Sentences with phrase «ultimate causes»

Through a series of interviews with business leaders, politicians, economic experts and journalists, this film charts the history and ultimate cause of the economic crisis.

Although he is appreciative of modern drugs and surgeries, Lieberman considers them «Band - Aids,» equivalent to eyeglasses or arch supports, because they don't address ultimate causes or the possibility of prevention.

First, both reactions have the same ultimate cause: the immune system's overreaction to apparently harmless food.

There is a logical problem here with using a model to attribute deaths from cause A to ultimate cause B. By virtue of being directly caused by A, we can not say empirically, that B was responsible for any particular death.

If the ultimate cause of the problem was distortion from economic incentives, you have to ask yourself, «What is the economic incentive and how can we address it to reduce or eliminate it?»

Hopefully, our decisions this week will serve this ultimate cause.

The fallout from the Lac - Mégantic tragedy will depend on what we learn about the ultimate causes and, as Paul Wells wrote here, that's a long way off.

Even though technically it was water damage that was the first cause, insurers view your failure to remove the towels as the ultimate cause.

Thomas thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions about the ultimate cause of existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.

When Gutting asks about the broader question of the need to explain existence itself, to find some ultimate cause of all that is, Maudlin first notes that such a cause would be, from a believer's point of view, a weak claim, not a recognition of the kind of Creator theism posits.

«Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality «A retreat to mysticism is the first refuge of the cornered fool.

4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality — not necessarily true, there are plenty of completely physical hypotheses that do not require supernatural intervention; none are of course «proven» but they rest on much more solid evidence than your supernatural being does

The Cardinal's main point, is that God is the ultimate cause of what is and what occurs in the material universe.

Every created agent is limited to bringing about a change in form only (a sheep can transform grass into its own body matter by digestion), but God — as the ultimate cause of all being — can surely bring about changes at the level of being: converting one entire substance into another.

He is not the ultimate cause of all things, for there are other things just as ultimate as he.

a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

The spirit / word / thought that made the actualization of Jesus possible is not just a supreme microcosmic example, but indeed to be identified with the SP, God - for - us, as the ultimate cause of the entire creation.

Hence there must be an uncaused Cause, the ultimate Cause of all the events that proceed from it.

What is progressive in religion does not, for Marx, derive from some inherent virtue in the religious mode of consciousness, but rather from the fact that the economic forces which are the ultimate causes of the religious mentality, are entering a progressive stage.

He has instead made a perfect universe in which His laws are precisely obeyed, in and through which He, as the ultimate cause and the law - giver, controls and directs material and biological evolution.

At the level of subordinate, mutable, material causes, then, there is plenty of room for the unintended, though always because there are already definite purposes in play; but from the vantage of the ultimate Cause, who knows and wills all that has being, motion, or life in any way, there is no such thing as chance.

Thus, God's choice of the sinner, not the sinner's choice of Christ, is the ultimate cause of salvation.

Efficient causes — the sculptor who transforms a block of marble into a statue of Athena — exist as separate from God but since they are contingent, they too require God as their ultimate cause.

The traditional assertion that the will of God is the ultimate cause of every event can not be preserved without qualification, because a will which allows no effective power to any other can not be a loving will.

If the ultimate cause of Man's exploitation and alienation is selfishness, the deepest reason for voluntary poverty is love of neighbour.»

That medieval theologian distinguished between the primary or ultimate cause, God, and the secondary or mediate cause, natural phenomena.

Dawkins is so steeped in the modern Western mindset of reductionism that he thinks that by searching for the simplest substrate to matter he will find the ultimate cause of its existence.

Within the terms of its own reference as an enquiry into material things, experimental science can not address the question of the ultimate cause of the universe.

First, we must show that men are free, so that the ultimate cause of their actions can not be placed outside their own self - determination.

The Protestant Reformation was the ultimate cause of political revolution» from the French Revolution of 1789 to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the victory of Bolshevism.

Hence God is the ultimate cause of sinful acts as well as virtuous ones.

Not only does extreme amounts of sunlight damage the skin, leaving you looking years older than your age, but it can also be the ultimate cause of skin cancer that is a going concern.

While the team determined the conch population outbreak to be the proximal cause of oyster loss, it is the salinity of the water spurred by the multi-year drought that is the ultimate cause, because that is what led to a spike in the carnivorous conch population.