underived

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The simple and underived character of the moral faculty is maintained because of the superior authority attached to what is natural, as opposed to what is merely conventional.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

"Firstly,—if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

He had true creative imagination, a fund of original, underived emotion, and a copiousness of invention almost as great as Wagner's or Mozart's.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.

The opposite of monism is therefore pluralism, which is that kind of philosophy which seeks to explain the universe from many ultimate and equally underived principles.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)