Sentences with phrase «as nominalism»

This disturbed processing, embedded as it became in the dialectical method of inquiry (thesis, antithesis, synthesis), generated polarized and competing forces: rival powers (such as popes versus emperors), competing orders (such as the simple Franciscans versus the sophisticated Dominicans), competing pieties (such as natural realism versus Gothic symbolism), and competing inquiries (such as nominalism's empiricism versus realism's idealism) The dialectic between spirit and matter was pressed beyond its limits, resulting in both collapse and rigidification.

Not exact matches

Because Dreher's account of the historical relationship between realism and nominalism is basic to his subsequent argument, it can not be dismissed as a side issue.

What nominalism called in question is the universal, those principles and causes larger than the mechanism of nature or ideas generated out of nature seen as mechanistic by man.

That may mean rejecting the medieval world» the «Dark Ages»» or embracing the medieval world as if that were our most recent Eden, nominalism poisoned our intellectual life, whether one takes himself to be of the left or right, insofar as one justifies order merely in terms of history or these mechanisms collectively referred to as «nature.»

It is precisely in the introduction of formative elements as conditions of the possibility of actual entities, according to Collingwood, that Whitehead differs from Alexander.25 Furthermore, the status of one of these formative elements, the «eternal objects,» is analogous to that of the «abstract entities»: 26 both are situated between the realism of ideas and pure nominalism.

Even such a brilliant and subtle study as The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Gillespie, simply assumes that nominalism attained victory over the older tradition because of an intrinsic superiority.

This is explained as the philosophical change from realism to nominalism, from a belief in universals as real to a belief in the fundamental reality of unrelated particulars.

The very intellectual weakness of keeping science at arm's length invites the dominant dualistic mindset to interpret scientific as well as other observational data in a reductive manner, which leads to nominalism.

Often presented as a crucial moment in the history of epistemology, nominalism also had a tremendous influence on moral theology.

Further, the practice of appreciative perception is likely to show us that appreciation and discernment of worth need not be limited by a nominalism which gives moral consideration only to individuals, unusual as the idea may seem.

Though he is especially known for his seminal books on Marcel Duchamp such as Pictorial Nominalism and Kant after Duchamp, this time around he set out to revisit the history of Modernist painting which Hilma af Klint is belatedly entering.