Sentences with phrase «other orders of nature»

Man is ontologically no more or less real than any other kind of complex, and human orders are continuous with other orders of nature.

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This means, essentially, that if a woman announces herself to be a lesbian, this means that she must be deemed to have been conceived that way by the proper, ordered processes of nature in such a way as to want to be sexually intimate with other women.
In this context he defines the sin of contraception as to «subordinate the primary purpose potential of the sexual function and organs to secondary purposes of the sexual act, this subordinationunderstood of a physical ordering of nature»; «the primary end intrinsic to the physical nature of the act [may not be] subordinated to other purposes».
Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.
On the other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience, is made problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.
Brightman's three stages in Personality and Religion are reminiscent of Descartes» attempt in the Meditations to restore our knowledge of the world on the basis of the cogito, but there the order is self, God, other minds, and finally nature.
While the other main texts on the objective lure stem from an earlier chapter on «The Order of Nature» (II.3 C), closer scrutiny suggests that they belong to a single insertion, made during the transitional period (C +) before Whitehead reconceived concrescence in terms of the prehension of past occasions.8
The executive order seemed especially peculiar when juxtaposed with other stories on nature's inherent «unfairness,» such as a winter of record snowfall and the January earthquake in Los Angeles.
The religious group is characterized by the nature and order of the basic relationships of its members: in the first place, that of each member to the numen; in the second place that of the members to each other.
God is still that supreme reality who on the one hand maintains order and provides novelty and on the other hand through the process of nature and history secures ends that are incorporated into the divine self (in the divine «consequent nature,» as process thinkers would say), and thus validates and vindicates what is done in the world.
It [the realism] arises from a conviction that there is no mere analogy, but an inward affinity, between the natural order and the spiritual order; or as we might put it in the language of the parables themselves, the Kingdom of God is intrinsically like the process of nature and of the daily life of men... Since nature and supernature are one order, you can take any part of that order and find in it illumination for other parts This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables... 132
If it does so, it will reverse the trend of Pietism, Revivalism, and other similar movements, but it will follow them in their indifference toward denominationalism (cf. World Council of Churches, Commission on Faith and Order, The Nature of the Church, 1952).
His doctrine of two separate substances, extended matter and thinking mind, each sort of substance requiring, with God bracketed out of the picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively human being, out of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task of trying to figure out how a mind outside of nature, a mind not of nature, could ever really come to know nature.
He points out that in between the material on the one hand and the mental on the other «there lie the concepts of life, organism, function, instantaneous reality, interaction, order of nature, which collectively form the Achilles» heel of the whole system» (84).
Whitehead, on the other hand, stands at the forefront of a movement that was destined to debunk absolutes in both philosophy and science, in order to grasp the nature of reality with more subtle and flexible intellectual tools.
Typically, those who defend the family on natural - law grounds are happy to further demonstrate the compatibility of the nature - based approach with a supernatural one, wherein the authority of the traditional family results from the imposition of sacred order upon the natural substrate or raw material of biological necessity on the one hand and possibility on the other.
And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?
One rather begins with the Creator and the order of creation («Nature and Nature's God»)- in the case of the Founders, the biblical God, even if for Jefferson and a few others attenuated by Enlightenment rationalism - from which understanding certain truths are established as self - evident.
The implications of the constitutive relationality affirmed in CiV are stunning: no relations taken up by human beings in the course of their lives are purely contractual, -LSB-...] freedom is an act of choice only as already embedded in an order of naturally given relations (cf. 68) to God, family, others, and nature.
Others again love the Usus Antiquior because it is, quite rightly, perceived to express the nature of the Mass as the Sacrifice of Redemption with a highly developed sense of ordered reverence and humble adoration.
But in order to do this he finds it sufficient to attribute to physical nature apart from our experiences a remarkably limited class of properties: geometrical (spatio - temporal) quantities and patterns and ways in which changes in the quantities and patterns in one process cause changes in the quantities and patterns of other processes.
Others are less sanguine about the capacity of reductionist physics to so explain the order of nature.
The one, presumably for good reasons, respects a rhythm inherent in nature; the other, let us presume for equally good reasons, uses technology to interfere with the order of nature.
Others will prefer to remain on less speculative ground in merely affirming the astounding fact of order and in recognizing this as a primary datum in the nature of things.
Man's responsibility in this regard must be exercised in and with varying degrees of deference to the external moral (and natural) orders he inherits in virtue of his past and present relationships with God, other individuals, groups, nature, history, culture, and a variety of moral communities.
There is no single memorial statue for the 200 thousand Korean women who died for the cause of the so - called justice and peace of the world.2 It is fair and essential to remember that many Christians supported these historical sins of imperialism, these and other cruelties by which imperialistic colonialism systematically destroyed the created order of nature, men, and women in the Korean peninsula.
