Sentences with phrase «as a philosophy which»

He mentions panentheism as a philosophy which, like Christian theology, avoids the errors of pantheism and deism, but dismisses it as an expression of the Christian view because it is not sufficiently dynamic.

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«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.

For a long time now, advertisers have shared the same philosophy as television programs like The Biggest Loser and Celebrity Fit Club, which capitalize on the notion that you can love yourself if you're fat, but you'll love yourself more if you're thin.

I am not sure what more I would add... That we need to develop utterly new moral, ethical and social philosophies that recognize human consciousness as embedded in a process of evolutionary ecology which is in turn embedded in a thermodynamic process.

He was the inventor of successful products like bifocal glasses, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove (among others) as well as a media magnate where he published several newspapers and his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, in which Franklin used a fictional character to share his own views on topics like politics and philosophy.

«We created this philosophy for the phone, which was designed to be used as little as possible,» Hollier said.

I am a big fan of the Vanguard investing philosophy (which is built on investing in low cost index funds), as well as Vanguard funds in general.

I like Jill's blogs and newsletters because she focuses on driving more sales in less time, which is also a philosophy I practice as I help my clients successfully -LSB-...]

As a Top Contributor in the Social Media Marketing Group one of the largest and most active groups, I have a certain philosophy about using LinkedIn groups for content marketing, which I outlined here http://bluedogscientific.com/2014/09/21/a-philosophy-for-linkedin/

No such thing as one size fits all,» says Kirzner, also an advisor to Canadian robo - advisor firm Wealthsimple, which invests clients» money in a range of ETFs using the same investment philosophy.

A primary advantage of this philosophy arises due to the way the taxation system is setup in the United States, which creates an inherent edge that accrues to the passive strategy as the years go by and compounding works its magic.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

Is that a philosophy, which you stand behind, could you do that from the ethic point of view, when the premium are extremely low, which is at the case... that the spreads are, as I said, between 15 and 20 basis points?

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

I'm not espousing Buddhism, but his philosophy long predates the ideas which Jesus is credited as saying.

There is, as I see it, a paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Roman Catholic theology away from the classical worldview of Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic thinkers in which the philosophy of Aristotle plays such an important role to a more interpersonal approach to the God - world relationship in which God is thought to be constantly interacting with creatures in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.

His answer, which I find attractive, if not altogether satisfying, is that libertarian political philosophy can be regarded as....

The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that, in every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something; and according to the rule of sound philosophy, you are never to employ two principles to solve a difficulty when one will suffice.

This style burgeoned within the «transcendental philosophy of Sancho Panza,» which was for Hamann «as holy as the Samaritan's oil and wine» and that concluded with «his Epiphonem: God understands me!»

Philosophy as taught, he thought, had long ago been «forced out of the context of teaching and living»» which is to say, teaching for living, philosophy understood as «a life that poses the questions of the true and the goPhilosophy as taught, he thought, had long ago been «forced out of the context of teaching and living»» which is to say, teaching for living, philosophy understood as «a life that poses the questions of the true and the gophilosophy understood as «a life that poses the questions of the true and the good.»

Science, or «natural» philosophy (remember that we still handout advanced degrees in the sciences as a PhD, or Doctor of Philosophy) provides material answers to the cosmological questions, but does not answer questions regarding purpose or death, which many (including apparently Ms. Libresco) find philosophy (remember that we still handout advanced degrees in the sciences as a PhD, or Doctor of Philosophy) provides material answers to the cosmological questions, but does not answer questions regarding purpose or death, which many (including apparently Ms. Libresco) find Philosophy) provides material answers to the cosmological questions, but does not answer questions regarding purpose or death, which many (including apparently Ms. Libresco) find difficult.

She uses as bases of her arguments the philosophies of «early Christians,» which I feel bears no weight as they were not the prophets who understood and wrote the holy scripture.

That is why I never speak of «God» in philosophy, but only of «universal will - to - live» which meets me in a twofold way: as creative will outside me, and ethical will within me» (Kraus, p. 42).

Schubert Ogden, for example, says that the principle from which process philosophy and theology begin «requires that we take as the experiential basis of all our most fundamental concepts the primal phenomenon of our own existence as experiencing subjects or selves» (HG 57).

But the question is one that must be faced by any process philosophy or theology which sets out to use an analysis of human experience as a basis for characterizing God.

As itself voiceless and inarticulate, it may be the subject of, but can not itself participate in, that enterprise of dialectic and articulation which philosophy is.

No mention is made of a Supreme Being in his own religious philosophy, only of a mysterious life - force or universal will - to - live which appears as a creative - destructive force in the world around us and as a will - to - self - realization - and - love within us.

On one level, it's wildly out - of - sync with the times, defending such ideas as moral knowledge and design, which contemporary philosophy has long believed to be dead and buried.

The theology and philosophy of Edward Holloway stands alone as a contemporary synthesis which on the one hand rejects any dialectical tension at the heart of being and at the same time upholds the real distinction between matter and spirit.

He takes the same view of them as Polanyi: they are rooted in Scientific Positivism: «In either case we have a monistic philosophy which includes everything within an order of scientific empiricism.»

Birch shares with me both the Christian faith and the influence of Whitehead's philosophy, as well as keen concern about the global disaster toward which the still - dominant trends are leading us.

If we see Hegel's philosophy, at least in part, as an attempt to rethink the Aristotelian metaphysics in the light of the Kantian «Copernican Revolution,» the way in which the Kantian development enabled Hegel to resolve the Aristotelian difficulties emerges.

At any rate, Deleuze himself invites the comparison, referring to Process and Reality as «one of the greatest books of modern philosophy,» and linking his own use of «descriptive notions» to that deployment of «empirico - ideal notions [which] we find in Whitehead» (cf. D&R 284).

And I've gone back to my English major roots which have helped me see Scripture as a collection of various genres — from poetry to history to stories to philosophy to law.

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

This philosophy sees life as a meaningless absurdity, a succession of moments of decision into which no hope enters to provide expectations of a better tomorrow.

The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

And it certainly is relevant to philosophy; for the seven cases (as formal possibilities) follow automatically from concepts which philosophy is bound to use.

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.

The situation as perceived from the point of view of process philosophy is one in which all thinking is done in a concrete, socially determined situation and expresses the interests which have arisen in that situation.

«Modern European philosophy, which had its origins in Plato and Aristotle, after sixteen hundred years of Christianity reformulated its problems with increased attention to the importance of the individual subject of experience, conceived as an abiding entity with a transition of experiences.»

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

On Laplace's «demon» or «superhuman intelligence» to which «nothing would be uncertain and the future, as the past, would be present to its eyes,» cf. R. Harre, «Laplace, Simon Pierre de,» The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed.

If employing the suggested possibilities would actually help Ogden with his stated intention of being more adequate to the «objective» side of faith assertions about Jesus, and if these possibilities are inherent in the process philosophy which Ogden employs, the question raises itself as to why Ogden has not developed his position along the suggested lines.

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.

I confess I am one of that minority of readers who admire Kierkegaard more for his literary and satiric gifts than for his contribution to philosophy — which I regard as dubious — or his understanding of Christianity — which I regard as, in many significant respects, disastrously false.