Sentence examples for existence in itself from inspiring English sources

He reported that he felt "utterly dead"; that he had entered "the Void"; that he had become a "diamond, which reflects everything, but has no existence in itself".

The word was first used in prewar Germany to describe the kind of philosophy, propounded by Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, that argued existence in itself was meaningless and morality was a fiction.

Hence his solution is to argue that humans have different bodies corresponding to different levels of existence, in itself an application of substantial motion.

There Kant says that only something "whose existence in itself had an absolute worth" could be the ground of a categorically binding law.

An ens ab alio, such as the created material universe or a finite human soul, does not have its sufficient reason for its existence in itself.

However, something whose existence is in itself necessary is something whose existence cannot depend upon anything else but itself, its own nature.

In an absolute sense, every essence possesses a double indifference: with regard to actual existence or non-existence (essence in itself is simply possible), and with regard to universality and particularity.

He repeats these connections in Ip24d, "For that whose nature involves existence (considered in itself) is its own cause, and exists only from the necessity of its nature".

Tens of thousands of Slavs, victims of Crimean Tatar slave raids, first suffered a hellish existence in Crimea itself and then ended their days rowing on Ottoman triremes.

According to Leibniz's Modal Argument, the existence of a contingent reality can only be ultimately explained through a cause whose existence is in itself necessary.

FOR a classical arts organisation, 200 years of continued existence is in itself worthy of a party.