Sentence examples for principle of existence from inspiring English sources

But then this is Guangdong, China's boom province, a giddy, anything-goes place where consumers rule and economic success has long since supplanted Communist orthodoxy as the guiding principle of existence.

Matter (by whatever name it is called) is the principle of existence.

There, Alexander identifies the active intellect with "the first cause, which is the cause and principle of existence to all the other things" (Alexander, DA 89. 9 10).

(Realm of Matter, v) Hence, a "sour moralist" may consider it evil, but, according to Santayana, if one takes a wider view "matter would seem a good … because it is the principle of existence: it is all things in their potentiality and therefore the condition of all their excellence or possible perfection".

For Whitehead, creativity/freedom is the absolute principle of existence, and every entity (whether it is a human being, a tree, or an electron) has some degree of creativity/freedom in how it responds to other entities, and is not fully determined by causal or mechanistic laws.

"But I would like to repeat that a country that does not honor the basic principles of existence in the civilized world has major problems".

Within a culture's language, he wrote, "dwell its entire world of tradition, history, religion, principles of existence: its whole heart and soul".

They are possessed, as it were, by a logical fanaticism that leads them to mistake the abstractive principles of explanation for principles of existence.

Advancing science's quest for the first principles of existence meets the ontopoietic generative logos of life, the focal point of the New Enlightenment.

In his treatise "On the Knowledge of the Universal Principles of Existence," (Risālah dar 'ilm kulliyāt-i wujūd, in Malik, 381) as well as a number of his other works, Khayyam adopts the Neoplatonic scheme of emanation and offers an analysis of a number of traditional philosophical themes within this context.

This is Tatpurusha, "master of positive and negative principles of existence and preserver of their harmony" or Shiva as the yogi Yogeshwar in deep meditation praying for the preservation of humanity.