Sentences with phrase «ask philosophical questions»

She used her art to ask philosophical questions about racism, poverty and the brutalities of the war in Vietnam.

This could lead to a lesson asking philosophical questions (P4C).

Colin Gleadell asks a philosophical question as talk swirls of $ 1 billion in sales taking place at ArtBasel (which seems, well, aggressive.)

Not exact matches

To get the most out of each conversation, I recommend asking your team members to come prepared with questions and ideas regarding strategy, as well as philosophical conversation material.

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I asked the question to understand how (and if) it is possible to separate science from atheism in the minds of believers so we can truly discuss the concepts based on their evidentiary merits, not necessarily their philosophical implications if indeed there are any to be had.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

A similar but less partisan question is the philosophical one asking why it is that...

One final philosophical question: Even if we agree that benevolence is supererogatory in a way that non-malevolence is not, even if we agree that our duty to give and help is much weaker than our duty not to hurt, we can still ask if giving, helping, and bestowing can in some cases become wicked: wicked because it is debilitating to the self - reliance of the recipient; wicked because it deprives one of the capacity to give also to others; wicked because it infantilizes the recipient; wicked because it cements a bond between giver and taker that should be much more evanescent.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

Although a man can carry out detailed investigations without asking philosophical and theological questions, religious faith is indirectly relevant to research.

In an era of crisis, not only in monetary terms, this book asks the pertinent question: Can faith in education fill the philosophical and spiritual vacuum of the third millennium?

2) You can maintain your position from a faith perspective, and say this, but then I'd have to seriously question [a] your historical integrity (for example, the historical position of Revelations as canon, although more of a debate than the other texts, was still NOWHERE NEAR contestable enough for you to draw this sort of conclusion) and [b] your philosophical integrity (for example, if you dismiss Revelations because it doesn't support your position, i'm going to ask: by what authority do you think you have the right to discern this?

That is a very deep philosophical question you ask VoR.

The question that Christians (or other religious people) should ask themselves here is philosophical rather than sociological: Granting (as I think we must) that modern science has given us new and often penetrating insights into reality and that modern technology has enormously increased our control over our lives, is it not possible that in the process some very precious things have been lost?

A similar but less partisan question is the philosophical one asking why it is that the ultimate explanatory structure of reality, if such a structure exists and whether or not it is divine, should happen to be just as it is.

These are either excruciatingly deep philosophical questions, or else they're questions you ask people when they are really stoned.

As is widely recognized, he is a philosophical theologian willing to ask basic metaphysical and moral questions and to engage in a close dialogue with the natural and social sciences just as many seem to be retreating from these conversations.

I am not asserting that kind of conservatism is good or bad as a starting point for looking at policy, I am merely asking a question about how someone ascribing to this viewpoint would reconcile a potential philosophical inconsistency.

The program, with Sagan's poetic strolls through time and space, asked big philosophical questions with answers that amounted to a college level introduction to cosmology.

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A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.

The puzzles are challenging and at the same time The Swapper asks some surprisingly philosophical questions, which makes the story interesting.

These slides ask students philosophical questions.

For a FREE DEMO please search: «The Philosophical Debate Generator [Free Demo Version]» Uses: - P4C (Philosophy for kids)- Form time activities - R.S. / Philosophy / Citizenship cover lessons - Debating societies - Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons Discussions follow one of four formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position.

At the end of the day, they sat down with me and asked a bevvy of questions, both practical and philosophical.

If we know that one child has a very spatial or visual - spatial way of learning, another child has a very hands - on way of learning, a third child likes to ask deep philosophical questions, the fourth child likes stories, we don't have to talk very fast as a teacher.

Meanwhile, the Chinese are asking intriguing questions, and we are happy to engage in philosophical conversations with the best thinkers from both countries.

The article offers a process for groups of educators to understand their own philosophical judgments by asking such questions as, What motivated me to go into teaching?

Set deep in suburbia, this humorous novella asks the reader a few deep philosophical questions about their rubbish.

It turns out that the philosophical line between human and machine can actually be quite blurry, and the questions you are asked never seem to have easy answers.

The Austrian sculptor would likely approve of such unexpected usage of his work, invested as he is in using the banal forms of everyday life to ask comical yet probing philosophical questions.

... arts journalists started asking lots of money - centric, sometimes philosophical questions — about perceived cultural value; what a work can really be said to be «worth»; and why art of every age is now perceived as a kind of currency in its own right.

As artist Ionat Zurr, who co-founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project with Oron Catts in 1996, said in a recent talk in Edinburgh: «The role of the artist is to be somewhat critical, to ask: «How do those things happening in the lab affect philosophical, ontological, and ethical questions in society?»»

Clearly there is no absolute answer to this question — there is always some philosophical possibility of error in any measurement — but I'm asking it in a spirit of practicality.

That is but one of the philosophical questions you may ask yourself after reading The Existential Exercise of Finding State Court Materials Online, a post by Rachael Samberg at Legal Research Plus.

In fact, they were the people who quickly began asking more philosophical questions (which Echo, of course, couldn't answer), eager to strike up a dialog rather than treat the rudimentary AI as a simple search engine in a box.