IYC and the ACS presidency permitted her to write and speak extensively about the role of science diplomacy as essential for the future
of world harmony and security.
Is the doctrine
of world harmony as naive a form of optimism as Voltaire in Candide mocks Leibniz's doctrine of pre-established moral harmony?
Classical and Christian Ideas
of World Harmony.
The story of the idea
of world harmony ends then with rejection, not with the acceptance stated so vigorously by Whitehead in Science and the Modern World (18).
is Whitehead's doctrine
of world harmony some Platonic optimism that insofar as anything is true, it is also good and beautiful, and insofar as anything is true, good and beautiful, it is also most real?
The great philological historian of ideas, Leo Spitzer, wrote his account of Classical and Christian Ideas
of World Harmony with nostalgia.
Lastly, does Wellek mean by failure of the doctrine
of world harmony that philosophy has not demonstrated or proved in a strong sense the necessity of an ultimate ground of order?
Nor is Whitehead altogether clear about the respects in which the idea
of world harmony is a success.
Thus when the classical picture
of world harmony broke down after being eroded by scientific theories of evolution and entropy, its naively conceived divine counterpart also vanished — quite fortunately we may say in retrospect.
Not exact matches
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world around us.
I think there will ultimately be a communication backlash, and we will disconnect more and more, and look for ways to avoid the growing sense
of daily overwhelm and try to find some kind
of harmony in a radically out
of balance
world, simply by remembering how to turn things off.
This includes
Harmony of the Seas — largest cruise ship in the
world.
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of Crazy Bitch Tea, herbal tea infusion bringing
harmony to the
world around us.
Sweet Adelines International is passionately committed to advancing the art form
of barbershop
harmony all over the
world and to changing people's lives though music and
harmony.
For someone who takes, for instance, a rigorously Darwinian line, purged
of all metaphysical postulates, there may exist a fortuitous correlation between mind and
world, but certainly no essential
harmony.
@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity
of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication
of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind
of man, that in the
world's finale, at the moment
of eternal
harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting
of all resentments, for the atonement
of all the crimes
of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»
«I love the
harmonies and mystique
of a group like Cocteau Twins and how My Bloody Valentine feels like it's from another
world.
We should continue to share the word
of the wisdom
of the Lord to every man
of this
world till the end.for in the word is the understanding
of everything created by the almigthy, the word comes with understanding
of the existance
of the holyspirit which drives us into love, peace and
harmony and great things will always be with us forever we will never be caugth on the wrong side.
From a book on Werhner Von Braun: around 1975 when illness was advancing, «His desire to see the
world of science and technology in full
harmony with the
world of religion, particularly as it is manifested in Christian faith, grew even stronger,» Ordway says (p. 272).
Ford speaks, it is true,
of a divine «temporal freedom,» but this freedom wholly derives from the divine nontemporal decision and thus amounts only to the temporal emergence
of a nontemporal freedom: «God's temporal freedom is exercised in his integrative and propositional activity, where he fits to each actual
world that gradation
of pure possibilities best suited to contribute to the maximum intensity and
harmony of his consequent physical experience» (IPQ 13:376; my emphasis).
So impressed was he by the beauty
of these laws that he wrote this prayer in his treatise Harmonices Mundi (The
harmonies of the
world): «I thank thee, Lord God our Creator, that thou hast allowed me to see the beauty in thy work
of creation.»
The purpose
of the Faith Movement, in
harmony with the Trust Deed
of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern
world, by working together to attract many to discipleship
of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice
of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development
of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.
In short, a disciple's whole view,
of the
world or
of the Body
of Christ, is to be in
harmony with Him.
At our best we do this in
harmony with the laws
of creation, enhancing the
world with our own creative developments and inventiveness.
«We don't want to dictate to the
world,» said NU chairman Said Aqil Siradj, «but we want to inspire [other countries by showing that] our concept
of Islam could maintain peace and
harmony within the diversity
of Indonesia.»
Yet, in St Thomas Aquinas's exploration
of the doctrine
of the Eucharist, the two
worlds come together with such exquisite
harmony that it appears as if they were made for each other.
