phusis

[*] Aristotle's real Greek sentence, and Scruton's two English translations of it, both here and on page 336, where the same Greek occurs, use a singular: "nature" in English, phusis in Aristotle's Greek.

'Sexual Desire': An Exchange Scruton, Roger 1987

Reality, including eternal moral truths, is a matter of phusis.

Homosexuality Pickett, Brent 2006

[Greek: phusis bebion ou ta chraematatheoi reia xoontes] 21 21

The Wisdom of Life 2004

[Greek: — hae gar phusis bebion ou ta chraemata] 3 Eth. Eud., vii.

The Wisdom of Life 2004

Oudeni gar eoike to anthropou soma ton epi sarkophagia gegonoton, ou grupotes cheilous, ouk ozutes onuchos, ou traxutes odontos prosestin, ou koilias eutonia kai pneumatos thermotes, trepsai kai katergasasthai dunate to baru kai kreodes all autothen e phusis te leioteti ton odonton kai te smikroteti tou stomatos kai te malakoteti tes glosses kai te pros pepsin ambluteti tou pneumatos, exomnutai ten sarkophagian.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

This theia phusis, this "divine nature," is not the nature of God, whereof in our own persons we are not subjectively partakers; and yet a nature it is which is a principle of operation, and that divine or spiritual, -- namely, an habitual holy principle, wrought in us by God, and bearing his image.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

And this is that which James respects, where he tells us that pasa phusis, "every nature," the nature of all things in their several kinds, damazetai te phusei te anthropine, "is tamed," that is, subjected to the nature of man, chap. iii.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

That phusis theia should be only a gracious habit, quality, or disposition of soul in us, I cannot easily receive.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

That is somewhere called kainē ktisis, the “new creature,” [199] but nowhere theia phusis, the “divine nature.”

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

For it is evident that he distinguisheth not between hupostasis and phusis, and therefore affirms, that the divine Word and humanity had mia phusin, one nature only.

Christologia 1616-1683 1965