Sentence examples for be a being that from inspiring English sources

Rather, there must be a being that is necessary in itself, and this being is God.

Could there be a being that is outside time?

Leibniz's conclusion is that there must be a being that is not merely hypothetically, but absolutely necessary, and whose own explanation is contained within itself.

We know what it is to be a subject of experience to be a being that thinks, and believes, and desires various things, for example—and prima facie at least this does not entail being embodied, let alone being embodied in the very same body over time.

It is a being that is dedicated to taking and celebrating its ease, sprawling about, making the casual most of its own indolence.

In coming to understand what is meant by "God" in such discourses, it must be understood that God, whatever else he is, is a being that could not possibly be seen or be in any way else observed.

Thus he has proved what he calls the "triple primacy": there is a being that is first in efficient causality, in final causality, and in pre-eminence.

With that distinction in mind, we can examine Scotus's argument for the existence of a first efficient cause: Scotus then goes on to argue that there is an ultimate goal of activity (a being that is first in final causality), and a maximally excellent being (a being that is first in what Scotus calls "pre-eminence").

It is possible that there is a being that has maximal greatness.

For example, is a moral being a being that makes moral judgements or a being that is morally good?

In these relations technology is experienced as a being that is otherwise, different from me, technology-as-other.