Sentence examples for a being whose from inspiring English sources

It seems that for Clarke a "necessary being" is a being whose non-existence is impossible (either because it is an independent being or is necessarily dependent on an independent being), and a "self-existent being" is a being whose non-existence is impossible because the necessity of its existence is to be found in its own nature.

Kant held that the cosmological argument, in concluding to the existence of an absolutely necessary being, attempts to prove the existence of a being whose nonexistence "is impossible," is "absolutely inconceivable" (B621).

For although a being may do no wrong in creating less than the best it can create, a being whose nature is to be perfectly good is not such that it is possible for there to be a being morally better than it.

This returns us to the Ontological Argument, or at least the objectionable idea at its heart, for the necessary being that the Cosmological Argument proposes is also the idea of a being whose essence involves existence.

On the one hand, there are metaphysical interpretations of the term: God is a prime mover, or a first cause, or a necessary being that has its necessity of itself, or the ground of being, or a being whose essence is identical with its existence.

Rejecting Shankara's conception of reality, Ramanuja defended the thesis that brahman is a being with infinitely perfect excellent virtues, a being whose perfection cannot be exceeded.

The turkey is a sentient being whose spark of life is now in us.

You are are an artist whose art is masterful.

A complex universal is a universal whose parts are universals (just as a complex particular is a particular whose parts are particulars).

He is a man whose philosophy is fuzzy but whose affect is rectilinear.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.