Sentence examples for finite goods from inspiring English sources

Moreover, Christian pacifists will argue that pacifism is part of a religious worldview that looks beyond a materialistic defense of the finite goods of this world.

Plantinga proposed two complementary arguments: Firstly, that the finite goods of morality in the world and human free will outweigh the finite evil which occurs in the world.

After all, while physics dictates that air space is finite, good technology can certainly find a way to use it more efficiently.

Liz Bingham, head of restructuring at Ernst & Young in London, blames the obsession with homeownership on Britain's "island mentality": land is seen as a finite good and a valuable asset.

No finite thing of any kind, no finite good or object of love can fulfill the religious act.

The claim is that it can only be understood that something finite is good, if the infinite realization of the good is always already implicitly understood (and the same holds for being and the other transcendentals).

What has been called Henry's "new way to God" starts with the acknowledgement that something finite is good and goes on to purify this content of 'good' along different degrees of abstraction, in order to reach the infinite realization of this content in God.

Robert M. Adams, in a series of articles and then in Finite and Infinite Goods (1999), first separates off the good (which he analyzes Platonically in terms of imitating the ultimate good, which is God) and the right.

"That works with a finite category of goods.

As it does, consumers and businesses will have to vie with government for a finite amount of goods and services.

"There is a finite number of good marathons in anyone," Radcliffe said.