Sentences with phrase «antiessentialist philosophical tradition»

Taoism itself is a religious and philosophical tradition that was born in China about 2,000 years ago, and dragons are a popular symbol in Chinese culture — although there's no sign West's dragon energy is connected to Taoism or to Chinese tradition.

The empire tolerated countless cultural and philosophical traditions, and was happy to collect taxes from followers of each of them.

On the other hand, a surprisingly large portion of Christians I've talked to are well versed in the philosophical traditions of the last 3000 years (including Greek philosophy and other religions).

They mis - underestimate the god in whom they disbelieve, thinking their imagined deity the God of classical religious and philosophical tradition.

(Thomas Aquinas gets only one mention in more than sixty pages of text, and then with a reference to his «using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged.»

For this reason I would engage now in more detail with his presentation of a prominent philosophical tradition from the point of view of the different one presented by the Faith movement.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

«1 But despite Plato's insight that power is involved in both the ability to affect and the ability to be affected (with its implication that reality and value might involve both), there has been a persistent tendency to favor what Bernard Loomer has called unilateral power — the ability to affect while remaining unaffected.2 Although this tendency is evident in every field of human thought, it will be appropriate to examine it first in the philosophical tradition, where it goes hand in hand with the valuation of being over becoming.

By the third century A.D. the practice of paideia treated all the classical philosophical traditions — Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, but most of all Platonic — with religious interests.

Toss in the occasional deist and follower of spiritual / philosophical traditions that don't lean heavily on the supernatural such as certain forms of buddhism, pretty much all confucianism, etc, and we're really cooking.

The obstacle provided by the multiplicity of ethical and philosophical traditions within nations and among the international community.

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.

Peter Winch in Simone Weil: The Just Balance (Cambridge University Press, 1989) brilliantly connects Weil's underlying philosophy to the linguistic philosophical tradition that clusters around Wittgenstein.

The Jewish tradition, which has also influenced Christian theology, although not always so much as the Greek philosophical tradition, did see the body as valuable and integral to the life of the person.

His ideas swept away the prejudices of dogmatic philosophical tradition and demanded an accounting of the inner conscious life and the universe itself, as we find it, not as philosophers have believed it ought to be or must be.

Rorty argues that the philosophical tradition from Plato to Kant has treated truth in terms of correspondence to reality, and the human mind as a kind of mirror which reflects back to us how things really and truly are.

The conclusion reached is that the modern philosophical tradition was mistaken in postulating sensory images as objects of perception.

The primacy of the sense in which these entities are is grounded in what in the philosophical tradition has been termed «act.»

«I am bending the antiessentialist philosophical tradition to Christian purposes,» Marshall explains.

The philosophical tradition has often emphasised the intellectual and volitional centre of the person.

His philosophy was driven largely by skepticism about the reigning religious and philosophical traditions of his day, and his method was geared toward weakening their influence.

In spite of Whitehead's well - known quip in Process and Reality that «The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato,» my Whiteheadian reading of the history of thought begins with Aristotle.

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.

By adopting a purely reactionary stance against the idealism of Hegel (and the philosophical tradition in general) Nietzsche ends up providing us with a vision of nature and the world which is overly narrow in scope.

Descartes continues to employ the traditional «subject - predicate form of proposition, and the philosophical tradition derived from it.»

What these morons continually fail to realize is the enormously significant and sophisticated / progressive philosophical tradition that was established in that age that has been commonly attributed to the Judaic teachings of Jesus Christ.

She is particularly fond of the stoic thinker Chrysippus, whom she thinks to be «the most profound thinker on emotion in the entire philosophical tradition.»

Second: How does Taylor stand with respect to this philosophical tradition?

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

These two points, that the creative process includes the lure of a telos and that the agent of creativity is responsible for its activity, serve as a basis for the suggestion that self - determination in creative processes can be conceived in terms of two notions familiar to the philosophical tradition: eros and agape.

In fact the classical theological and philosophical tradition of Christendom has always known this, and repeated it again and again, often at the cost of severe intellectual exertions.

It is true to the insight of the Bible, which the philosophical tradition has tended to obscure behind the impassive mask of absolute, static being.

He distinguishes three types of empiricism, what we may call the «classical» empiricism of the modem philosophical tradition, and two more or less revisionary forms thereof.

This principle forms the fundamental presupposition of Whitehead's «onto - cosmology», 25 and he himself sees in it the essential difference between his metaphysics and the ontologies and cosmologies of the philosophical tradition (cf. PR 27).

In that second stage of enquiry into truth and value, it must at least be in dialogue with the great philosophical traditions, even if it shall not finally fall under their sway.

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.

He shows how critics rooted in one philosophical tradition typically interpret other traditions in ways that are different from the interpretations of those who inhabit those traditions.

Old - line Christians may think that conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the modern world.

This modern program has recently, and justifiably, been criticized from within the dominant philosophical tradition.

Perhaps the most pervasive assumption in the Occidental philosophical tradition has been that there exist unique individuals capable of acting responsibly and morally in an ordered, temporal continuum.

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?

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.

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.

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

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).

In the philosophical tradition the metaphysicians have usually taken one of two opposing routes to the knowledge of what it means to be.

Even so, today it is not uncommon for the religious freedom concept to be swallowed up in the separation concept because freedom here as elsewhere is interpreted in purely negative terms, as the liberal philosophical tradition tends to treat it.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

It is not necessary to raise the question as to whether van Buren is guilty of taking this philosophical tradition too seriously, of receiving the impressive blows it is able to deliver with too radical a retreat.

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.