Sentences with phrase «american philosophical tradition»

In this connection, he cites not only the Whiteheadian «emphasis upon the aesthetic modality as a means of defining the substance and form of philosophic endeavor» (El 101), but also the whole American philosophical tradition (in which, correctly I think, he locates Whitehead's thought).

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How could American Lutherans make an idol of a nation whose philosophical assumptions (enlightenment liberalism) and dominant religious tradition (revivalist Calvinism) were so fundamentally at odds with their most basic understandings?

It's simple enough, and although the American Rorty and the Italian Vattimo have been formed by different philosophical and religious traditions (pragmatism and red - diaper communism for Rorty, hermeneutics and cradle Catholicism for Vattimo), they agree on most of its elements.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Thus Hartshorne belongs broadly within the idealist tradition.29 At one of the recent meetings of the American Philosophical Association, a young man who stood up to speak identified himself as «the last idealist in captivity.»

Hook begins each family meal with a lesson or philosophical question, like discussing what is wealth, or what traditions the modern American family no longer follows and what's the impact of that.

Fusing the traditions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of abstract painting with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined with the earthy tangibility of paint.

This year, the Colloquium aimed to critically examine the rich tradition of African American women artists considering philosophical frameworks associated with the women's movement such as various iterations of feminism and womanism.

Evertz, who moved from Berlin to NYC at the age of 19, sees her work as bridging two opposing aesthetic traditions: a philosophical Northern European and a pragmatic American approach to painting.