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• Immanuel Kant
  ...Kant argues, to extend knowledge to the supersensible realm of speculative metaphysics. The reason that knowledge has these constraints, Kant argues, is that the ...that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” [https://iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ IEP]
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• Universal
  ...eption of a [[human nature]], could be considered as universal. The 1948 [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] is inspired by such principles. ...ed, in relation to the field of mathematics, are typically considerered of universal scope. Usage of the word ''truth'' has various domains of application, rela
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• Cosmopolis
  ...sities', none even remotely qualify as a '[[universe]] city' let alone a [[universal]] city. Nevertheless, this does not preclude cultivating an appreciation fo b. Philos. That branch of metaphysics which deals with the idea of the world as a totality of all [[phenomena]] i
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• Presence
  ==Metaphysics== ...d the [[desire]] for [[immediate]] access to [[meaning]], and thus built a metaphysics or ontotheology around the privileging of presence over [[absence]].
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• 103:6 Philosophic Co-ordination
  ...he [[universe]] from the inside, he gives [[origin]] to [[theology]] and [[metaphysics]]. The later art of [[philosophy]] [[develops]] in an [[effort]] to [[harmo ...elves, standing alone, [[hope]] to gain an adequate [[understanding]] of [[universal]] [[truths]] and [[relationships]] without the [[guidance]] of human [[phil
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• 94:3 Brahmanic Philosophy
  ...sential]] [[dual]] [[concept]] of [[religion]]: the [[existence]] of the [[Universal Father]] of all [[universe]] [[creatures]] and the [[fact]] of the [[ascend ...the primordial [[creative]] [[potency]] of the potential [[cosmos]], the [[Universal]] [[Self]] existing static and potential throughout all [[eternity]]. Had t
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• Quality
  ...ty cannot be defined [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics_of_Quality Metaphysics of Quality³]. In contemporary philosophy, the idea of qualities and especi ...e of atoms it contains and is therefore a primary quality. Newton's law of universal gravitation states that the weight of an object is dictated by the attracti
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• The Three Absolutes
  ...ning of the ''Universal Absolute'', the unrevealed infinity-unity of the [[Universal Father|Paradise Father]]. ...al by the Universal Absolute. By virtue of the equipoising presence of the Universal Absolute, the First Source and Center realizes extension of experiential po
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• Categorical imperative
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Groundwork_for_the_Metaphysics_of_Morals Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals]'', it may be defined as a way of [[evaluating]] [[motivations]] ...im]] whereby you can, at the [[same time]], will that it should become a [[universal]] [[law]].</blockqoute>
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• Aristotle
  ...k_Philosophy ancient Greek philosophy], making contributions to [[logic]], metaphysics, [[mathematics]], [[physics]], [[biology]], botany, [[ethics]], [[politics] ...sing art, Aristotle seems to reject this, and instead argues for idealized universal form which artists attempt to capture in their work.
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• 0:11 The Three Absolutes
  ...[[Deity Absolute]], while these two become one in the functioning of the [[Universal Absolute]], the unrevealed infinity-unity of the Paradise Father. ...[[Universal Absolute]]. By [[virtue]] of the equipoising presence of the [[Universal Absolute]], the [[First Source and Center]] realizes extension of experient
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• 103:7 Science and Religion
  ...an.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:9._UNIVERSAL_ABSOLUTE_UNITY universal reality] are perfectly correlated in the [[mind]] [[relationships]] of the ...]] or grasp it, has [[mortal]] man resorted to his futile [[gesture]] of [[metaphysics]], that being the only human substitute for the [[revelation]] of [[truth]]
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• Actuality
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle's] [[philosophy]] and [[metaphysics]]. With these two notions, Aristotle [[intends]] to provide a [[structure]] ...phy may lose some of its [[universal]] scope). In numerous passages of his Metaphysics, Aristotle makes the following divisions:
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• 103:9 The Essence of Religion
  ...[Theology]] deals with the [[intellectual]] [[content]] of [[religion]], [[metaphysics]] ([[revelation]]) with the philosophic aspects. Religious [[experience]] i ...d lead man unqualifiedly to depend upon the [[absolute]] [[love]] of the [[Universal Father|infinite Father]] of the [[universe of universes]]. Such a genuine [
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• Essence
  ...to.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/ S. Marc Cohen, "Aristotle's Metaphysics"] ...can to call several individuals; for example the word "homo". Therefore a universal is reduced to a sound's emission. (Roscelin, "De generibus et speciebus")
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• Concepts
  ...members of the extension as if they were identical. Classical concepts are universal in that they apply equally to every thing in their extension. Concepts are ...with all the conceptual constructs we employ in physics, mathematics, and metaphysics. The impetus to have a theory of concepts that is ontologically useful has
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• Western Philosophy
  ...for [[wisdom]] was probably related to ideas about [[universal proposition|universal]] [[knowledge]] claims in [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]], [[natural philoso ...plines is the notion that philosophy is a more fundamental, classical, and universal form of thought than the other disciplines which sprouted from it.
