Sentence examples for universal primacy from inspiring English sources

There is a universal primacy to autonomy and dignity.

His philosophical theories (culminating in a metaphysics of essences which states the ontological and epistemological primacy of universals over any other kind of beings) are the final and highest result of the preceding realistic tradition of thought.

He stresses the primacy of the most universal cause, which is, therefore, further from its effect with respect to the causes nearer to the effect and hence apparently more important.

Capréolus invoked Aquinas in order to combat the dominant nominalists, who denied the real existence of universals (qualities or properties in virtue of which a class of objects is referred to by the same general term) and gave primacy to the will over the intellect.

The nominalism (or "terminism") of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan, his rejection of "useless entities," his metaphysics of a world of individual self-contained things, and his conceptualism gave neat, though extreme, expression to Aristotle's theory of language, the economy of nature, and the primacy of individuals in existence and of universals in intellectual knowledge.

Is he insisting on the primacy of the personal (desire, love) over the universal (goodwill, benevolence)?" Part of what's puzzling about the book is that we can't tell how seriously to take such questions.

No longer backed up by invincible military might or unchallengeable economic primacy, western institutions are now only one way of realising universal human values.

Vivendi, a unit of Vivendi Universal, the media and telecommunications giant, has been buying its way to global primacy in the water purification business, paying $6 billion two years ago for USFilter of Palm Desert, Calif., an innovator in membrane technologies.

'Abd al-Latif's attitude towards contemporary medicine and the practice of alchemy helps us understand his consideration for the epistemology of the sciences, which must be based on universal grounds as that of the Ancients, and it explains once more the primacy 'Abd al-Latif assigns to the philosophy of the Greeks which he considered the right way of thinking and therefore of acting.

And in a much-talked-about 2006 response to a manifesto by the former Wired magazine editor Kevin Kelly (about the prospect of a universal library that might digitally unravel books into remixable snippets), he eloquently defends the primacy of the individual voice, the inviolable nature of artistic creation.

Maintain primacy through predation.