Sentences with phrase «philosophical systems like»

The earlier teachers of Law, for example, Manu and the Buddhist saints and Philosophical systems like Sankhya have used the fables to illustrate their teachingsxlviii.

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Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

Hence, insofar as instantiations of Spirit, namely, ontological totalities of various kinds up to and including the universe as a whole, are structured like Whiteheadian societies, then absolute knowledge such as Hegel envisions as a result of his own philosophical system is metaphysically impossible.

Like Derrida, he recognizes the privileged position accorded to certain types of philosophical assertions by virtue of the language system they presuppose.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Meanwhile, Ben - Ary ponders the philosophical implications of the project: «In the future, will we treat these systems like pets or objects?

Thanks to its Question of the Day matching system, Siren sets up the context for discussing engaging topics (like bucket list items and philosophical questions) and pairs people through those authentic and entertaining conversations.

Like the previous two iterations, based on the legend of the «lost continent» of Lemuria and Galileo Galilei's A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), Entropy: 25800 takes for its starting point a text, in this case a series of five philosophical monographs «channelled» between 1981 and 1984 and known collectively as The Law of One.