Sentence examples for ultimate principles from inspiring English sources

"I see this as a fight for the dharma," said Mr. Bharti, using the Sanskrit word that loosely translated means "ultimate principles".

The familiar and the academic conceptions have in common an opposition to invoking the authority of precedents or of abstract and ultimate principles.

He simply denies that finite individuals are wholly independent centres or ultimate principles of value.

In Fr. 6 Philolaus argues that we cannot say anything more definite about the ultimate principles of reality ("nature in itself" and "the being of things").

Neopythagoreans typically emphasize the role of number in the cosmos and treat the One and Indefinite Dyad as ultimate principles going back to Pythagoras, although these principles in fact originate with Plato.

In this sense, fragmentary as it may be, Cardano's De natura is an attempt to outline the ultimate principles of reality (on the relationship between natural and supernatural phenomena in Cardano, see Siraisi 1997, 149 173).

"Nevertheless, the overall systems of thought constructed by nonbelievers will be false — for if the system is not built on Biblical truth, then it will be built on some other ultimate principle.

At the very core of this dynamic edifice stands nature, the "dark cloud" (ʿamāʾ) or "mist" (bukhār), as the ultimate principle of things and forms: intelligence, heavenly bodies, and elements and their mixtures that culminate in the "perfect man".

In his best-known work, Traité des vérités premières et de la source de nos jugements (1724; "Treatise on First Truths and on the Source of Our Judgments"), Buffier sought to discover the ultimate principle of human knowledge.

His Of the Nature of Virtue, appended to the Analogy, presented a refutation of hedonism and of the notion that self-interest is the ultimate principle of good conduct; for this work Butler has been considered by some critics to be one of the foremost British moral philosophers.

The highest level of being, and through it all of what in any sense exists, derives from the ultimate principle, which is absolutely free from determinations and limitations and utterly transcends any conceivable reality, so that it may be said to be "beyond being".