(And God knows that he — along with the limitations provided by the other data from which a new entity originates — can bring about the repetition of certain abstract characteristics, or there would be no «order of nature.»)
Thus, in an important essay, he argues that «freedom requires indeterminism and universal causality «56 He freely admits that there is an element of regularity and order in nature which may be partially described in the statistical laws of science; but he also confesses his inability to give a rational explanation (other than the immanence of God) of why, in a world of freedom, we have an orderly cosmos instead of sheer chaos.57
On the other hand, it would be overly simple to claim the Hebrew Scriptures in support of our modern study of animal life or the work of environmental conservation, since it is clear that neither priest not prophet thought the order of nature as we now see it to reflect God's intentions, either original or ultimate, for it.
Consequently, one is left with no clear answer as to the order in which events present themselves to God, and the problem is compounded by the stipulation that each actual occasion prehends God and thus has access to his awareness of other actual occasions (God's «consequent nature»).
I do not believe Whitehead means this only as history of the origins of modern science, for the philosophy of organism included not only harmony, but rhythm, balance, series, progress — all modes of order are affirmed of nature and «set before us as ideals» (SMW 28, extended from harmony and progress to other modes of order).
I believe a reading of Adventures of Ideas and the other works would justify saying there can be «no living [art, morality, religion and science] unless there is a widespread instinctive conviction in the existence of an Order of Things, and, in particular, of an Order of Nature» (SMW 5).
In 1541, the Hessian Superintendents sent the following petition to the Landgrave Philip: «In view of the fact that there are current many complaints about parsons who scandalize people by their excessive drinking and other disgraceful vices and yet remain unpunished as well as unreformed, we suggest that the jail at the cloister of Spisskoppel be restored and that the parsons who persist in their vices be given the choice either to leave their parishes or to be confined in this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishment.
Given that only certain sweeteners can be listed as «sugar» on the ingredients list, in order to comply with the Food Standards Code, manufacturers must list other types of sweeteners with the «name that describes the true nature of the ingredient».
(3) Since research grants by their nature are competitive, the present shortage of research grant funding results in the very best applicants being fully funded, but most of the others are out of luck; we need more money in order to support all our dedicated university scientists!
Introducing friends to others who will add depth and quality to their life experience brings me joy; I strive to do the same in yoga class, creating an environment where students can drop below the layers of habit and distraction in order to connect more fully with who they really are and with their more expansive nature.
Rather, he justified the importance of recognizing our common origin with animal life by emphasizing that we and all other animal life must obey the same laws of nature in order to thrive.
Due to the energetic nature of flower essences, it is important to not let the glass dropper touch anything other than the flower essence itself in order to keep the essence as potent as possible.
The custom nature of our dresses means our cancellation and Return Policy is stricter than other items, so it's important to order carefully.
It's our way to offer marriage - minded South African singles a means of finding others who are sick of the fly - by - night nature of modern dating — and who are ready to go the extra mile in order to find lasting love and true compatibility.
Not at all, because the ending, in admirable 18th century style, tidies all loose ends, restores order to the kingdom, and allows everyone to live happily ever after, although it is in the nature of things that some will live happier than others.
(a) Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights secured by this title, and that the pattern or practice is of such a nature and is intended to deny the full exercise of the rights herein described, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States by filing with it a complaint (1) signed by him (or in his absence the Acting Attorney General), (2) setting forth facts pertaining to such pattern or practice, and (3) requesting such preventive relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other order against the person or persons responsible for such pattern or practice, as he deems necessary to insure the full enjoyment of the rights herein described.
(a) Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights secured by this title, and that the pattern or practice is of such a nature and is intended to deny the full exercise of the rights herein described, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States by filing with it a complaint (1) signed by him (or in his absence the Acting Attorney General), (2) setting forth facts pertaining to such pattern or practice, and (3) requesting such relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other order against the person or persons responsible for such pattern or practice, as he deems necessary to insure the full enjoyment of the rights herein described.
The Los Angeles Auto Show is not very far away as it will begin in a couple of weeks but until then Subaru may reveal other teasers or details in order to clarify the nature and the goals of the teased concept.
So for example, if you made a «coloring book for adults» that contains «pictures of nature» and is meant to help with «relaxation and meditation», it would be a good idea to include these words and other closely related search terms in your book's title as well as throughout your sales page in order to attract qualified traffic.
(a) any fine, penalty, restitution order or other order similar in nature to a fine, penalty or restitution order, imposed by a court in respect of an offence, or any debt arising out of a recognizance or bail;
As a result of the unique and personal nature of the Data, in addition to all other remedies available, Reliance Capital Asset Management Limited and its respective executives will be entitled to seek injunctive and extraordinary relief in a court of competent jurisdiction in order to enforce my / our obligations hereunder.
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