Sentences with phrase «as subjectivist»

He is primarily concerned to argue, not with Judaism, but with views of revelation which he sees as subjectivist and therefore arbitrary.

Not exact matches

I understand the «reformed subjectivist principle» as both naturalizing the human / historical and humanizing the natural — or perhaps better, as seeking an ontological system midway between them and able to account for both.

I don't think that's the same thing as saying that hermeneutics are a subjectivist scrum, though.

And Whitehead can summarize his own reformed subjectivist principle as follows: «that apart from the experiences of subjects there is nothing, nothing, nothing, bare nothingness.»

The «First Meditation» is essentially an examination of the phenomena of human consciousness, an examination repeated and refined by all phenomenologists and, as we have seen in section II, by Whitehead with his subjectivist principle.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

This second use suggests the following subjectivist thesis about the ontological status of nexus: When a subject actual entity prehends a nexus of antecedent actual entities, that nexus only exists as that subject's «perspective» on those antecedent actual entities (221).

The subjectivist could still read the second part of this paper as providing a definition of what nexus are from the standpoint of a subject actual entity.

Indeed, it is precisely in this respect that he diverges from the traditional subjectivist approach: his insistence on a more primitive mode of experience than is generally recognized as the starting point for metaphysical investigation.

The sensationalist principle asserts that those data are bare sensa, and the subjectivist principle adequately accounts for those sensa as universals.

Having stated his thesis that one must begin with Whitehead's diagnosis, Rorty quotes him as follows: «The difficulties of all schools of modern philosophy lie in the fact that having accepted the subjectivist principle, they continue to use philosophical categories derived from another point of view» (PR 253; WEP 134; italics mine).

However, he overlooks or ignores those texts which explicitly define the subjective principle and uses the term as if it had the same meaning as the term subjectivist bias, which forty in turn confuses with the reformed subjectivist principle.

The subjectivist principle follows from three premises: (i) The acceptance of the «substance - quality» concept as expressing the ultimate ontological principle.

For example, the neopragmatic or deconstructionist ethical programs do presuppose a world beyond the merely posited, linguistic world — foundationless though it may be.11 Further, while the deconstructionist, the neopragmatist, the Wittgensteinian, and the Yale narrativist may be relativists (or relational, perspectival, and contextual thinkers), they are not really subjectivists (acting as though nothing from beyond what we agree on can correct us).

Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).

After the Copernican revolution in philosophy, not of Kant's but of Descartes», however, God was conceived as a deus ex machina, and the subjectivist point of view leaped forward.

Despite his «reformed subjectivist principle,» Whitehead does not, in my opinion, adequately address such high level human experiences as responsibility and our sense of a sustained «being - here» over time.

Editorial review is probably minimal, and may be even less these days as the mainline media face more competition from small and often subjectivist outfits in the blogosphere.