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• Lyricus Teaching Order
  This outcome of [[evolution]] is [[universal]] and, in the broadest [[measure]], identical for all species that are base ...on seven [[disciplines]]: the fields of [[genetics]], neo-[[sciences]], [[metaphysics]], sensory data streams, psycho-coherence, cultural [[evolution]], and the
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• Objectivity
  ...very difficult [[concept]] to pin down in philosophy. While there is no [[universal]]ly accepted articulation of [[objectivity]], a proposition is generally co ...a critical method of approach in the distinction between epistemology and metaphysics.
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• Metaphysics
  .... "Metaphysician" is, counterintuitively, the name of someone that studies metaphysics, not metaphysicist. A central branch of metaphysics is [[ontology]], the investigation into what types of things there are in t
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• Quantity
  ...ine, breadth a surface, depth a solid. (Aristotle, book v, chapters 11-14, Metaphysics). ...rt of the subject to be predicated. Accordingly, there are existential and universal quantifiers. In relation to the meaning of a construct, quantity involves t
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• 115:3 Original, Actual, and Potential
  ...]], is the maximum [[paradox]] of [[creature]] [[philosophy]] and finite [[metaphysics]]. Though man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]] reaches up in the [[worship]] [[ex ...f the [[three Absolutes]] of [[potentiality]], the Deity, Unqualified, and Universal Absolutes. This triodity of [[existential]] [[potentiality]] [[constitutes]
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• 101:2 The Fact of Religion
  ...[[reality]] of a [[God]] who fosters [[personality]] [[survival]]. What [[metaphysics]] fails utterly in doing, and what even [[philosophy]] fails partially in d ...n]] confirms the experiential [[harmony]] of this [[triune]] approach to [[universal]] [[reality]].
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• Existence
  ...Plato's ''Phaedo'', ''The Republic'', and ''Statesman '' and Aristotle's ''Metaphysics'', though earlier fragmentary writing exists. Aristotle developed a compli ...he form "All A are B.", a form which logicians call [[universal quantifier|universal]]. It does not allow propositions of the form "Some A are B.", a form logi
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...t developments in the field of Philosophy of [[religion]], [[Logic]] and [[Metaphysics]]. ...e of [[theology]] and metaphysics, and the problems of [[knowledge]], of [[universal]]s, and of individuation.[2]
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• Death of God
  ...an [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objective]] and [[universality (philosophy)|universal]] [[morality|moral law]], binding upon all individuals. In this manner, the ...che's words warn of its demise and that of any metaphysical world view. If metaphysics is dead that is, Heidegger warns, because from its inception that was its [
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• Cosmology
  ...nce]], stands the [[philosophy|philosophical]] perspective of [[cosmology (metaphysics)|metaphysical cosmology]]. This ancient field of study seeks to draw [[intu ...ewton provided a physical mechanism for [[Kepler's laws]] and his [[law of universal gravitation]] allowed the [[anomalies]] in previous systems, caused by grav
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• Judeo-Islamic philosophy
  ...he macrocosm). Just as the heavenly spheres receive their motion from the universal soul&mdash;which is a simple substance emanating from God&mdash;so man rece ...manation, and in the following sequence: (1) The active intellect; (2) the universal soul&mdash;which moves the heavenly sphere; (3) nature; (4) darkness&mdash;
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• Paper 103 - The Reality of Religious Experience
  ...impse the [[certainties]] and [[divinities]] of limitless [[Deity]], the [[Universal Father]]. 103:5.3 All men [[recognize]] the [[morality]] of this [[universal]] human urge to be [[unselfish]] and [[altruistic]]. The [[humanist]] ascri
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• Spirit
  The word is used in two related contexts, one [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] and the other [[metaphorical]]. ...ization|capitalized]]) refers to the theories of a unified spirituality, [[universal consciousness]] and some concepts of [[Deity]]. All "spirits" connected, fo
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• Common sense
  ...on]]s or [[belief]]s of mankind; e.g. in the theory of [[perception]], the universal [[belief]] in the existence of a [[material]] world. Applied to the Scotch .... In such a case, does it not become problematical to attempt [[logic]], [[metaphysics]] and epistemology absent original assumptions stemming from common sense?