Against all this, Milbank retrieves from Augustine's City
of God the priority
of peace and
harmony, with the church embodying a social theory allied to a trinitarian theology that is the true alternative to the heretical and disastrously nihilistic theologies that have dominated the postmedieval Western
world.
The
harmony of the natural
world shows that there is one benevolent Allah who created the universe and all human beings.
The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code
of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life
of harmony — to an inner
harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to
harmony between man and the natural
world, and to a
harmony between individuals as well as a
harmony with the society in which men live.
I find, on the contrary, that it is much more difficult today for the knowing person to approach God from history, from the spiritual side
of the
world, and from morals; for there we encounter the suffering and evil in the
world, which it is difficult to bring into
harmony with an all «merciful and almighty God.
Is it in
harmony with the nature
of God's
world?
Collins adopts a fourth option: «the possibility
of a richly satisfying
harmony between the scientific and spiritual
world views».
And may it honor the One who prayed that our unity would reflect the sweet
harmony of the Trinity... because the
world indeed is watching.
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
This is how there can be
harmony within all communities, even the community
of this
world.
Furthermore, he knew that «Strife is at least as real a fact in the
world as
Harmony» (AI 32), and that «the mere doctrines
of freedom, individualism, and competition, had produced a resurgence
of something very like industrial slavery at the base
of society» in the 19th century (AI 34).
The
world would take note
of what the gospel makes possible for those who confess their dis - ease with each other but still keep going, strangers locked in covenant, toward the better country
of diversity and
harmony, liberty and love.
The unique contribution a Christian ecology can make to the earth is the assertion that we can insist on a reasonable
harmony with our
world without abandoning our commitment to social justice for all members
of our unique and self - consciously alienated species.
A true assertion is measured by the resultant
harmony of the essential and conditional features
of things that make up the
world.
There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage
of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part
of the dialectical process
of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers
of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all
of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind
of universal
harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all
of our specie.The great concern
of the whole conscious and caring
world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.
Although we have a
world of laws, it is also a
world of bounty and
harmony.
The content
of a temporal occasion is its antecedent
world synthesized and somewhat transformed by a new mode
of feeling; the consequent nature
of God consists
of the temporal occasions transformed by an inclusive mode
of feeling derived from his all - embracing primordial nature, so as to be united in a conscious, infinitely wide
harmony of feeling which grows without any fading
of its members.
They share in the
world view
of their time, and their testimonies are not in perfect
harmony with one another.
Much
of that desire is God - given; before things in the
world went terribly awry, we were created to live in perfect peace and
harmony...
But whoever wants, on the other hand, really to behold and receive all truth, and would have the truth -
world overhang him as an empyrean
of stars, complex, multitudinous, striving antagonistically, yet comprehended, height above height, and deep under deep, in a boundless score
of harmony; what man soever, content with no small rote
of logic and catechism, reaches with true hunger after this, and will offer himself to the many - sided forms
of the scripture with a perfectly ingenuous and receptive spirit; he shall find his nature flooded with senses, vastnesses, and powers
of truth, such as it is even greatness to feel.
It proceeds from a unified vision
of the hierarchical
harmony of the goods for which we strive and, as a result, it is capable
of making a penetrating analysis
of real -
world situations and
of inspiring holistic, effective responses to them.
This universal
harmony continues to allow novelty in the
world; it never perishes and it remains the existential context
of God's continued relevance to the dispossessed and disinherited.
As it seeks liberation from this dimension
of its past, as it encounters feminist theology, the new consciousness
of women, blacks, third
world peoples, and their suppressed traditions, post-Holocaust Judaism as well as other religions, Christianity is transformed, becomes more authentically relational and creative, richer, more inclusive, less trivial in its
harmony.
All through the
world's history we find that the men and women who have entered into the realm
of true wisdom and power, and hence into the realm
of true peace and joy, have lived in
harmony with this Higher Power (Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite: Or Fullness
of Peace Power and Plenty.
He claimed that the solution
of cultural problems and contradictions, the necessity
of obtaining the organic unity
of humanity's
world, urgently demanded the restoration
of the lost
harmony between the highest values
of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.