Sentence examples for which being is from inspiring English sources

The principle of contradiction rests (fundatur) on a conceptual basis, since it can be reduced to the terms out of which it is composed, among which "being" is the first (In Metaph. IV.6; Aertsen 1996, 146 151).

Where Nietzsche finds in this concept the original metaphysical error produced by morality and the communicative needs of the herd, Heidegger sees in it the end and exhaustion of the metaphysical tradition, inaugurated by the Greeks, in which being is interpreted as presence.

In the Treasury of the Abhidharma, Vasubandhu expressed the widely-held Buddhist view that in addition to causing beings' particular rebirths, karma also shapes the realms into which beings are reborn and the non-sentient contents of those realms.

That internal structural relation remains crucial to the later philosophy, but now 'the nothing' is to be heard explicitly as 'the mystery', a kind of 'dark matter' of intelligibility that must remain concealed in the unfolding of Being through which beings are unconcealed.

Dissolving into things, processes and events as the mode of their becoming, time is a medium within which every being is able to exist and develop.

The answer involves a reference to their essential relations to each other in the universe of beings, that is by the essential place they occupy in the chain of beings in which every being is essentially ordered to some other being as either its cause or its effect.

He was thinking of the wider society of which every human being is a member, but it is also true that human bodies themselves are societies.

God's truth is ultimately a mystery to which no human being is privy.

Consider the way in which a human being is a microcosm of the macrocosm of existence.

Dambrun and Ricard (2011) postulated a theoretical model in which well-being is linked to two qualitatively distinct aspects of the psychological functioning of the self.

The question of what well-being consists in is of independent interest, but it is of great importance in moral philosophy, especially in the case of utilitarianism, according to which well-being is to be maximized.