Sentences with phrase «transcendent truth»

In the absence of transcendent truth, the best we can hope for is mindless cooperation.

Or is it an appeal to that longing for transcendent truth and justice that we know as religion?

Few twentieth - century intellectuals believed in transcendent truths, making Heidegger a fitting muse.

He argued that cultures move from ideational forms in which transcendent truth claims and moral norms are the organizing principles of social life, to idealistic cultures, which blend ideational and «sensate» aims, to sensate cultures, which focus exclusively on sensory perceptions and experiences.

He quotes my argument that these burghers have a quotidian morality, which is repelled by concrete wrongs but is unconcerned with transcendent truths.

It is a set of oratorical and political habits that developed in societies built around transcendent truths — religious societies.

From Magna Cart - a in 1215 through the Cromwellian revolution to the Declaration of Independence and its appeal to «Nature and Nature's God,» the champions of freedom have invoked transcendent truth in the vindication of their cause.

Even within the churches, repudiation of strong and transcendent truths seemed necessary after Auschwitz.

The problem is that citizens are unlikely to rally to faddish principles as they once did to transcendent truths.

Nor, he insists, can the undoubted achievements of modernity be sustained without reference to transcendent truth.»

Religion, by focusing the attention of the believer on the idea of transcendent truth, necessarily changes the person the believer is; which in turn changes the way the believer interacts with the world; which in turn changes political outcomes.

Science can teach us about paint, pulverized minerals, color, light, optics, and proportional harmony, but it can not explain the mystery of beauty on the finished canvas — how moral, societal, and transcendent truths can be revealed through the drama and execution of a piece of music or architecture.

For, in a world without some transcendent truth and good, where everything is just chance, how can any small part of it have any meaning at all?

Revelation does not oppress the human intellect but illuminates it so as to be able to lay hold of transcendent Truth, which it naturally seeks but can only supernaturally attain.

Most important, the church contains a more typical cross-section of people than any institution around, a human diversity which is held together in theory by commitment to a transcendent truth.

The West has jettisoned a transcendent truth above human affairs.

In all, Hannah's second volume of poetry examines unflinchingly the deep and difficult love between a mother and daughter, stares death in the face, and transforms a unique story into a series of luminous, transcendent truths.

Shonibare's gods are upset that traditional order of the world has been turned upside down and that the transcendent truths, on which the history of mankind is based, are disappearing.