world process
Americannoun
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change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
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Hegelianism. change, regarded as the temporal expression and fulfillment of the absolute idea.
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To bring about this replunge into Nirvana is the goal of the world process.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
It is on account of karma that the souls have to suffer all the experiences of this world process, including births and rebirths in diverse spheres of life as gods, men or animals, or insects.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The most remarkable feature of this literature is its elaborate doctrine of evolution and emanation from the Deity, the world process being conceived in the usual Hindu fashion as an alternation of production and destruction.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
Where the world process is informed with some singleness of plan, as teleology proposes, the parts are reciprocally necessary, and inseparable from the unity.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
Both these truth-claiming hypotheses are non-dualistic in the old mind-and-matter sense; but the one is monistic and the other pluralistic as to the world process itself.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
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