Sentence examples for perfection of things from inspiring English sources

"For," as Leibniz explains, "God could not give the creature all without making of it a God; therefore there must needs be different degrees in the perfection of things, and limitations also of every kind" (T §31, p. 142).

This view is found in "POSTSCRIPT, Concerning the Distinction of Formaliter and Eminenter, as applied to the manner of the Perfection of Things being in God," appended to Theory I.

Beauty is an objective property, founded in the perfection of things, but it is also a relational rather than intrinsic property, for it is attributed to perfection only insofar as there are subjects like us who can perceive it sensorily.

The two key ideas that Wolff takes from Leibniz are, first, the characterization of sensory perception as a clear but confused rather than distinct perception of things that could, at least in principle, be known both clearly and distinctly by the intellect; and, second, the characterization of pleasure as the sensory, and thus clear but confused, perception of the perfection of things.

Also, it has been explained that the perfection of a thing is the thing itself, and not a thing in addition to it.

Thus, the Zoroastrian concept of salvation was really a return to a golden age of the primordial perfection of all things, including humans.

David Scott puts it this way: "After all, it is a fundamental Leibnizian tenet that the 'degree of perfection' of a thing is the extent to which that thing acts.

In his commentary on the Posterior Analytics he holds that the second perfection of a thing is "the completion of the activity of the thing to which it has, as such, been established to be fitted and for the sake of which it has been established" (Rossi 1981, 240).

The later portions of the fourth treatise are grounded in another Aristotelian definition of nobility, as the perfection of a thing according to its nature [Conv. 4.16.7; Physics 7.3.246a].

In Duns Scotus, the good is an absolute property formally distinct from being; in Suarez, 'the good' primarily signifies the perfection of a thing, while adding the aspect of suitability (convenientia), i.e. it connotes a nature having a natural inclination, capacity, or conjunction with such perfection.

Baumgarten then defines judgment as the representation of the perfection or imperfection of things.