Sentence examples for principle of goodness from inspiring English sources

How such a principle of goodness works in all things Plato clearly felt unable to say when he wrote the Republic.

He claims that the world contains both goodness and badness and he postulates two antithetical principles to account for each one of them (De Iside 369C D), since God can only be the principle of goodness (ibid; cf. Republic 379c, Theaetetus 176a).

The contrast would be to a God of the sort Mansel proposed, one Just beyond all human justice, a principle of Goodness that creates the world in its image and therefore whose existence requires us to deny that the palpable evil that we find really is evil.

What actions and passions properly belong to human nature and distinguish it from all other beings?" In that connection he ties the need to discover the true nature of things with 'likening oneself to God' (homoiôsis theôi) and indicates that there is a unitary principle of goodness.

The USP establishes the principle of goodness as the bedrock of spirituality.

The principle of goodness of fit testing is to compare the empirical distance (i.e., the distance between the experimental data and their fitted distribution) with an artificial distance (i.e., the distance between artificial data generated according to the hypothesized distribution and their fitted distribution).

This changes with a growing interest in an all-encompassing metaphysical grounding of knowledge in Plato's middle dialogues, a development that leads to the positing of the 'Forms', as the true nature of all things, culminating in the Form of the Good as the transcendent principle of all goodness.

Afterwards they are admitted to the training in the master-science of 'dialectic', a science of which little more is said beyond the indication that it enables its possessor to deal in a systematic way with the objects of real knowledge, the Forms, and with the Form of the Good in particular, the principle of the goodness of all else (531c 535a).

God is depicted as a principle of abstract goodness, and Jesus is seen as the messenger who brought the eternal moral truths to humankind.

He does not describe him as a personal being or father, but as a general principle of abstract goodness (Black 1973: 258).

Therefore, it is wrong to see the One as a principle of oneness or goodness, in the sense in which these are intelligible attributes.