Call this the sovereignty-aseity intuition (see Plantinga 1980, Davidson 1999).    From Wordnik.com.  [God and Other Necessary Beings] Reference

One could attribute aseity or ˜self-existence 'to space-time, matter-energy and the universe as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

Thomists bemoaned in their rivals the lack of the classical Aristotelian epistemology and the ontological notions of being, aseity, necessity, and changelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800] Reference

If a philosophy lacks this living fundamentwhich is usually a sign that the ideal principle too was originally only feebly at work in itit loses itself in the kind of system whose attenuated concepts of aseity, modifications, etc., stand in sharpest contrast to the vital force and fullness of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy] Reference

This Spirit is the world in its extra-divine aseity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire and the Rose] Reference

The so-called positive aseity of Prof. Schell, meaning that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

For if He began in time, He would need a prior cause, and that would contradict his aseity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

To annoy these further by opposing pedantry to banality, one might say that the aseity is quintessential.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

It is to this very property of absolute independence, or self-existence by nature that we give the name of aseity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The very notion is absurd, and could only be plausible to someone who couldn't find the aseity of O with both hands and a road map.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Cʘsmos] Reference

He is Spiritual, for were He composed of physical parts, some other power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity would thus be contradicted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

God's aseity (absolute independence) is questionable, and Scripture's authority is clearly denigrated, to the point of being belittled as an authoritative source of truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [SharperIron] Reference

This notion of aseity includes, therefore, according to our conception, a negative and a positive aspect; absolute independence and self-existence, which complement each other and form one single objective property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

It was Zuleika that had cured him of his aseity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference

"aseity" or self-existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Ontological Argument] Reference

(e.g., aseity, holiness, omnipotence, omniscience, providence, love, self-revelation) as though they were features or activities of such a particular being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

Labels: aseity, Atheism, cosmological dualism, dependence, freedom, independence, naturalism, ontology, religious freedom, religious oppression, supernaturalism, supernaturalistic theism, trinitarian theism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CADRE Comments] Reference

We consequently find, in modern philosophical usage generally, and especially since Hamilton's theory of the Unconditioned was formulated, that the "conditioned" and the "unconditioned" are used as equivalents of the "necessary" and "contingent" of the Schoolmen, in the sense that the "necessary" entity is conceived of as absolute of all determination other than its own aseity, while all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Take God's aseity, for example; or his necessariness; his immateriality; his "simplicity" or superiority to the kind of inner variety and succession which we find in finite beings, his indivisibility, and lack of the inner distinctions of being and activity, substance and accident, potentiality and actuality, and the rest; his repudiation of inclusion in a genus; his actualized infinity; his "personality," apart from the moral qualities which it may comport; his relations to evil being permissive and not positive; his self-sufficiency, self-love, and absolute felicity in himself: -- candidly speaking, how do such qualities as these make any definite connection with our life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference