Sentences with phrase «of ideal orders»

Imperfection implies the progressive fulfillment of ideal orders, but it also involves the corresponding destruction of lower forms in favor of higher ones.

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Truth and honor and the well being of others and the ideal of a better social order for future generations — these are all worth while for a man to lay down his life and for a woman to give up her husband or a mother to give up her son.

the ideal of human relationships as a social order where the principles of the family shall be universalized — all such conceptions, familiar in Jesus» teaching, go back to the home for their rootage and sustenance.

He adds himself to the world as the vision of ideal possibility, from which every new occasion takes its rise, thereby ensuring a measure of order and value in a situation that could otherwise be only chaotic and indeed could achieve no actuality at all.

The general principle is that the ultimate test of every commitment to ideals takes place at the bodily level, whether in the application of force by the governing powers or in the suffering of those who actively or passively resist the prevailing political order.

Logically, he would discover God there, and he did not feel the need to make a transition from the ideal to the cosmological order, for the latter was seen as the region of sin, contingency and error, and hence quite irrelevant.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

With reason restored to its proper place in the world, we are not susceptible to the criticism of Thomas that we are making an illegitimate transition from the ideal to the real order.

God presents at each new moment a «partly new ideal or order of preference.»

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

There is among the orders no ideal state, no ideal marriage, no ideal economic system, as though God's Word should be equated with some abstract ideal structures of life.

It was intended to be an educational movement suitable to a British Empire united not by blood or race but by ideals, among which were that of a moral order involving respect for God, whatever else one might think about God.

The Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests is perhaps still too much determined by an ideal which originated in the social order of the past.

Here order appears as a state of affairs in which the supportive structured society is adapted to prevailing circumstances such that the dominant ideal of its personal strand of mental occasions is least frustrated by the actual world of its environment.

Maximal adaptation would signify maximum order as verified in the successful achievement of the dominant ideal.

[G: 338.28 - 339.33 a] 16 Another contrast is equally essential for the understanding of ideals — the contrast between order as the condition for excellence, and order as stifling the freshness of living, This contrast is met with in the theory of education.

In contrast with this ideal of democracy established in common dedication to a given order of worth and excellence is another concept of democracy growing out of the interest, or satisfaction, theory of value.

I suggest that what Hare and Madden are emphasizing is not the frustration of desires in order to attain an ideal but rather the more effective, efficient, and successful use of power to approximate the ideal.

In some cases, coercion is the only responsible alternative in order to maintain the ideal of maximum intensity and harmony of feeling and satisfaction.

And how can that ideal marriage contract's list account for the pain and danger of Mrs. Jacobi, a late - middle - aged client who comes to Marianne's office for a divorce in order to take a step toward recovering her sense of living?

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

In his analysis of order at the outset of «The Order of Nature» (II.3.1), Whitehead observes that «There is not just one ideal «order» which all actual entities should attain and fail to atorder at the outset of «The Order of Nature» (II.3.1), Whitehead observes that «There is not just one ideal «order» which all actual entities should attain and fail to atOrder of Nature» (II.3.1), Whitehead observes that «There is not just one ideal «order» which all actual entities should attain and fail to atorder» which all actual entities should attain and fail to attain.

The justification for any relevance extending beyond actuality would have to depend upon the internal relatedness of the eternal objects ordered as a realm, The occasion incorporates these new elements in forming its «ideal of itself by reference to eternal principles of valuation.»

In order to progress towards the ideal proposed by the religions the renunciation of selfishness by individuals at personal level should lead to a social concern for a positive loving caring for all, especially the many in dire need in our globalized society.

Instead of seeing moral obligations simply as individual and social ideals externally related to the factual order of life and physical reality, I began to see them as demands on human life no less intrinsically real than gravitation.

Shalit shows how, even in the face of such cultural pressures, a surprising number of young women are reclaiming the ideal of modesty — and often returning to traditional religion in order to do so.

In order to keep this harmonious ideal intact Americans have had to brush aside the darker moral ambiguities of life, the tragic dimension of human existence, and maintain stalwart optimism and «positive thinking.»

Thus God seeks to «lure» the world toward more desirable forms of order.81 The power of the divine ideal, however, is not different in kind from the influence of other past actual entities.

The United States is the country where, more than any other, the ideal of a religiously tolerant political order has been enshrined in a constitution, and interpreted by the judiciary, in such a way as to attempt a consistent separation between church and state.

Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.

Both liberal political philosophy and liberal Christianity have put a large measure of trust in the achievement of the good society through establishment of a legal constitutional order which embodies the essential ideals of justice and equality.

The structure of the ideal society Can not be finally prescribed, nor can we directly create a new order, The stuff of human history and human nature simply does not permit that kind of attack.

Democracy as an ideal might be said to be the attempt to accord to every person the possibility of finding his rightful share in the social good through an order in which his interests and claims will have a fair hearing, and through a political process in which whatever power he can legitimately muster will be able to make itself felt.

Plato, for example, borrows some of the Spartan ideals for his perfect state in order to arrest the decay of Athens.2 This misses, I believe, the profounder significance of Plato's Republic as an expression of philosophical wisdom.

In particular we shall examine the problem of the Christian ideal of love when it is confronted by the realities of the political orders.

Communism, as originally laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, required the abolition of all religion in order to reach its ideal end - state.

Only God, we will recall, is viewed by Cobb as being present within all other actual occasions, as entertaining the ideal aim for each newly concrescing actual occasion, as «the ground of being, the ground of purpose, and the ground of order» (CNT 227), as the principle of guidance, and as the one whose universal aim for the «ideal strength of beauty» (CNT 180) of the universe is never finally defeated.

For example, a college student's relentless pursuit of academic excellence in order to become a very successful professional may, in considerable part, be an unconscious performance before his or her parents, teachers, or others who embody an important cultural ideal.

Our awareness of the «not - yet» at the level of human history leads us to invest our hopes in dreams of ideal social orders.

This is why «liberty» so construed by the Evangelists of the Sexual Revolution is so emptied of its richness as an ideal so germane to Ordered Liberty.

A century ago, T. S. Eliot presented the image of a self - organizing literary culture in «Tradition and the Individual Talent,» one in which «[t] he existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them,» which alters «the whole existing order... if ever so slightly.»

Israel hoped not for an ideal world order (if the word «ideal» be used in its strict sense), but for the end of earthly things and for the glory of God and His people.

This ideal realization of potentialities in a primordial actual entity constitutes the metaphysical stability whereby the actual process exemplified general principles of metaphysics, and attains the ends proper to specific types of emergent order.

If we think of this subjective aim simply as a conceptual feeling, or even as analogous to an ordinary subjective aim embracing its whole career, we apt to think of it as some very general ideal, necessarily vague in order to be all - inclusive.

He assumes with most that all activity must be present activity, so «God» in pantheistic fashion names the activity of the world insofar as it is ordered toward this ideal deity.

THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY AND YET... YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

The claim is that, in order for the process of actualization to be possible at all, «antecedent limitations» must be applied to the multiplicity of possibilities, and these are carried out in the «conceptual envisagement» of the total multiplicity of eternal objects, or ideal forms, by God.

Since a social group may profitably organize itself around more than one set of ideals (AI 356f), it becomes necessary to use a certain amount of «compulsory dominion of men over men» in order to secure «the coordination of behavior necessary for social welfare» (AI 108f, cf. 218).