Humanity is properly a form, or more accurately, the essential principle of a substantial form, that is, something existentially incomplete and dependent; the universal-man is this same form considered according to its own mode of being, and therefore as a sort of existentially autonomous and independent entity (ibid., p 102).
He wrote as a Christian, but added that even if he were an atheist and believed in chance, "I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization".
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the motivations, methodology and current status of an ongoing research program whose long-term goal is to elucidate the essential principles of a theory of adaptive behavior.
It is an essential principle of our system that a person should not be punished unless they have been convicted of an offence.
"What coood be better than a baby?" That rhetorical question sums up an essential principle of Mundy's book: that "having children and loving children is an unstoppable urge; that humans, or many humans, have an overpowering need to have — to be — a family".
"Colbert was poking fun at authority, a time-honored American tradition and an essential principle of democracy.
This is an essential step toward promoting safety as an essential principle of sustainable transit, according to the widely accepted EU definition of sustainable transport [15], as well as advancing the "every accident is one too many" vision of the Danish Commission on Road Safety.
Division into parts serves as an essential principle of growth in his imagination.
Mr Abadi says an essential principle of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to always stand by the oppressed and those suffering injustice.
Hilbert, for example, came to regard AC as an essential principle of mathematics[5] and employed it in his defence of classical mathematical reasoning against the attacks of the intuitionists.
In Denmark, disentangling risk factors that are positively or negatively related to bus accident severity and injury occurrence to bus passengers can contribute to promote safety as an essential principle of sustainable transit and advance the vision "every accident is one too many".
