Sentences with phrase «ultimate philosophical principle»
«In the great formative period of theistic philosophy, which ended with the rise of Mahometanism, after a continuance coeval with civilization, three strains of thought emerge which, amid many variations in detail, respectively fashion God in the image of an imperial ruler, God in the image of a personification of moral energy, God in the image of an ultimate philosophical principle.»
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Hence, in his striking phrase, «the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar», seeing him «in the image of an imperial ruler», «in the image of a personification of moral energy», or «in the image of an ultimate philosophical principle».
In Section I Whitehead rejects the notion that God is an imperial ruler (a divine Caesar), the personification of moral energy (a Hebrew prophet) or an ultimate philosophical principle (the unmoved mover of Aristotle).
Indeed in [E], the history of ancient thought is overviewed and perceived as having presented God in the image of an imperial ruler (Christian theology), a personification of moral energy (Hebrew thought) and an ultimate philosophical principle (Greek thought).
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While this philosophical compliment is absent in Scripture, yet present throughout much theology, it was John Calvin that made God's power the ultimate theological principle.
«Spirit» occupies the central position in Hegel's thought; it is that «ultimate principle» which, as Whitehead suggests (PR 10), is present in any philosophical system and is actual by virtue of its accidents.