Sentences with phrase «unchanging forms»

Often Thomas is accused of a «static» view of reality, where unchanging forms are somehow fused with formless matter — precluding the possibility of evolution among other things.

The dominant object of reflective consciousness ceased to be the flow of sense experience and became, instead, the unchanging forms.

In this unchanging form it must be indifferent to how this beauty is attained.

I would say that we actualize this dualistic danger whenever we impute a given and unchanging form to either old or new creation.

A faith reflecting and witnessing to this process obviously can not retain a static and unchanging form; instead, it must undergo a continual metamorphosis, a progressive metamorphosis embodying the gradual but continual descent of the Word into flesh.

It sees the truth of any sort of object (say an apple) not as that object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).

In this unchanging form it must be indifferent to how this beauty is attained.16 But if God's aim at beauty explains the limitation by which individual occasions achieve definiteness, then in its continual adaptation to changing circumstances it must involve propositional feelings of each of the becoming occasions as realizing some peculiar satisfaction.

Whereas Allard's tactile, seductive shredded paper masses titillate the senses, implying states of change and natural evolution, Lee's conceptual geometry engages mind over matter, asking us to envision the purity of a non-material concept, the unchanging form of the universe and our place within it.

Not exact matches

Plato presented two orders of existence: that which is, i.e., being, which is unchanging and eternal and is «always real» (e.g., the Platonic forms), and that which becomes (génesis) «and is never real.»

That can readily be discerned in Plato's notion of the eternal Forms or Ideas, which come to be varyingly embodied in passing moments but which themselves are unchanging and unaffected by how the world momentarily incarnates them.

To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it does upon a basically Aristotelian concept of nature or form as a static unchanging reality, can accommodate the discoveries of modern science.

The hypothesis of a definitive halt in terrestrial evolution is, to my mind, suggested less by the apparently unchanging nature of present forms than by a certain general aspect of the world coinciding with this appearance of cessation.

From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.

So do those who seek a remedy for present ills by insisting on unchanging adherence to a form of the ministry developed in some earlier cultural period.

It is true also that it does form what, perhaps, for the first time, may be called a book, but it was certainly never the fixed and unchanging kind of a book that most Bibles have become.

I believe Paul is saying that although Greek philosophy uses the concept of «form» to think of god as this perfect, unchanging, unfeeling deity, this is not what we see in Jesus Christ.

Jesus did not seek to be equal to the form of God, that is, to the perfect, unfeeling, uncaring, unchanging ideal of god that human philosophy presents us, but instead, through the incarnation, revealed to us what God is really like.

When I reference context, I mean the subtle, unchanging, constant energy that has no form, commentary, agenda, or judgment.

No, the explanation for Adaline Bowman's (Blake Lively) unchanging physical form is purely scientific — it's just that the science behind the phenomenon won't be discovered until 2035, according to the omniscient narrator who walks viewers through her unique condition in the film's opening scenes.

He is best known for playing with memorializing forms, the honorific bust meant to show a strong unchanging visage turned into a violently anguished portrait of cancer.

In a comparable way, the stencils used by Willard Boepple in his screenprint monoprints are colored uniquely and sequentially within sets of identical configuration so as radically to alter perspective, depth and even form in otherwise unchanging structures.

After all, many abstract painters have their unchanging idioms, their drips, stripes or spots, their blurry oblongs, geometric forms or transparent veils, just as she has her high - chrome sampling.