Demiurgic

Word DEMIURGIC
Character 9
Hyphenation dem i ur gic
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Rejecting the object of philosophy, the pure object, the ideologue is left only with his demiurgic drive to impose an ideal on the world and for this he must claim that the meanings of institutions, practices, and realities, like human beings, are social constructions that, accordingly, have only the value that society confers on them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Syrianus and Proclus criticized Aristotle's disagreement with Plato's views on the existence of Forms and on the demiurgic role of God as crafting and creating the physical world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If your faith is justified, but there is a "Higher Power", then the benefits of Heaven become finite, ending abruptly with the overthrow of a demiurgic tyrant. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Numenius maintains that the demiurgic intellect, the second god in his hierarchy, splits into two when engaged in the creation in the world, because matter, which is required for and involved in creation, is such that it divides whatever has anything to do with it. ❋ Karamanolis, George (2009)

This month the challenge was decided on by the demiurgic Peabody from Culinary Concoctions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet creation is a process which, according to the Timaeus, can be divided into two stages, the demiurgic intellect's thinking of the Forms of all entities and its imposing them on matter. ❋ Karamanolis, George (2009)

The ETI is really a modern version of human anthrotypic ideations of gods or demiurgic beings. ❋ Julianne (2008)

Details of the self same "cleft" are almost of secondary importance since I could have explained that two headed or forked icons represent the two genders responsible for all creation - the demiurgic yin-yang/ linga-yoni aspect of the whole chain of earthly procreation and that the image therefore implied hermaphroditic characteristics as well - a common theme in ancient ritual art. ❋ Jan (2008)

While we're at it, no one has disproven the fact that we are all hypnotized space aliens on a tour of lesser civilizations; that you are all figments of my imagination; that Peter Jenkins is an agent of an evil conspiracy sowing discord to throw us off the track of our real psychic imprisonment; or that all of this is some plot by the demiurgic Flying Spaghetti Monster. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Joseph draws a line between the mere self-obsessed individual wrestling with his thoughts and the artist who through the demiurgic faculty of the imagination turns his petty personal troubles into universal concerns. ❋ Coetzee, J.M. (2004)

Moreover, in the demiurgic tradition man is a microcosm of the macrocosm and is a maker. ❋ MILTON C. NAHM (1968)

Such a man is demiurgic, for he puts down a hand on action through the sky. ❋ Various (N/A)

Europe is a loom on whose earthen framework demiurgic forces like Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Napoleon once wove the texture of European civilization. ❋ Various (N/A)

The new cult of the "will to power" which Nietzsche originated is nothing more than the old demiurgic life-illusion breaking loose again, as it broke loose in the grave ecstasies of the early Christians and in the Lutheran reformation. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

One is strangely conscious in reading him of the presence of some great unuttered power -- some vast demiurgic secret -- struggling like a buried Titan just below the surface of his mind, and never quite finding vocal expression. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Art is the free play of generous and creative imaginations with the life-blood of the demiurgic forces of the universe in their veins. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

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