Sentences with phrase «perfect immutability»
From Plato, who defined time as a moving (i.e., imperfect) image of eternity, down to St. Thomas, who stressed the perfect immutability of his Supreme Being in terms indistinguishable from the language of the Eleatic school, we can trace the same persistent theme — a metaphysical dichotomy of Being and Becoming, of perfection and imperfection, of the timeless and the temporal realms.
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Thus the young man aspires for the ideal of perfect immunity to external control, to a sort of immutability with regard to the wishes of others.