Sentences with phrase «physical nature of our existence»

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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.

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).

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.nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

Presented to the Symposium «Whitehead's Metaphysics» Canadian Philosophical Association, UPET, 24 May 1992 Twenty years ago this year, Ivor Leclerc published The Nature of Physical Existence (NPE).

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

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.

William Gallagher, PS 4:263 - 74 (1974), comments on the above discussion, as does Lewis S. Ford, PS 3:104 - 18 (1973), in a review of a relevant book by Ivor Leclerc, The Nature of Physical Existence (New York; Humanities Press, 1972).

However, Leclerc is an original thinker in his own right, and in The Nature of Physical Existence he criticizes Whitehead in important ways, especially for what he sees as a remaining tendency to reductionism.

Professor Ford has brought to my attention the recent discussion of Newton's theory in Ivor Leclerc's book, The Nature of Physical Existence (New York.

In my The Nature of Physical Existence (Humanities Press; 1972), ch.

Ivor Leclerc's theory of the unity of compound substances in The Nature of Physical Existence may furnish us with an important clue, if we liken the many feelings of an incomplete phase with the many component elements of a compound substance.

This alternative way, one which I have followed in my The Nature of Physical Existence (Allen & Unwin, in the Muirhead Library of Philosophy, 1972), is to seek to recover the problematic of the philosophy of nature though a study of the philosophy of nature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vigNature of Physical Existence (Allen & Unwin, in the Muirhead Library of Philosophy, 1972), is to seek to recover the problematic of the philosophy of nature though a study of the philosophy of nature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vignature though a study of the philosophy of nature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vignature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vigorous.

Leclerc thinks it vital for any sound metaphysics that it ground itself on a proper understanding of the nature of physical existence.

31As is evinced by the following quotations from Nobo: «Moreover, each completed stage in the supersessional development of God's consequent nature is causally objectifiable because it constitutes a complete physical synthesis produced by the consequent creative activity out of all the attained actualities already in existence relative to the beginning of that stage of the divine development (PR 523 - 524)»; its continuation: «In this account, the primordial nature and each already completed stage of the consequent nature represent each a specific, or relative, satisfaction of the divine concrescence.

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.

The extraordinary phenomenon of the sustained birth of modern science in Western culture, however, is linked with meticulous investigation to the cultural influence of monotheism and the Christian doctrine of creation exnihilo - a doctrine which both upheld the contingent, linear development of creation and its rationality through the existence of the physical laws of nature, or «secondary causes», without thereby undermining God's omnipotence.

«The ability to communicate through language is unique to human beings, and the existence of fully functional, complex languages in a different physical modality makes sign languages a natural laboratory for investigating the nature of human language and cognition in our species,» concluded Prof. Sandler.

My intent is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, offering a context for reflecting about the vulnerability of our physical existences.

Tamara said: «My intention is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, reflecting the vulnerability of our physical existences.»

«States of Being» currently on view at Torrance Art Museum examines the nature of existence not so much as a physical inevitability, but more as...

In exposing the underlying mechanisms of natural phenomena, Nicolai sensitizes the viewer to both the invisible laws that govern physical existence and the vast, unknowable mystery of nature.