Sentence examples for universal natural from inspiring English sources

This allows him to reply to the challenge that there cannot be any universal, natural law because no such law is known or respected universally.

Leaving aside the bad jokes, how far should we imagine that jokes and laughter are a universal, "natural" human phenomenon transcending boundaries of time and space?

Karl Marx rejected Malthus's belief in a "principle of population," a universal natural law whereby population growth was always faster than the growth of resources.

And it is the universal natural body that gives birth to the translucent bodies of the spheres, to the elements, and to their mixtures, all of which are related to that primary source as daughters to their mother.

Cicero defined the republic as an association held together by law; he further asserted, as Plato had maintained with his doctrine of Forms, that government was sanctioned by a universal natural law that reflected the cosmic order.

But how is universal, natural goodness possible?

Lowe argues that recognizing the ontologically fundamental distinction between substantial universals (natural kinds) and non-substantial universals (properties) accounts for the laws of nature in a manner that, while avoiding the problems of a regularity account, may nonetheless do without Armstrong's second order relation of necessitation, itself a relational universal (Armstrong 1983, 75 110).

Once again it seems imperative to decide whether and how mind emerges upon, or exists only under, some specifiable and non-universal natural and non-mentalistic conditions or whether mind itself forms a part of the fundamental structure of the world, perhaps in some of the ways panpsychists have suggested.

It's internal and personal, rather than universal and natural: my struggle, not the struggle.

For these are the largest, most universal, most natural emotions, not the precious little sweets of the stylish novelist".

Isadora Duncan, for example, shown posing at the Parthenon in 1904 and in Edward Steichen's famous 1920 portraits, believed that she could strip away the manners of received European culture; in Greek art she believed she found universal and natural gestures.