Sentences with phrase «upon me the necessity»

Whatever weight we may attach to these arguments, Whitehead's own thought placed the burden of the argument for God's existence upon the necessity of a principle of limitation.

Going contrary to what he calls the orthodox approach of mechanistic biology, Sheldrake, like Polanyi, insists upon the necessity of an extraneous causal factor in addition to the mechanical and energetic causes operative in the biosphere.

A woman's right to choose opens upon the necessity of choosing one of competing interpretations of the meaning or sanctity of life — thence, actually, to become dependent upon it.

In Whitehead's words, «metaphysics requires that the relationships of God to the World should lie beyond the accidents of will, and that they be founded upon the necessities of the nature of God and the nature of the World» (AI 215).

In the preceding chapter the emphasis was placed upon the fact of the event; in this and the following chapter the stress will fall upon the necessity of regarding the event as one indissoluble whole and of finding its significance in its character as a whole rather than in some particular part or aspect of it.

Thomas» distinction was based upon the necessity for God to restructure the divine plan in the aftermath of man's sin.

Especially to the Thessalonians, who seem to have thought that with the imminent coming of the reign of God they could rest from their labours, Paul insists upon the necessity of work in general.

Indeed, the emphasis was in quite the contrary direction, for there was a strong insistence upon the necessity for a learned ministry.

They need half an hour to gather the food in the forest for our dinner,» said Riddi, my guide, to impress upon me the necessity of arriving before dark at the longhouse where we would spend the night.

The beliefs and daily operations of the school hinge upon the necessity of life - long learning in a spirit of cooperation among students, community, and academic leaders.

On the off chance that you are to consider nuts and bolts of a standard essay format, your essay ought to have a presentation, a body comprises of three to twenty fundamental focuses relying upon the necessities, and a conclusion.

Picking the administration is not an awful thought by every anyway it relies taking place upon the necessities also careful investigation even as choosing the best organization.

Also, you get the flexibility to select your policy term of 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 years relying upon your necessity.

Remained up to date on all supplies and equipment to facilitate operating an aid station immediately upon necessity.

Not exact matches

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

On a wholesome note, religions of all various denominations are a necessity when one sees all the troubles that socialism instills upon its worldly inhabitants of the human varieties.

Hay recorded that Lincoln told him at one point: «I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular government is not an absurdity.

The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

Yet in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity of individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»

God is not dependent in any sense upon anything else for divine perfection, and a relationship to anything else is not a necessity of God's nature.

To be sure, under the influence of social solidarity, Hebrew hopes of the future were in the beginning centered on an undying nation upon earth, but when hope outgrew this early stage and resurrection from Sheol became a Jewish expectation, it took of necessity the form of an individual return.

For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor in the global evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.

It is — and this is the real point — the thought and the presumption that there can be no reconciliation of these theories with historic Christianity, which places upon the critic thesubjective necessity of a modernist interpretation, whether it be idealist or materialist.

The liberal transaction in which victimized blacks insist upon relief from guilt - ridden whites often points away from the necessity for us to be engaged in our own improvement.

He will therefore doubtless give some sort of sign, though every understanding resting upon an accommodation is essentially without value for one who does not receive the condition; for which reason he yields to the necessity only unwillingly.

This is done, in this remarkable human family of which we are all a part, with demonic craft by the powerful, in an absolutely dazzling array of forms (if necessity is the mother of invention, covetousness and lust are the parents of ingenuity), upon well - established but shamelessly fraudulent justification, usually in the broad sense religious and sometimes even specifically theological.

In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.

And that is aside from the problem that all such short cuts, when lacking a firm and agreed upon definition, are by necessity vague generalizations that can be more of an impediment than a help.

These occasions are such as to lay necessities upon whatever follows them, and this character of occasions, insofar as it determines that the future will be characterized by extensiveness, is the potentiality that is the extensive continuum.

The constant presence of the Sabaean, Nabataean, and Axumite intermediaries along the route impressed upon Augustus that for the sake of his empire's welfare and for the sake of his own interest in Egypt, the necessity to take steps to make Roman trade with India easier and more profitable for state and people.

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

I would not have you make any decision on insufficient evidence, but the fact remains that life in this regard presses necessities upon us which we can not avoid.

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

Of it Perry Miller has written,»... in relation to the principal theme of the American mind, the necessity laid upon it for decision, Winthrop stands at the beginning of our consciousness.»

And this love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your love, out of the boundless flood of your loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»

The first impressions of childhood are almost ineradicable, and the first impression which many a home makes upon a child is that duty is an unpleasant necessity.

But upon closer inspection it is really necessity the man lacks.

But when we try to give an account of those episodes, the need for metaphysical continuity forces itself upon us as an epistemological necessity, and we often misinterpret that epistemological requirement as if it were a metaphysical requirement.

For the government to impose its will upon the masses is an effort to force the masses to worship it in order to receive basic necessities of living.

The indifference of philosophers to Christianity has nothing to do with their dependence upon a nexus of cultural meaning which, in subtle and unobtrusive ways, permeates every discourse that, of necessity, draws upon a given heritage of accumulative cultural meaning.

It further suggests that man is bound by existential necessities stemming from his spatiotemporal embodiment, and that fulfillment of his freedom and rationality depends upon conforming the processes of thought to the elemental demands of necessity through loyalty to the rule of noncontradiction.

The logical necessity of mathematics rests upon the basic «laws of thought,» which define not how people actually do think, but how they ought to think, if the goal of universal understanding and agreement is to be achieved.

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.»

It removes the necessity for you to question human morals or to make your own moral decisions, because it lays out a set of simple rules upon which you will always fall back if things get a little too confusing or uncomfortable for independent judgment or consideration.

As von Wright has it, this last is the same as «necessity upon tautological conditions»: not necessity assuming p. or necessity assuming not - p.

But in the concrete reality of Total Evolution, and beyond a certain degree of complexity of Consciousness, each of necessity requires the other, because Matter, once hominized, can positively not continue the super-arrangement of itself upon itself except in a specific psychic atmosphere.

A sense of collectivity, arising in our minds Out of the evolutionary sense, has imposed a framework of entirely new dimensions upon all our thinking; so that Mankind has come to present itself to our gaze less and less as a haphazard and extrinsic association of individuals, and increasingly as a biological entity wherein, in some sort, the proceedings and the necessities of the universe m movement are furthered and achieve their culmination.

Typically, those who defend the family on natural - law grounds are happy to further demonstrate the compatibility of the nature - based approach with a supernatural one, wherein the authority of the traditional family results from the imposition of sacred order upon the natural substrate or raw material of biological necessity on the one hand and possibility on the other.

The writings of Thomas Jefferson, who spoke openly of the necessity of revolution, could also be called upon for support.