patience» for realization, 2) indeterminacy or abstraction from actualities, and 3) absence of truth - value.

In the last chapter we explained that the «resurrection of the dead» expresses the hope that the whole of a man's life from beginning to end will be raised before the divine Judgment Seat and be accepted by God as possessing something of value which will give it an eternal meaning.

«The organism is a unit of emergent value, a real fusion of the characters of eternal objects, emerging for its own sake» (SMW 107).

I interpret the Genesis story of our exile from the Garden where there was access to the Tree of Life (temporal immortality) not as punishment; but as placing a limit on temporal existence to keep us focused on Eternal values.

Here what constitutes an emergent value is «a real fusion of the characters of eternal objects.»

If the disciples catch one single person out of the clutches of the devil and help bring that person into the loving arms of God the Father, that catch alone is of infinite and eternal value.

If Jesus were walking earth today teaching, would He still teach about honor (showing that striving for honor is better than striving for wealth), OR would He use the primary social value of today, and teach us to strive for eternal wealth?

Time's essential passage is valued cosmic justice and punishment, and the necessary need of willing as an eternal, unredeemable curse.

This referential character adds what is commonly overlooked in discussion of ideality and reality — namely, no eternal object (or ideal) is ingressed (or realized) simpliciter, but only as a relatum whose relata are simultaneously ingressed relatively (insofar as they are graded in value up or down).

Yet to grasp the full significance of the eternal recurrence, we must first recall Nietzsche's basic intentions: namely, to accord an ultimate value to the realm of becoming and temporal life; to redeem and to unleash the creative potentials of earthly will to power; and to help create a humanly significant future.

Anger as an eternal object is not a value; it is this particular instance of anger as characterizing this particular unit of feeling which is a value.

In this effort to bring eternal values into the context of culture, humanity becomes unified, serving the cause of self - perfection on the way to God.

The dignity of the individual person is a Western experience grounded in the Christian knowledge of man as a child of God and his eternal value as such.

Specifically it is to see how the valuing of the eternal objects develops into a source of the initial aim.

First, the ordering or valuing of the eternal objects has to do with God himself as an actual entity.

The term «resurrection of the dead» should not be interpreted as a hope for the prolongation or restoration of our own conscious existence, but rather a hope that human life has meaning, that when our conscious existence is ended, the historical life we have lived may be raised before the eternal Judge, and may be vindicated, as being of some value for that Kingdom which is eternal and for whose fuller manifestation on earth we ever pray.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

The following verses through the first part of verse 15 illustrates how only the work which is built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ will have eternal value.

How, in other words, if there is no eternal ground of values, can your own strict standards be anything other than arbitrary, conventional, historically limited human concoctions?

This synthesis of eternal object and actual entity can be «picked out,» «held up» for valuation precisely because its truth value is not in the nature of the synthesis.

Niebuhr would, of course, understand that nothing he wrote had eternal value; his cautions that we should be sparing in handing out bouquets are found on virtually every page of his writings, along with his affirmation of such old - fashioned doctrines as original sin and the transcendence of God.

Both what is inherited in a causal chain and what «endures» in a life history are eternal objects, either qualia (or subjective forms in the language of PR) or overarching value structures (i.e., defining characteristics).

This property amounts to the recovery, on behalf of value amid the transitoriness of reality, of the self - identity which is also enjoyed by the primary eternal objects.

For example, Whitehead describes God as «the non-temporal act of all - inclusive unfettered valuation» (Process 31) 13 All - inclusive (Process 32) in the sense that all eternal oh jets are valued in it, so that the divine actual entity is non-derivative (Process 32).

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

Eternal objects, therefore, «ingress» into (enter into the constitution of, become ingredient in) the process of realization which culminates in the synthesis of possibility and actuality into a concrete, fully determinate value.

Thus the Hindu nationalist is someone who, through fostering the myth of internal and external threat to national stability and security, places maximum moral value on affirming that India's core consists of the eternal Hindu tenets (loyalty) and defending these with the conviction and zeal of patriotic duty to the country (attachment).

In turn this faith dilutes the value of the corporeal life because the eye is on the eternal one.

The importance of this novel recommendation for ethics lies in its characteristic ability to moderate between extreme positions: although, against the pragmatists, values are held as eternal, they are not, against the Platonists, degraded by their relation with the finite world.

It is only the eternal standard and principle of possible achievements of value, not any actual achievement.