Sentences with phrase «own ultimate object»

On the theological level, it was now assumed that despite Christian worship of the Trinity, the ultimate object of Christian worship and allegiance is the God who is creator of heaven and earth.

This means that for Whitehead perception is not mediated by internal representatives of its ultimate objects but is directly of those ultimate objects themselves.

By and large the Eastern religions can be distinguished from Western religions specifically by their emphasis upon the impersonality of the ultimate Object of religious devotion.

The ultimate object of man wherein lies his greatest happiness in future life is to gain knowledge of the realities of things so far as his nature allows, and do what is incumbent upon him.

The confusion between part and whole is not to be avoided by denying the reality of the parts but only by the acceptance of diversity and limitation and the corollary recognition that all the parts are equally related in the whole to the ultimate object of the Church.

In those various churches without a God which to - day are spreading through the world under the name of ethical societies, we have a similar worship of the abstract divine, the moral law believed in as an ultimate object.

Judaism is a national life, a life which the national religion and human ethical principles (the ultimate object of every religion) embrace without engulfing.

In actual practice we constantly confuse this ultimate Object of our loyalty and love with more proximate and relative objects.

Religion demands existential involvement of the whole person; it asks about the ultimate objects of man's trust and loyalty.

Mill's first claim that happiness is the ultimate object of all desire seems very questionable, based as it is on psychological evidence which is both suspect in itself and too narrow in scope to establish his conclusion.

Then He became the ultimate object lesson by giving those same hands and feet as nail - platforms.

While it is true, as has been said before, that theology requires personal involvement on the part of its students, the fact can not be ignored that in the activity of the intellect the ultimate objects and subjects of love, faith and hope must be set somewhat at the fringe of awareness.

The presence in the theological community of the ultimate objects or subjects of study, like its engagement in serving the ultimate purpose of the Church, means that theological students are personally involved in their work to an unusual degree.

Now, Creasy must pick off a succession of corrupt cops and criminals to reach his ultimate object of vengeance.

A less narrow concept of school quality (currently limited to short - term gains in test scores alone) is essential to refocus the movement on its ultimate object: setting children on a path for lives of self - sufficiency, upward mobility, and engaged citizenship.

A Q by Aston Martin car is the embodiment of creativity and innovation, the ultimate object on which you can express your personal style - to whatever degree.

A Q by Aston Martin car is the embodiment of creativity and innovation, the ultimate object on which you can express your personal style - offering a world of limitless possibilities, bound only by your imagination.

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Petronas was hoping to cut its contribution to 9 billion ringgit ($ 2.13 billion) next year, from an estimated 26 billion ringgit this year, amid a sharp earnings drop, but the government objected and the ultimate amount may come in around 18 billion ringgit, Wiranto said, noting this raises questions on revenue sustainability.

Accounts of the object world are theories of the mind, and ultimate accounts of the physical describe universal properties of mind.

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

Clearly he retained throughout his life the sense that the ultimate fact is the process itself of which God, the eternal objects, and the temporal occasions are all explanatory.

Idolatry is making primary and central — treating as the object of ultimate devotion — something unworthy of that status, something other than God.

«His ultimate explanation is that each factual entity] in its initial phase prehends God,» as it must do, because only through the mediation of the divine nature is there an «envisagement of the entire multiplicity of eternal objects» (cf. IMW 269).

Therefore God as prime mover, object of desire, and ultimate final cause must include within himself the system of formal causes, the logical structure of the cosmos, particularly if he is to be «thought thinking itself.»

They will not, however, reflect very much on what is the ultimate ground of this dignity, which turns the conditional into an absolute principle, namely that the «object» which makes the principle of objectivity an absolute principle is man, that is the person.

The sacrament stimulates a value response to an object other than itself — in this sense being a kind of instrumental value — by virtue of a three - way congruence of some sort involving person, sacrament, an ultimate faith - object.

Looked at that way, the essential content of revelation, or perhaps the very nature of God (whatever is the ultimate «subject matter» or «object» of the inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry as «theology.»

