world process

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noun

Philosophy.

1. change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.

2. Hegelianism. change, regarded as the temporal expression and fulfillment of the absolute idea.

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Example Sentences

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

What is the nature of the world process of which I am a part?

From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

Moreover the object of the world process being the enjoyment and salvation of the puru@sas, the matter-principle could not naturally be regarded as being of primary importance.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath