Sentences with phrase «objectivism as»

Objectivism as the best alternative to violence: both Rorty and Palmer ignore this important truth about the epistemological tradition they criticize, though they do so for different reasons.

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This criticism reveals a total misunderstanding of Buber's philosophy of dialogue which is, as we have seen, a narrow ridge between the abysses of objectivism on the one side and subjectivism on the other.

Brunner has formulated his theology as a third way, rejecting both liberalism and orthodoxy, both subjectivism and objectivism.

This requires that we put ourselves at a distance as a first step in overcoming the alienated distance of objectivism.

Consequently, though objectivism has been exposed as a false consciousness, objectivity can not be surrendered as a goal.

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of radical libertarianism.»

Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s and 1880s.

In view of this violent trajectory of objectivism, Palmer argues, «we must recover from our spiritual tradition the models and methods of knowing as an act of love.»

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

The movement begins with Kierkegaard, who tries to do two things: to give a phenomenological description of anxiety as the occasion (not the cause) of sin, and to give a phenomenological account of the forms which result from man's fall such as loss of selfhood, impersonal objectivism, and despair.

Indeed, as noted earlier, they both incorporate some elements of objectivism into their own prescriptions.

We must at least add the desire for civil peace to the two desires, curiosity and control, that Palmer has identified as the motives for objectivism.

Palmer ignores it because he believes that in order to account for the violent trajectory of objectivism, he must find exclusively egoistic motivation — idle curiosity and the desire for control — as the basic impetus behind it.

I would argue that objectivism arose initially and that it subsequently attained cultural dominion primarily because it was intended by its architects as a way of avoiding violence.

Yet if Palmer is correct, as I think he is, in taking objectivism to be the epistemology that informs the practices of the modern university, and if I am correct in suggesting that James and others had already fashioned powerful alternative theories of knowledge as early as 1880, a vital historical question arises.

The outlines of what Rorty calls foundationalism and what Palmer calls objectivism were developed during the seventeenth century by thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke.

Palmer calls this scheme «objectivism,» and he describes it not so much in terms of a history of ideas or a group of thinkers as in terms of a set of pedagogical practices that characterize the contemporary academy.

Rather, as noted earlier, he derived objectivism from current pedagogical practice, and he never intended to suggest that objectivism, in the complete sense of the word, could be found in the writings of any given thinker or set of thinkers.

Brunner believed that this personalistic, existential notion of truth as encounter was a fruitful — and biblical — alternative to the liberalism and subjectivism of Schleiermacher and the intellectualistic objectivism found in traditional Roman Catholicism and orthodox Protestantism.

I think you have to have the avowed belief in supernatural agents to be considered a religion, otherwise you get stuff like Objectivism (which is actively anti-religious) counting as a «religion.»

We were caught in the web of intellectual objectivism, with its pretense of detachment, disembodied observation and uninvolvement as the ideal stance of the researcher.

Hence objectivism with a vengeance: the more religion could be taught as an exact science, the less offense it would cause.

- UK Green Wing scriptwriter James Henry had nice things to say about games as a medium on his «Blue Cat» blog, and points out that the top 3 titles at his local game store are»... an art deco - themed playable critique of Ayn Rand - style Objectivism... an incredibly odd puzzle game that requires you to bend 3D space with a special gun... [and] a Japanese roleplaying adventure set entirely within a dreamworld generated by Frédéric Chopin.»

Packed with allusions to author Ayn Rand's Objectivism philosophy and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty - Four, and with a gorgeous setting inspired by the Art Deco architectural movement, this was about as far away as possible from the usual bad - guy - aliens - have - taken - over-the-Earth fare that makes up most shooters.

I will resist the temptation to discourse off - topically about Ayn Rand, except to note that her use of the term «objectivism» was ironic given that, as John Reisman notes, her philosophy emphasized values, and the capacity to value is the essence of subjectivity.

The editor of Reason magazine (a libertarian glossy monthly with obvious ties to Objectivism) didn't know what to make of it — as it would seem to be the attempt to wed Libertarianism to some form of theocratic government.

They are strongly focused on there being one and only one Objectivism — maintaining its «consistency» as a coherent system — partly because they are only gradually developing it as a «technical» system and presumably they want to do things right — which was made exceedingly difficult as it got developed at a popularized level first — trying to change the world.

And really, «philosophical» discussion such as this does not begin to convey the depth and breadth of Objectivism.

relativity and quantum physics... those disciplines show that the philosophical basis of Objectivism is as fundamentally wrong as the notions of absolute time and absolute space, or the idea that a particle simultaneously has an exact position and an exact momentum.

Timothy Chase wrote: ``... as a follower of a libertarian philosophy called Objectivism I learned that existence exists independently of our awareness of it...»

I grew into adulthood reading The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and as a follower of a libertarian philosophy called Objectivism I learned that existence exists independently of our awareness of it and that consciousness is radically dependent upon existence for its material.

I don't know if the moderators will permit my previous «philosophical» comment which was verbosely critical of Objectivism, but in defense of Objectivism in the context of AGW denialism, it is my observation that the overwhelming majority of denialists who claim or appear to be «ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries» are not operating on the basis of any such intellectual framework as Objectivism.