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• 1997-04-01-Understanding Vortex
  ...are open to [[interpretation]] to anyone who would care to dally in such [[metaphysics]]. But you had indicated an interest, and so it seemed interesting to us al ...h the [[discussion]] beforehand, and it has to do with the [[fact]] that [[metaphysics]] have been highly stimulative of [[spirit]] [[reality]], but it has [[fail
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• Paper 115 - The Supreme Being
  115:2.3 The entire [[scheme]] of [[universal]] [[creation]] and [[evolution]] on all experiencing [[levels]] is apparent ...]], is the maximum [[paradox]] of [[creature]] [[philosophy]] and finite [[metaphysics]]. Though man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]] reaches up in the [[worship]] [[ex
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• Golden rule
  ...prison, so he should not do so to others. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge University Press 1997, p68, also his Critique of Pract ...nto account. Thus the "golden rule" might still expresss the essence of a universal morality ''even if no two men in the world had any needs or tastes in commo
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• Philosophy
  ...s from a higher order preeminent world, concepts more real, permanent, and universal than or representative of the ''things of this world'', which are only chan ...l notions of self-organization and intrinsic order from Goethe and Kantian metaphysics, and proceeded to produce a long elaboration on the tension between systema
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• African Philosophy
  ...hilosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], [[ethics|moral philosophy]], and [[political philosoph ...rue happiness, and true happiness is attained by grasping the [[universal (metaphysics)|universals]] through reason and philosophy, often outside the framework of
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• A Course in Miracles
  ...rian, non-denominational spirituality. A Course in Miracles therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion. ...erizes the metaphysics of the ''Course'' as [[nondualism]] and states “the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles is non-dualistic, as it expresses one pre-separatio
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• Paper 5 - God's Relation to the Individual
  ...able to [[comprehend]] how so great and so [[majestic]] a [[God]] as the [[Universal Father]] can [[descend]] from his [[eternal]] [[home|abode]] in [[infinite] ...ssibility]] ask for safe conduct into the [[Paradise]] [[presence]] of the Universal Father. Spiritually, man must be [[translated]] many times before he can at
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• 2006-02-19-Seasons Of The Soul
  ...would like to say is, Don’t feel like the Lone Stranger. This is much more universal than you can credit right now. This is part of being human in these first, ...thin yourself your personality and spirit are trying to unify much that is universal. Here I am referring to a whole heredity of evolution, millions of years of
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• Duality
  ...ity), according to "the standard interpretation" of Dharmakirti's Buddhist metaphysics. Typically in Western philosophy, dualism is considered to be a dualism bet ..."man's eternal [[destiny]] was everlasting union with Tao, Supreme God and Universal King." His comprehension of ultimate causation was most discerning, for he
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• Paper 0 - The Foreword
  ...sociated [[concepts]] of the [[things]], [[meanings]], and [[values]] of [[universal]] [[reality]]. ...se]], this absonite [[function]] in the master universe is tantamount to [[universal]] overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity.
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• Idealism
  ...This Kantian sort of idealism opens up a world of abstractions (i.e., the universal categories minds use to understand phenomena) to be explored by reason, but ...tical action. McTaggart "..;thought that Hegel was wrong in supposing that metaphysics could show that the state is more than a means to the good of the individua
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...phy]] and other philosophies, in contrast to the notion that philosophy is universal rather than divided, is open to challenge, partly because it could appear t *[[anatta]], which specifies that all is without substantial [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] being,
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• Reality
  ...sions of [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objectivity]] that have feet in both [[metaphysics]] and [[epistemology]], philosophical discussions of "reality" often concer ...ogressing selfhood in the [[spirit]] world÷these realities, projected on a universal scale, combined in eternal relatedness, and [[experience]]d with perfection
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• 2011-08-08-God the "It"
  ...s have been about—primarily, not only with us but with Reality Itself--our Universal Father, the First Source and Center of all creation. It comes to mind that ...s ungraspable-ness at their very center. Consider all the philosophies and metaphysics of the world that try to express it, shall we say, as a horizon that recede
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• 2007-05-21-How Much Life Do You Want?
  ...t if you know the truth, consciously--the greatest truth being God’s will--universal material and mind and spiritual law--this truth can help you be free. Freed ...to grasp some of these fundamental truths of your being. Yet because your metaphysics always associates primal reality with that which is fixed, and immortal/ete
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• Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion
  ...[[reality]] of a [[God]] who fosters [[personality]] [[survival]]. What [[metaphysics]] fails utterly in doing, and what even [[philosophy]] fails partially in d ...n]] confirms the experiential [[harmony]] of this [[triune]] approach to [[universal]] [[reality]].
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• 2007-05-21-Reviewing Foundations
  ...t if you know the truth, consciously--the greatest truth being God’s will--universal material and mind and spiritual law--this truth can help you be free. Freed ...to grasp some of these fundamental truths of your being. Yet because your metaphysics always associates primal reality with that which is fixed, and immortal/ete
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  [[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Metaphysics.jpg|right|frame]] ...to the realm of empirical experience, at the same time he discredits any ‘metaphysics’ which claims to know the true nature of things in themselves beyond the
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• 2007-12-10-Mother Spirit's Endowments
  ...you reflect back to the sources of your life, Michael and myself, and our Universal Father. ...a Local Universe. We are just this much closer, my dear children, to our Universal Father’s vision.
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