A key consequence of thus mistaking a partial abstraction for an ultimate explanation is that various dualisms are thereby created: subject - object, primary - secondary qualities, extended substance - mental substance, etc..

I don't object to God and the Bible being the ultimate authority in my life, just the incorporated church that has changed the facts about both of the above.

The ultimate elements of the universe, thus appropriated, are the already - constituted actual entities, and the eternal objects.

Intercession forces supplicants to take those nearest and dearest, the beleaguered objects of their worry, and to see them at a distance and in a strange light, and to recognize that their ultimate well - being does not depend upon their own efforts to contrive their good.

Religious groups satisfy the need for «an object of devotion,» or what Tillich calls «the dimension of ultimate concern.»

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

It also says that electrons and protons are societies, but it gives no indication as to whether they are spatially thick, structured societies (my view) or enduring objects (Cobb's view) except where Whitehead speculates about the dimly discerned «yet more ultimate actual entities — this could be taken to imply that electrons and protons are complex, made up of distinct types of subordinate entities, and this would support my claim that electrons and protons are structured societies.

Since government is necessarily finite and fallible, it can not define the object of ultimate loyalty.

Whatever its object, ultimate concern is a total perspective involving the whole person and requiring his unreserved allegiance.

Tillich suggests several criteria for evaluating religious symbols, in addition to this capacity for self - negation.30 A symbol of the ultimate must transcend the subject - object division, for the characteristics of being - itself are equally present in human life and beyond it; the symbol must express the basic unity of all things, of which man is aware in the depths of his own being.

With this method, we have not simply done away with linguistic clutter, we have made the positive assertion that the ultimate «simple» or constituents of things experienced are neither the objects of common sense nor the «scientific» objects of physical theory (electrons, quarks, and the like).

However the object of our ultimate desire will determine whether the desires of the human heart give us life or give us death.

5 This is a remarkable anticipation of Whitehead's view in Process and Reality that God's primordial ordering of the world's possibilities (the eternal objects) is the ultimate source of novelty in an emergent universe, except that Thornton understands these possibilities to be everlasting rather than timeless.6 This reification of what for Whitehead is purely possible, needing concrete embodiment in the actual world, leads Thornton to conceive of the eternal order as absolutely actual in its unchangeableness, identical with God.

Third, in our situation today, the specific requirements of these two criteria are such that no theology can be adequate unless it makes the assertion of the experience of God, by which I mean that it must assert, in some formulation or other, that the strictly ultimate reality termed «God» is the object as well as the subject of experience, and this in relation to others as well as to self.

He can be less preoccupied with his reputation if it is not the object of his ultimate concern.

To argue by inference from effect to Cause, from the passive object to the active Subject of change, from transitory, contingent being to a Being who is necessary and eternal, from nature's striving after perfection to a Perfection which is ultimate, from the order observable in creation to a creative Mind - all that (I shall be told) is to approach the great Riddle from one side, and that the most difficult.

Finally, however, it may be objected that this ultimate consummation of all things is fine for God, but has no value for us.

Its claim is that the only Object worthy of man's worship and adequate to serve as the center of his life of devotion is the Reality that is ultimate — God Himself.

It is only Reality, the ultimate and final Reality of God, which is a safe object of love.

Likewise, an electron or a proton would be an enduring object by virtue of the fact that, besides the «yet more ultimate actual entities» within the electronic or protonic society (PR 139), the «electronic and protonic actual entities» (PR 139) are regnant occasions within the society in which they are members.

In its place is creativity, which is ranked with actual entities and eternal objects coequally as an ultimate principle.

To the extent that the four ultimate elements of his system (actual occasions, God, eternal objects, and creativity) are arbitrarily disconnected, to that extent some measure of incoherence remains in Whitehead's own philosophy.

There is no sense here, either felt or known, of an ultimate dichotomy between subject and object, because no subject appears here which is only subject, and no object which is only object.