Sentence examples for scale of perfection from inspiring English sources

Aristotle, and nearly all Western scholars after him until the 18th century, believed that creatures were arranged in a graded scale of perfection rising from plants on up to humans: the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being.

His version of the ontological argument can be summarized as follows: #There is existence #Existence is a perfection above which no perfection may be conceived #God is perfection and perfection in existence #Existence is a singular and simple reality; there is no metaphysical pluralism #That singular reality is graded in intensity in a scale of perfection (that is, a denial of a pure monism).

The 14th century also was the "Golden Age" of English mysticism, as conveyed in the writings of the hermit Richard Rolle; the canon Walter Hilton, who wrote The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection; the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing; and his contemporary, the visionary recluse Julian of Norwich, whose Revelations of Divine Love is unsurpassed in English mystical literature.

His major work was The Scale [or Ladder] of Perfection, written separately in two books.

The scale of Voldemort's ambition and the perfection of his depravity made him one of the exemplary movie bad guys of his time — the slithery Satanic verve of Ralph Fiennes's noseless performance certainly helped — but by the final installment in the franchise, his imperial, metaphysical badness had lost some of its negative sublimity.

Short films may lack the scale and sweep of their feature-length siblings, but the best of them offer a Jonsonesque promise of perfection in miniature, and a reminder that cinema is often an art of patience, precision and detail.

Although the scale does not include any supernatural beings, his scale of nature continues to have a religious undertone: the beings are hierarchically ordered in accordance to their assumed degree of perfection deduced from their type of soul.

A threesome of perfection.

Grandiose statements of perfection.

After 12 years of perfection?

Those were not merely counsels of perfection.