Sentences with phrase «ultimate principle»

On the other hand, a sign that a truly ultimate principle of explanation has been reached would consist in showing how this principle is capable of unifying the diverse aspects of experience.
«It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which arc the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion.
Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.
Not only is this disassociation apparent but it seems to leave theology particularly exposed; for while the metaphysician may be criticised for paying insufficient attention to empirical enquiry, and the natural scientist too little to abstract argument about ultimate principles, at least both appear to be directed towards describing the structure of things: metaphysical and natural, respectively.
Whitehead comes down clearly on the side of Dewey's mathematical model when he is concerned with the «ultimate principles of existence which express the necessary connections within the flux» (ESP 123).
Creativity however is not an actual entity, but the «ultimate principle» (PR 31, 47).
It is the ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively.
This process of creativity is, as we have seen, one of the ultimate principles in his scheme of thought.
He participates ecstatically in the ultimate principle of the universe.
Moreover, man intuits this ultimate principle to be unmoved and unmoving.
The complete statement reads: «The historic process of the world, which requires the genetic - functional interpretation, also requires for its understanding some insight into those ultimate principles of existence which express the necessary connections Within the flux» (ESP 123).
Hence the principle of relativity may be said to be an ultimate principle expressing the general condition of plurality.
Thus, the «creativity» of the Category of the Ultimate is analyzable in terms of the principle of process, which is therefore an ultimate principle in Whitehead's metaphysics.
He says,» «Creativity»... is that ultimate principle by which the many... become the one actual occasion...» (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.
Opponents preferred to debate means and timing rather than ultimate principles.
He chose what he conceived to be the highest thing in the universe, creativity, and made it the ultimate principle in the nature of things.
It is in the nature of things to be self - creative because according to Whitehead, creativity is the ultimate principle.
More specifically, the question comes down to how well a civilized society exemplifies the ultimate principles and derivative notions of Whitehead's metaphysical scheme.
Looking at these passages it is clear that the authors were investigating fundamental questions about the nature of reality, and seeking for ultimate principles that would explain its existence and nature.
While matter serves as the ultimate principle of continuity in substantial change - e.g., the form of grass is replaced by the form of the cow digesting it but the material component of grass subsists under the form beefsteak - matter is not ultimately intelligible because it can not be grasped in universal concepts.
... strange reconciliation of justice and mercy, each somehow an ultimate principle of value, but... the single aim at one primary good, which is that the creatures should enjoy rich harmonies of living, and pour this richness into the one ultimate receptacle of all achievement, the life of God.
In its place is creativity, which is ranked with actual entities and eternal objects coequally as an ultimate principle.
The highest good is the ultimate principle of manifesting character and loving people.
This third position postulates an ultimate principle of order from which emanates the forms of order into which the occasions of experience making up the physical universe are patterned.
It is a disguise for a more fundamental, perennial controversy, whether the idea of an ultimate principle of order (God) can be reconciled with human freedom and the world's autonomy and indeterminacy.
As Charles Hartshorne has suggested, it may be that feeling of feeling is an ultimate principle, applicable to deity and every other singular actuality.
It is the ultimate principle by which the multiplicity of relevant data become one actual occasion, illustrating the fact that it is the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.
In section I, we have seen that Hartshorne, like Mill, affirms as an ultimate principle the maximization of intense, harmonious experience.
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