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.
Example Sentences
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To meet the requirements of the highest economic efficiency under modern conditions, the world process must habitually be apprehended in terms of quantitative, dispassionate force and sequence.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
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)
Hence the world process, and the intelligent purpose we fancy we detect in it must be illusory....
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman
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
He considered the world process to consist in sorting out confused things and the gradual establishment of order.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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