 | Murray Miles - Philosophy - 2003 - 698 pages
...proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being" (General Scholium). Or again: "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no such variety of things. All the diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times... | |
 | Jordan Howard Sobel - Philosophy - 2003 - 676 pages
...— We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things and final causes, . . . Blind metaphysical necessity. which is certainly the...and everywhere, could produce no variety of things, (Newton 1953. pp. 41, 42. 44) Can it be by accident that all birds, beasts, and men have their right... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - Business & Economics - 2004 - 448 pages
...of his perfections; but we venerate and worship him because of his dominion. For we worship him as servants, and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes is nothing other than fate and nature. No variation in things arises from blind metaphysical necessity, which... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...substance of God. We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final cause: we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical... | |
 | F. LeRon Shults - Religion - 2005 - 340 pages
...of his perfections; but we venerate and worship him because of his dominion. For we worship him as servants, and a god without dominion, providence and final causes is nothing other than fate and nature."6 Like so many of his colleagues, however, Newton found himself attracted... | |
 | Paul W. Franks - Philosophy - 2005 - 462 pages
...his perfections, but we venerate and worship him only because of his dominion. For we worship him as servants, and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes is nothing other than fate and nature. No variation in things arises from metaphysical necessity, which be the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...substance of God. We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final cause: we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence...necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find... | |
 | Miroslav Volf, Michael Welker - Religion - 288 pages
...Newton writes, "We know [God] only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature."38 Newton's understanding of God meant that Jesus could only be derived from God's dominion,... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2005 - 384 pages
...believes that the external world which is the world of phenomena is not a result of "unguided" necessity. "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly...and everywhere, could produce no variety of things" 47 says Newton. According to Newton, the world of phenomena come into being only through God. God creates... | |
 | Neil deGrasse Tyson - Religion - 2007 - 392 pages
...can be done. ... We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we...reverence and adore him on account of his dominion, (p. 545) A century later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace confronted Newton's... | |
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We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence,... 
