Sentences with phrase «ultimate principles of»

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).

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).

The «creative advance» which Whitehead says is «the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates» (PR 32) is a conception which, in its first version, is called «passage.»

The Tao, the ultimate principle of reality, is said to exercise its influence on nature and man not by active causation but by wu - wei, an untranslatable term for «active inaction» or, as I would prefer, «effective non-interference» or «non-interfering effectiveness.»

He participates ecstatically in the ultimate principle of the universe.

The universe's creative advance is the application of... [the] ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates» (PR 32).

At the core of the view of Human being underlying paideia and the «Athens» model is the view that the characteristic defining human being is the capacity of reason in intuitive, cognitive judgment to apprehend the ultimate principle of being and of value — that is, God.

... 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.

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.

On the other hand, it satisfies the expectation, given Whitehead's claim of creativity to be the ultimate principle of becoming (PR 31), that a magnification of the process of becoming ought to afford insight in this respect.

Not exact matches

The principle of ultimate responsibility doesn't just apply to CEOs and other top - tier leaders: it regularly gets applied to leaders at all levels.

But an even more crucial premise is Swinburne's version of the principle of sufficient reason: «The human quest for explanation inevitably and rightly seeks for the ultimate explanation of everything observable.»

The constituent occasions, of course, in line with Whitehead's ontological principle (PR 19/28), provide the ultimate reason (s) why the society exists with a certain structure at any given moment.

By the phrase «universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact» Whitehead means that creativity is the primary metaphysical principle.

My demand is, that the ultimate arbitrariness of matter of fact from which our formulation starts should disclose the same general principles of reality, which we dimly discern as stretching away into regions beyond our explicit powers of discernment.»

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

The general principle is that the ultimate test of every commitment to ideals takes place at the bodily level, whether in the application of force by the governing powers or in the suffering of those who actively or passively resist the prevailing political order.

Finally, there is recognized as the underlying metaphysical principle of the universe the ultimate activity, the sheer ongoingness of nature, which Whitehead now calls creativity.

If as I have tried to show, the Whiteheadian God is not entirely adequate to the ultimate role required of God, is this the cue for developing a wholly naturalist cosmology which excludes, in principle, all traces of the divine?

This process of creativity is, as we have seen, one of the ultimate principles in his scheme of thought.

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.

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.

«35 Whitehead's position here opposes several strains of thought combined in traditional theism: the divine Caesars that lead to fashioning God in the image of an imperial ruler; the Hebrew prophets that lead to fashioning God in the image of moral energy; and Aristotle's «unmoved mover» that leads to the fashioning of God in the image of an ultimate metaphysical principle.

In this sense God is the ultimate irrationality: the principle of limitation and the ground of rationality.

When he says creativity «is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively» (Process 21), is he saying the members of the multiplicity (that an actual entity prehends) are parts of one whole as it begins its concrescence, or is he saying they do not become parts of a whole until the actual entity reaches its satisfaction?

Thus, the principle of creativity is ultimate in one sense, and the principle of relativity is basic in another; thus, too, what is indefinable in one notion is presupposed by, or is relevant to, what is indefinable in the other.

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).

The contradiction is not immediately obvious in Whitehead's characterization of creativity as «that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively» (PR 31).

Their ultimate goal, the kingdom of God, is after all a society, and their supreme moral principle, love, is a decidedly social virtue.

As given in this formulation, the ultimate meaning of the principle is far from clear.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

Its ultimate objective is the creation of an open and integrated international order based on the principles of democratic capitalism, with the United States as the ultimate guarantor of order and enforcer of norms.

In contrast to this «rigid method of empiricism,» imagination will exercise an essential role in the search for the ultimate first principles.

Finally, the principle of process is again the reason why Whitehead, in still another place, says: «The point to be noticed is that the actual entity, in a state of process during which it is not fully definite, determines its own ultimate definiteness» (PR 390).

The central preoccupation of the philosopher should therefore be the discovery and accurate description of those ultimate generalities which explain all actual entities Whereas the special sciences seek to uncover the explanatory principles which govern one particular genus of entities, metaphysical inquiry seeks to uncover truly universal principles which apply to all actual entities insofar as they are actual entities.

Whitehead's own use of the term «metaphysics» is not systematic, as is well - known,» so not much is gained by pointing out that Whitehead speaks of Creativity as «the ultimate metaphysical principle» (PR 32; my italics).

The first category states the doctrine in a general way: that every ultimate actuality embodies in its own essence, what Alexander terms «a principle of unrest,» namely, its becoming.

When Jefferson evoked at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence the «laws of nature and of nature's God» he was able to fuse the ultimate legitimating principles of both traditions.

In those answers there has always been indirect reference to the ultimate power that lies behind all human authority, but the defined source of authority has been some mediate principle.

Since at the same time we are able to transcend these perspectives in the recognition of their distortion, we acknowledge in principle an ideal limit of such transcendence which would fulfill our ultimate potentiality.

But, in terms of Whitehead's later thought, this theory violates the ontological principle which states that the ultimate reasons for things are found in actual events and their relations.

Instead of believing with Hartshorne that man's convictions about the ultimate character of reality can and should be determined by allegedly neutral logical principles, the understanding here being argued is that man's thinking about God is and should be governed by a vision emerging in the context of faith, a vision that is itself decisively conditioned by its rootage in history and in the prereflective levels of consciousness.

Evolution is the «free will principle» of the animal and vegetable dimension of creation and free will itself is the ultimate manifestation of this principle within the human (moral and spiritual) dimension.

Existence and actuality are related by the same general principles that govern other ultimate contrasts such as necessity and contingency, independence and dependence, everlasting and temporal, and abstract and concrete (to name four of the twenty - one contrasts that Hartshorne lists).

The subjectivist principle follows from three premises: (i) The acceptance of the «substance - quality» concept as expressing the ultimate ontological principle.

The principle may be stated thus: Growth in Christian maturity is growth in love for all the goods of mortal life, and at the same time it is growth in the capacity for detachment of our ultimate faith and hope from dependence upon our particular plans and interests.

It follows that there is a genuine purality of propositions to be made about man, and despite ultimate unity of a systematic doctrine of man (anthropology in that sense), there are in principle several sciences that can and must treat of man.

It is in the nature of things to be self - creative because according to Whitehead, creativity is the ultimate principle.

For Revelation in the ultimate resort and in principle claims the whole of reality as the possible subject - matter of its affirmations, even if only sub respectu salutis (in relation to salvation), and from this point of view even events and realities which are accessible to secular experience fall within its material scope.

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).