" The synthesis of his dialectical examination of the nature of war is his famous " trinity ," saying that war is " a fascinating trinity — composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity, which are to be regarded as a blind natural force ; the play of chance and probability, within which the creative spirit is free to roam ; and its element of subordination, as an instrument of policy, which makes it subject to pure reason.

In " The God Particle " he once wrote " The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

The primordial nature of God consists of all potentialities of existence for actual occasions, which Whitehead dubbed eternal objects.

The view that fairy tales, unless contaminated from outside literary sources, were preserved in the same form over thousands of years, was not exclusive to Romantic Nationalists, but it fit in well with their views that such tales expressed the primordial nature of a people.

Within these contexts Tao signifies the primordial essence or fundamental nature of the universe.

Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son of Aether and Gaia.

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar ( Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιος κάπρος ; Latin: aper Erymanthius ) is remembered in connection with The Twelve Labours, in which Heracles, the ( reconciled ) enemy of Hera, visited in turn " all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable ' monster ' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father ," Zeus.

::( In this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not be described for their own sake ; here, they are perceptible surfaces created to represent their esoteric affinities with the primordial Ideals.

This etymology is related to the notion of Chaos which would define the primordial nature of the god.

From the perspective of Dzogchen, the ultimate nature of all sentient beings is said to be pure, all-encompassing, primordial awareness or naturally occurring timeless awareness.

It is said that the impressive personal qualities of the fully enlightened Buddha are derived from the fact that he was fully aligned with this already-existing primordial nature.

Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche says that, as our primordial nature, Dzogchen has existed since the beginning of time and is pointed to by various masters throughout the Universe.

All these isotopes are stable and are also present in nature as primordial nuclides, but their excess amounts in comparison with lead-204 ( which has only a primordial origin ) can be used in the technique of uranium-lead dating to date rocks.

Dainichi Nyorai 大日如來 ) as the central primordial buddha in Esoteric Buddhist doctrine is the true nature of all things and phenomena, the totality of reality in all form and formlessness, arising and non-arising.

It was seen as " something akin to the Hindu notions of ātman ( permanent, invariant self ) and ( primordial substrative nature from which all mental, emotional and physical things evolve ).

In the center is a sphere which represents Sunyata, the primordial nature of the universe, the underlying unity of all things.

The Dzogchen-traditions states that the ultimate nature of all sentient beings is pure, all-encompassing, primordial awareness, or naturally occurring timeless awareness.

According to the Confucian thought every culture should carry on its own primordial ethnic religion, which two main aspects are reverence for nature and for the ancient fathers ; in the case of the Chinese it is the Chinese folk religion and Taoism compound, which pivotal element is the worship of ancestor gods.

It is the only fissile isotope that is a primordial nuclide or found in significant quantity in nature.

In the book Chatwin develops his thesis about the primordial nature of Aboriginal song.

In some Jewish interpretations, the light created here is a primordial light, different in nature from ( and brighter than ) that associated with the sun.

Lusthaus ( n. d .) in mapping the development and doctrinal relationships of the store consciousness ( ālaya-vijñāna ), Buddha nature ( tathāgatagarbha ), Yogācāra, the self ( ātman ), Abhidharma, primordial substrative nature () and the mindstream states:

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

Written in Greek around 360 by Athanasius of Alexandria, it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is in harmony with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

Speaking for myself, the definition that seems least inadequate because most embracing is this: Myth narrates a sacred history ; it relates an event that took place in primordial Time, the fabled time of the " beginnings.

This is the Chinese creation myth from the primordial Tao.

It is only in a later epoch that the seat of the primordial tradition, transferred to other regions, was able to become either Western or Eastern.

" Mulvey argues that Lacan's psychoanalytic theory is the key to understanding how film creates such a space for female sexual objectification and exploitation through the combination of the patriarchal order of society, and ' looking ' in itself as a pleasurable act of voyeurism, as " the cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking.

Nietzsche's argument that " God is dead " coincided with his attack on the " herd mentality " of Christianity, democracy and modern collectivism ; his concept of the übermensch ; and his advocacy of the will to power as a primordial instinct, were major influences upon many of the fin-de-siècle generation.

The most accepted theory of how these structures came to be is that all the large-scale structure of the cosmos we observe today was formed as a consequence of the growth of the primordial fluctuations, which are small changes in the density of the universe in a confined region.

Here the idea is that primordial life " discovered " new amino acids ( for example, as by-products of metabolism ) and later incorporated some of these into the machinery of genetic coding.

Indium also has 47 meta states, out of which indium-114m1 is the most stable, being more stable than ground state of any indium isotope, except for the primordial ones.

Johann Fichte was the first German philosopher to make an attempt at a presuppositionless theory of knowledge, wherein nothing outside of thought is assumed to exist apart from the primordial analysis of the Ego.

Rather, it is an ambiguous perception founded upon the body's primordial involvement and understanding of the world and of the meanings that constitute the landscape's perceptual gestalt.

According to Merleau-Ponty, perception has an active dimension, in that it is a primordial openness to the life world ( to the ' Lebenswelt ')

This primordial openness is at the heart of his thesis of the primacy of perception.

Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places before, including through the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus.

In this text the evil spirit Ahriman ( not Mithras ) slays the primordial creature Gavaevodata which is represented as a bovine.

In contrast, < sup > 20 </ sup > Ne ( the chief primordial isotope made in stellar nucleosynthesis ) is not known to be nucleogenic or radiogenic ( save for cluster decay production, which is thought to produce only a small amount ).

( cf Astrobiology ) The origin of life is still a poorly understood process, but it is thought to have occurred about 3. 9 to 3. 5 billion years ago during the hadean or archean eons on a primordial earth that had a substantially different environment than is found at present.