Sentences with phrase «of purposefulness»

«From every standpoint — my independence, my sense of purposefulness, my self - esteem, my life planning — this is just not what I was planning.»

If there is a divine scheme of purposefulness enveloping and grounding the multiple levels and fields of influence in an emergent universe, then we should not expect or demand that its presence be obvious to us either.

It may, and too often does, diminish the idea of purposefulness by proclaiming an array of inexplicable dogmas.

It has been part of the modern program to empty the world of any purposefulness.

If it is asserted that God acts in history, then the claim is being made that God is caught up in the structures of purposefulness.

Rather, «interest» is «importance» taken at a certain level of purposefulness, and «unity» is the ideal purposefulness seeks at its highest level of intensity.

In Modes of Thought, Whitehead also observes that «importance» is a «generic notion» and, therefore, has a fundamental role in the philosophy of organism; it is an intrinsic aspect of the central theme of purposefulness in Whitehead's metaphysics (MT 11).

On the other hand, he does not take the further step of showing how the concept of purposefulness implied by the discoveries of modern science has profound ramifications for scholastic metaphysics, especially the concepts of formality, finality and universality.

Getting good grades and into college does not in itself fulfill the demands of purposefulness; even the desire to achieve these ambitions so as to make a good living and raise a family, while better, does not fully qualify.

Ideally, this culture of purposefulness and academic achievement would be fostered in all American schools.

The commingling of purposefulness and aimlessness was understood to be the effect of Junkspace.

Although these worlds also eventually perish, they do so with a sense of joy and peace as they realize that they have reached the highest level of spiritual and social development of which they are capable and perish with a sense of purposefulness.

Standing at the end of the history of this dualism it is easy for us to see why any attribution of «mentality» (and therefore of purposefulness) to nature will be dismissed as romantic anthropomorphism.

In other words, if there is a divine scheme of purposefulness that envelops and grounds the dimensions of our emergent cosmos, we would not be able to grasp it in an objectifying, controlling way.

Clearly these are heroes, or superheroes, of purposefulness.