Sentences with phrase «physical existence»
"Physical existence" refers to the state of actually being present in the physical world, having a body, and being able to interact with the environment using our senses, like touch, sight, and hearing. It means being alive and real, as opposed to only existing in thoughts or ideas. Full definition
They exist, independently, absolutely, though we think of that kind of existence as different from physical existence.
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Yes, of course we do — if one defines culture as all that people do beyond those things merely necessary for physical existence.
The metal constructions, on which the prints rest, constitute the sculptural bodies of a new physical existence.
All of them are working within tactile media and explore this convergence of digital and physical existence uniquely.
The shape - shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, «born in sea of information,» and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.
Just as we depend for physical existence on the forces of the natural world, so to find meaning, fulfillment and purpose in life, we depend on the culture which continues to shape us, on what we receive from one another and on what we are able to give back in return.
All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
I am loathe to believe anything now without some evidence, and whether or not there is an all pervasive spirit, I believe in spirituality in as far as it describes the state of awakening beyond one's own physical existence to a greater existence that includes us.
Love is an emotion pertaining to physical existence not to faithful ideologies, yet God threatens you with Death just because your love for your mother maybe stronger than your love for him.
Those especially responsible for consecrating the physical world are reduced to a merely physical existence, disabled by their baseness from the high life of Temple worship.
A powerful example is the effect that the evolutionary development of an organism that existed millions of years ago (such as the first organisms) has on my present physical existence.
3 Leclerc's interpretation of Whitehead in The Nature of Physical Existence draws out the implications of his earlier interpretation in Whitehead's Metaphysics: An Introductory Exposition (London: George Allen and Unwin; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958).
Schleiermacher spoke of a solidarity of the race through an evolutionary journey as we evolved from purely physical existence, bound up with survival, toward modes of spiritual existence, where our survival depends upon our extending our own sense of well - being to include the well - being of others.
The resources are in the earth and the means to use those resources are at hand to lift mankind beyond the threat of starvation, and out of the grinding condition of insecure physical existence.
Thus, whatever physical existence, if any, is attributable to soul events is easily obscured by creativity and emotion.
By emphasizing the temporality implied in the concept of paroikia the New Testament conveyed the alien nature of parish in its larger setting and the sojourning of Christian groups in the world.13 By patristic times, however, the spatial aspect of paroikia also proved useful because it designated the prolonged physical existence of Christian community in the world.
He explains more precisely what he means in his response to the critics: «in using the word faith I refer to the metaphysical framework, sharedby monotheism and science (but not by many other cultures), of a rational ground that underpins physical existence.
Ivor Leclerc has suggested a concept of how compound entities may function as «one substance,» The present interpretation is consistent with, but somewhat more specific than, Leclerc's proposal (The Nature of Physical Existence [New York: Humanities Press, 1972] esp.
However, be it an intellectually abstract construction or a metaphorical room in a spiritual sense, their significance is beyond amere physical existence.
No reference to soaking anyone in sacred solution, in person or by proxy; the obvious, common sense meaning is a transcendence of the mind over mere physical existence.
The use of Plexiglas allows the artist to achieve a degree of transparency whilst simultaneously denying its own physical existence — further intensified through the strong color saturations typical of the Cibachrome print's surface, these works seem to amalgamate foreground and background to an abstract surface.
This analysis is in line with the view of those who, like the Stoics, conceive of a natural law of moral obligation as well as of physical existence, though not with the position of legalists who suppose that an actual code of law may be an absolute statement of the right.
In the «smart city» of the future, this would be true of our physical existence, too,» frets a Guardian editorial.
And a physical existence?
Let his physical existence be erased from history so only his name remains as a symbol of evil.
You simply can't or won't face the fact that all evidence points to the facts that your conscious self is solely the product of your physical existence, that you are limited and temporary, and that there are no such things as gods, souls, heavens, hells, etc..
God is outside the realm of physical existence, for king Solomon said to the nation of Israel at the inauguration of the temple: «But will God really dwell on the earth?
Like I mentioned before, God is metaphysical and outside the realm of this physical existence and its time, and He is not subject to them.
@Vic: «Like I mentioned before, God is metaphysical and outside the realm of this physical existence and its time, and He is not subject to them.»
(Rev 19:13) Though God is not subject to time or decay, living forever (Ps 90:2), and is outside the realm of physical existence, he «stoops down to look on heaven and earth.»
1On page 272 of his excellent book, The Nature of Physical Existence (London: George Allen and Unwin; New York: Humanities Press, 1972), Leclerc quotes from Science and the Modern World in support of his interpretation of Whitehead.
In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).
I see existence as spiritual going through a physical experience while you see a physical existence with insignificant or no spiritual attributes.
Temple ritual enabled Jews to redeem their physical existence, rather than denying it in romantic Gnosticism.
He has a body, and it is in and through this body that his character must be developed, his physical existence supporting and standing as a pledge for the reality of his rational and spiritual commitments.
Man does not of course live by bread alone; he merely continues his physical existence with some concomitant mental phenomena.
But I can point to the universal experience of all humans who have a yearning for something beyond our physical existence — for ultimate purpose, value and meaning.
He would argue that Leclerc's notion of «physical existence» applies not only to our more typical notion of a molecule of water, or of sugar, or of hemoglobin (all of similar type), but also to examples of crystals, which are markedly different, and to systems of chemical reaction which persist far from equilibrium.