Sentences with phrase «rests upon the nature»

The distinction among the three kinds rests upon the nature of the objects valued — ideas in the first case, sense data in the second, and acts in the third.

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Instead of considering my condition a frustration of life, I could, by the gnostic negotiation, work to see the inherently miraculous nature of my state, and rest upon its indication of being in God.

Since all prayer rests back upon our understanding of the nature of God and his relation to the world, we must now look at this more directly.

By its very nature, a logical argument can not justify the premises upon which it rests.

To a modernist, who by definition relies only upon human authority, natural law in the Thomistic sense is no longer supportable because it would have to rest upon the unacceptable premise that nature was supernaturally created.

According to Judge Richard Posner, the very idea of natural law rests upon a premodern picture of nature that science has discredited.

Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

What is therefore necessary, according to Cobb, is a Christian natural theology: a coherent statement about the nature of reality that recognizes its interpretation of the facts to be decisively conditioned by the Christian tradition, yet remains content to rest its case upon purely philosophical criteria of truth.124 Cobb offers such a statement in his important book, A Christian Natural Theology.

Christian concludes that the continuity of nature ultimately rests upon this two - way functioning of eternal objects.

The moral obligation for the advancement of health thus rests upon the duty of becoming integral persons, with the human powers fully operating and cooperating in accord with their proper natures.

It is God who unites, otherwise the definitively binding nature of the act would rest upon a desire that is yes, natural, but also impossible to achieve.

Change is intelligible and is based upon natures, principles of activity and rest whose motion can be predicted, at least «for the most part».

This faith, which sees Jesus as revelation of God in action in history, rests upon the commitment of men to the life which the story unfolds, or rather, to the person of Jesus himself — grasped in the depths of each man s existence as being what Whitehead said it was: «the revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world».

The schools of sexual dissent, — and permissiveness — rest upon the presumption that the present state of human nature is natural to man, and therefore good.

The English are slightly reserved by nature and their social culture rests upon politeness, good manners and a sense of fair play.

But detailed information about the nature of the bed upon which the ice sheet rests has been less forthcoming, and observations of the ocean waters at the periphery [Jacobs et al., 1996] and beneath have been challenging to acquire.

It is nowhere more clearly expressed than in the judgment of Lord Justice Oliver in Cutts v Head [1984] Ch 290, [1984] 1 All ER 597: «That the rule rests, at least in part, upon public policy is clear from many authorities, and the convenient starting point of the inquiry is the nature of the underlying policy.