Sentences with phrase «many philosophical questions»

There's also a more subtle, philosophical question of manipulation at work here.

There are larger, philosophical questions about ventures like Facebook's Instant Articles and Apple's News app — both of which are trying to bring publishers further into their ecosystems — and whether media should be wary of them or not.

This course is basically an introduction to certain topics in metaphysics and epistemology philosophy, centered around major philosophical questions that come up again and again in Star Trek.

No, not when he claimed he'd solved all great philosophical questions at just 29 years old...

But I think it's actually one of the most interesting philosophical questions that we face.

«either way, such demythologizing claims * everything * is a myth» -------------- We are no closer to answering the great philosophical questions of existence (like «why are we here?»)

In fact, I lean towards walls being built on the sand of philosophical questions.

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (he?

But a real atheist has spent time examining the philosophical questions involved.

Careful scrutiny of historical record and comparative religious study makes it plain enough without invoking deep philosophical questions.

Just as the definition of philosophy is a philosophical question, so the definition of faith is a theological issue.

Discussion of the existence of God is a philosophical question, so one has to be careful in one's arguments.

Discussion of the existence of God is a philosophical question.

He connects sexual activity to increasing doubts among young adults, and suggests that when twenty - somethings come home from college with scientific or philosophical questions related to their faith, those questions are just a guise for what's really at work — they're having sex.

And where custom dictates that for the sake of convenience we keep to the traditional academic structure, the philosophical question still remains as to whether biology (or psychology or any other human science) has a genuine right to autonomous existence.

Woody poses basic religious or philosophical questions often ignored by the secularly oriented as «too deep» and skipped over by religionists engrossed in particular issues.

Rather, the primary issue at stake among the churches is a philosophical question what is the nature of human life and which philosophical concepts most adequately depict it?

-- A Philosophical Question,» written in 1952 and quoted with the permission of the author.)

This is not because psychotherapists have avoided philosophical questions.

Again and again one reads of a master who answers a disciple's philosophical question with a complete and insulting non sequitur of nonsensical quality.

Being a biologist who, since my student days, has been also concerned with philosophical questions, I believe that certain biological considerations may help clarify and perhaps solve some epistemological problems.

They think about philosophical questions as well as historical, economic, and political ones.

One final philosophical question: Even if we agree that benevolence is supererogatory in a way that non-malevolence is not, even if we agree that our duty to give and help is much weaker than our duty not to hurt, we can still ask if giving, helping, and bestowing can in some cases become wicked: wicked because it is debilitating to the self - reliance of the recipient; wicked because it deprives one of the capacity to give also to others; wicked because it infantilizes the recipient; wicked because it cements a bond between giver and taker that should be much more evanescent.

Wittgenstein countered Descartes» dualism, after all, by observing that the philosophical question he was most famous for — how do I know that I am?

But more significantly, Christian's Interpretation marvelously brings before all process thinkers legitimate philosophical questions about Whitehead's theology.

Belief in God is about the philosophical questions that existence raises.

Throughout Hartshorne's work love has been the standard by which decisions are best determined, yet he fails to think as broadly on abortion as he does on most other philosophical questions.

Yet beyond Whitehead's original harmless and humorous intent, there is a serious and sympathetic sense in which this designation captures precisely the spirit and intent of Russell's basic realistic and logical approach to philosophical questions in the era of G. E. Moore and the «common sense» approach to empiricism.

The third section, fifty percent longer than the first two together, considers several theological and philosophical questions raised by the relation between sacred theology and contemporary evolutionary theory, They include the distinction between spirit and matter, the unity of spirit and matter, the concepts of becoming, of cause and of operation, the creation of the spiritual soul, the insights of Aristotelian scholasticism, and the biblical narrative of man's origin as it relates to the theory of evolution.

Then there are questions regarding the nature of mind and matter as such, the concepts of becoming, and of unchanging natures, the philosophical question of the nature of the substantial soul and its relation to the body.

For the philosophical question as to how the making of a sign can impose a moral obligation see G.E.M.Anscombe, Collected Philosophical Papers Vol.3, Blackwell 1981 pp. 10 21, 97 103.

Not everything here works, but the social commentary, philosophical questions and solid action are good reasons to add this to your Christmas break queue.

Don't think I'm gonna be referencing you for philosophical questions like the existence of a god, hun.

That is a very deep philosophical question you ask VoR.

I don't have a formal education in philosophy, but I'm pretty sure that must be one of the fundamental philosophical questions.

Never before had I met a Christian who could respond to my most basic philosophical questions: How does one understand the Bible's contradictions?

True scientists know that science doesn't have the purpose of answering philosophical questions.

It is a philosophical question that I lean towards discover but I have no way to be conclusive.

By reasoning and being logically analytical about the philosophical question of good and evil, and applying it correctly.

Relating particularity with universality is one of the crucial philosophical questions of today which has far - reaching consequences and implications in all fields — political, cultural, economic, religious, etc..

Philosophical questions are bracketed; theological claims are acknowledged as important to the believing community without being either accepted or rejected by the investigator.

These are either excruciatingly deep philosophical questions, or else they're questions you ask people when they are really stoned.

I do not believe that philosophical questions are open to proofs, if that means that, from premises any rational person will accept, issues so vital to people as the existence of God will be rigorously decidable.

The question of whether this may contribute towards proving or disproving the existence of God is a philosophical question lying outside the scope of this review of the effects of prayer.

That's an interesting philosophical question.

«The philosophical question that has not been answered in origin - of - life studies is this: How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self - replication capabilities, and «coded chemistry»?

Luckily, I have a new bottle of red wine sitting on the counter, so I pour myself a glass and ponder these deep philosophical questions about sugar.

And Ogden has other philosophical questions to ponder, some of which were thrust in his face during his trip to Las Vegas for the Tyson - Bruno fight.

Maybe, especially if we already had a solid core built, but it is more of a philosophical question at that point on risk taking.

It's the age old philosophical question — if a plane flies over the Hawthornes but Wenger didn't see it — did the plane make a noise?