Sentences with phrase «ultimate ground»

The only ultimate ground for comparison is the final result, and the only ultimate judge is whether the results accord with common sense.

Taubes makes the telling point that Tillich's «depth» of being — which is reached by the «ultimate concern» of the existing person — is not a transcendent reality lying beyond the world, but is instead the ultimate ground of the being which we now are.

Moreover, so long as self - righteousness is judged to be a moral state deriving from an isolated and autonomous individual, there lies no way to a comprehension of its ultimate ground and its universal consequences.

Thus the ultimate grounding of analogy is love.

Since, as Creator, he was the ultimate ground of every word and deed of Jesus, Jesus was to some extent an expression of God's decisions, thus an act of God.

They will not, however, reflect very much on what is the ultimate ground of this dignity, which turns the conditional into an absolute principle, namely that the «object» which makes the principle of objectivity an absolute principle is man, that is the person.

Thus the material was a function of the spiritual and, to a degree, a manifestation of it, not its ultimate ground or directive.

Language betrays, sometimes against its immediate «purpose,» its ultimate ground and reference.

And that theology is grounded in the death of God — not simply as the historical end of Christendom, but rather as the ultimate ground of Buddhism and Christianity alike.

In Islamic pantheism the phenomenal world is reduced to a mere shadow of reality, and God is regarded as the only real Being who is the ultimate ground of all that was, is, and will be.

The conception of God as the ultimate ground of all phenomenal existence had, somehow or other, to be brought into harmony with the conception of the personal God of Islam.

By the mid-eighteenth century, economic, political, or philosophical arguments that found their ultimate grounding in «the Bible alone» became rare.

For Whitehead the ultimate ground of assurance of the worthwhileness of our efforts can not lie in a future event on this planet.

But the epistemology of Cartesian dualism with its foundational purification of the mind, even in its Kantian reconstitution, is unable to establish an ultimate grounding for the human sciences.

If we say that the ultimate ground of all human hope lies in Jesus Christ, what does that mean for our life together as God's people?

According to Whitehead's cosmology, the ultimate ground of every type of physical relation, and thus the basis of any type of social relationship, be it human or otherwise, is to be derived from the generic character of experience itself, i.e., from the primacy of the subject - object relation as constituted in experience.

That is the ultimate ground of the attempt at objectivity.

In short, biopolitics leads in one direction to a consideration of life in relationship to its ultimate ground — God the Creator.

Rather, its entire meaning is existential or metaphysical, in the sense of expressing some understanding of our existence in its constant structure and in relation to its ultimate ground and end.

In its actuality salvation is enjoyment; at its acme it is ecstasy — the unrestrained joy experienced on the occasion of an acute awareness of the harmonious union of life with its surrounding community and its ultimate ground.

Since no essence grounds its existence, all affirmations of their unity imply God, the ultimate ground of knowing, in whom essence and existence are one.

Beyond all such questions, he also inquires about the constant structure of reality, of himself and the world and of their ultimate ground, of which he is always more or less clearly aware insofar as he exists as a man at all.

As the ultimate ground of order in nature and human life, moira was, at times, almost regarded as a function of the will of Zeus.

This points backward to the Spirit of Christ as the ultimate ground of communion in Christ.

Is the religious reference to an ultimate ground of meaning compatible with what science tells us about our world?

This ultimate ground of uniformity he found in the antecedent nature of God.

However otherwise conceived, the ultimate ground must be as intelligible and as orderly as the world of experience.

But if you, your tribe or mindless mother nature is the ultimate ground of your values, why does your sense of tightness function with such assuredness in your moral indictment of all people of faith?

This is the metaphysical problem of the ultimate ground of all subjectivity (159)

It requires a «reason,» an actual entity that is its ultimate ground.

If the ultimate ground of all matter is in the implicate order, as contained in the holomovement, it thus seems inevitable that what has generally been called «mind» must also have the same ultimate ground.

But it denies that the abstraction of mechanism comprehends the ultimate ground of life, and indeed it denies also that such an abstraction comprehends the ultimate ground of inanimate matter.

Dare we bet that the Christian God is dead, that the ultimate ground of guilt and resentment is broken, and that our guilty condition is created by our clinging to the wholly alien power of a now emptied transcendent realm?

In their reflective moments, many men have speculated about the ultimate ground of order and creativity in the cosmic process.11

A large part of the Christian life is the quest for the peace of mind that comes from having an ultimate ground of confidence, and this to the Christian means having one's soul stayed upon God.

This vision, however, allows us to peer into the abyss, and thus to perceive the ultimate ground of all No - saying: for guilt and resentment are rooted in the interior reality of chaos and emptiness.

This is the ultimate ground for all missionary work.

Lastly, does Wellek mean by failure of the doctrine of world harmony that philosophy has not demonstrated or proved in a strong sense the necessity of an ultimate ground of order?

Further, it is because the order pervading this cosmic epoch is contingent that it must be explained by a decision rather than being itself an ultimate ground.

That is the ultimate ground of the intrinsic and non-fungible dignity of mothers and fathers which is excellently pursued in traditional marriage and whose ennobling character Christians recognize as a concrete vehicle of grace.