Sentences with phrase «western philosophical tradition»

The key heresy that was introduced by Hermeticism and brought full into the Western philosophical tradition by Hegel is the notion that God seeks fulfilment in the advance of man, a sort of «let's meet in the middle» notion.

In Western philosophical tradition, hospitality is also linked to the notion of territory.

The epistemology of control has its roots not only in our Western philosophical tradition, but also in the very nature of human beings.

In our last issue we published a piece by Fr John M. McDermott S.J. concerning the resolution of tensions in the western philosophical tradition, especially in the modern philosophy of science...

Obviously then, the term person became one of incomparable significance for Christian thought, while its importance for the western philosophical tradition grew in proportion.

This definition became classical for Christianity and the western philosophical tradition, and is the hinge around which all later Christian thought on the person rotates.

The western philosophical tradition viewed as a whole stands Out as a process of the enhancement of subjectivity rather than the correction of it.

This undertaking, which looks upon Plato's Timaeus as its paradeigma, has been termed cosmology» in the western philosophical tradition of which Whitehead's Process and Reality is a prime example.

Or, did they successfully unite the best parts of the Western philosophical tradition, and so create a political philosophy that could withstand its own worst tendencies?

While most intellectual historians agree in ranking Russell among the giants of this century, and even accord him a place of honor in the entire 2500 - year history of the Western philosophical tradition, the judgment is still not in on Whitehead's role and place in that history.

If Heidegger was right — and he was — in saying that there was always a nihilistic core to the Western philosophical tradition, the withdrawal of Christianity leaves nothing but that core behind, for the gospel long ago stripped away both the deceits and the glories that had concealed it; and so philosophy becomes, almost by force of habit, explicit nihilism.

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In Eliade, an Indian Christian finds a Guru who opens the eyes to see the wealth of Indian traditions and who has made Indian / oriental religious philosophy dialogue with Western / occidental philosophical thought.

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).

Black theology has its deepest rootage in the experience of enslaved and oppressed Africans, and in their appropriation of the witness of scripture; but not in the philosophical and theological traditions of the Western academy and in its medieval and Greek forebears.

For Adamson, the result was an immense contribution to Western thought, primarily through the work of Augustine, whose influence is felt in everything from the literary tradition of autobiography to philosophical examinations of the will.

If we accept the account of human nature given by the Western theological and philosophical traditions — that we are free, rational beings, limited and imperfect, prone to diversity of opinion and errors in judgment — we may be more inclined to be not only tolerant but gracious and loving toward those with whom we disagree.

They surely have no clear warrant in the Western philosophical and theological tradition.

In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that tradition.

I think Whitehead also knew this, suggesting a radical reversal of the Western philosophical and religious tradition's insistence that virtue, there meant as obedience to law, can be externally taught.

Heidegger thought that later Reformation traditions had failed to build on Luther's radical insight, and he saw himself as «a kind of philosophical Luther of Western metaphysics.»

«A key question now is to know how the human of the 21st century can reactivate his animality and animalize himself anew when all Western thought since the Greeks tells him that he is human precisely because of this rupture with animality,» Lestel suggests, building on his critique of the very philosophical foundations of the ethological tradition.

Wakanda is a fantastical kingdom unlike any other fantastical kingdom, built atop cultural, philosophical, and mythological traditions very far from the Western European ones we're more familiar with from our fiction.

Our schools believe in each student's innate potential to comprehend the rich tradition of Western Civilization to which he / she is heir and to grow in the virtues that mark a profound, philosophical life summarized by the triad of our Latin motto: verum, pulchrum, bonum — truth, beauty and goodness.

Mitchell's indoor sculptures strive to unite many sculptural and philosophical traditions - African, Asian and Contemporary Western.

Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions and popular arts, as well as the western canon, NS Harsha creates quietly philosophical, luminous works that reflect on geopolitical order and our ever - more technologically mediated relationship with the world.

Characterized by its emphasis on the monochrome, its refined approach to materiality and its philosophical interest in the relationship between the artist's consciousness and the act of making, Dansaekwha borrowed materials, techniques and motifs from both Eastern and Western painting traditions.