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What can account for the dramatic shift in physis's status in this late work?
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They did not reply: "we mean hypostasis when we say nature, we do not mean the Divine Nature (which the Word has in common with the Father and the Holy Ghost) but His Divine Person, which in the present case we call His physis", for the physis tou Theou Logou, before the word sesarkomene has been added, is in the sphere of "theology" not of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The whole point of ancient Greek philosophy was to ascend from the cave of ancient Greek nomos to physis, which is why Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010
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The whole point of ancient Greek philosophy was to ascend from the cave of ancient Greek nomos to physis, which is why Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010
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What is curious about the description of the temple's poiesis — its bringing into presence of nature — is the way in which the temple's "world" has usurped the original meaning of physis, which is an
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Instead of looking for God in the gaps, however, Turner's work suggests we hearken back to what Aristotle and the Greeks called the physis, or nature of organisms.
Forbes.com: News John Farrell 2011
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You won't find this term is dictionaries of philosophy though the authors equate it, somewhat improbably, with "physis," the Greek term for "nature".
The Gods Return Eric Ormsby 2010
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( "The Thing" 179) of the fourfold (earth, sky, mortals and the divine) suggests that the "physis"
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In his later thinking, Heidegger will explore the concept of nature through the Greek "physis," exhibiting "physis" as standing in intimate relation to "aletheia" — nature, in this primordial sense, itself appears as a mode of the concealing/revealing of being.
enowning enowning 2009
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In his later thinking, Heidegger will explore the concept of nature through the Greek "physis," exhibiting "physis" as standing in intimate relation to "aletheia" — nature, in this primordial sense, itself appears as a mode of the concealing/revealing of being.
Archive 2009-03-01 enowning 2009
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