Phrases with «philosophical presuppositions»

"Philosophical presuppositions" refers to the underlying beliefs or assumptions that people have about the nature of reality, knowledge, and existence. These beliefs shape their understanding of the world and influence how they interpret and think about various philosophical ideas. Full definition

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Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen). (firstthings.com)
In reading of his concern that evolution «is based not upon any incontrovertible empirical evidence, but upon a highly controversial philosophical presupposition,» I am reminded of events in Paris that transpired in the early part of 1751, after publication of volume one of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, which contained his Theory of the Earth. (firstthings.com)
This reference just made to philosophical presuppositions identifies our thought with one type of Christian theology and cuts across the dominant tendency in the neo-orthodox movement, where philosophy is wholly rejected by theology as in Barth, or is given a merely peripheral role as in Brunner, and, to a lesser extent, in Richard Niebuhr and Reinhold Niebuhr. (religion-online.org)
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