Sentence examples for division of nature from inspiring English sources

The work does however have structure: Pliny uses Aristotle's division of nature (animal, vegetable, mineral) to recreate the natural world in literary form.

But the surfeit of choice brings a lot of stress with it and can lead to a kind of Manichaean view of food, a division of nature into the Good Things to Eat and the Bad.

On the Division of Nature is a large, systematic work in four books, presenting a vision of reality in strongly neo-Platonic terms.

Among Eriugena's own writings, the two most important ones were surely On the Division of Nature (= De divisione naturae or, under a Greek title, Periphyseon) and On Predestination (= De praedestinatione), both very strongly influenced by the neo-Platonic texts Eriugena was translating.

Challenging the logic of the one and the many, Irigaray takes the self-division of nature, its being-two, as a model of autonomous self-development.

These four divisions of nature taken together are to be understood as God, presented as the 'Beginning, Middle and End of all things'.

Immediately following on his abrupt announcement of the four divisions of nature, Eriugena proceeds to list 'five ways of interpreting' (quinque modi interpretationis) the manner in which things may be said to be or not to be (Periphyseon, I.443c-446a).

This tripartite division of human nature, at this early stage of Erasmus' life (1503 1504) when he was not yet challenged by feeling a need to relate this discussion to the action of divine grace, suggests that in preferring Origen's theory, he has turned away from Platonic dualism.

Furthermore, the division of exposure to nature images into 5 min segments enabled the observation of increased HRV as anticipated in an initial 5 min dose, thus supporting previous work.

EVER since the possibility of German reunification arose, the Bush Administration has chosen to talk about it in the most delicate and positive terms, almost as if Germany's division had been an act of nature and not war.

The amount of pottery and ornamental stonework and metalwork that has been found suggests some division of labour; moreover, the nature and size of the earthworks at many sites suggest that forms of public labour, whether voluntary or conscripted, may have been employed.