Sentences with phrase «same kind of existence»

Everything that is actual participates in the same kind of existence, what might be called the essence or nature of actuality.

Not exact matches

The same theory suggests that particles can flit in and out of existence in a kind of formless matter, even in empty space.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

There can be a virtuous kind of dullness of heart; a tight - lipped, efficient, decent, and unimaginative refusal to let facts be facts or, rather, a so contented existence within one's chosen and familiar world of fact that equally obvious but unexpected facts are dismissed with the same brisk impatience as a good mechanic reveals when a bumbling apprentice hands him a wrench when he needs the pliers.

And surely it is this kind of attraction, the necessary condition of our unity, which must be linked at its root with the radiations of some ultimate Center (at once transcendent and immanent) of psychic congregation: the same Center as that whose existence, opening for human endeavor a door to the Irreversible, seems indispensable (the supreme condition of the future!)

They are both intellectual disciplines dealing with the deepest questions of human existence, and when they were being pursued by men of Christian convictions, who were asking the same kind of questions, they were not easy to separate.

Many Americans today evidence the same kind of fatalism — that deterioration of their quality of life is somehow inevitable, a given part of existence, and that the only solution is to get as much security as possible before it is too late.

The same kind of evidence that believers have for the existence of Abraham's God.

True, it tends to ask rather different questions, such as those concerning the understanding of existence implicit in Jesus» teaching, but its work is still based on exactly the same kind of historical - critical methodology as that used by Bultmann or Jeremias.