Sentences with phrase «purposive existence»

Man's purposive existence may express itself in all sorts of hidden ways and under many odd names.

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He calls the gene «selfish», in the sense of blind and impersonal, but in doing this he is actually positing a law of purposive survival which pertains to the gene as a unit of existence.

In addition, Daly pointed toward the encouraging character of Whitehead's denial of the duality of purposive human existence and non-purposive nature (BGF 189).

For that it was necessary to establish that the individual entities of existence are themselves of such a nature that they could be responsive to influences that can be called purposive.