Sentences with phrase «basic philosophical problems»

What we are discussing here is quite different from simply rationally satisfying answers concerning basic philosophical problems.

Dr. Cobb honors Dr. Ford for his independent metaphysical reflections and that he made clear his interest was not merely the scholarly study of particular texts but the solution of basic philosophical problems.

Moreover, within the framework of these rubrics, it does not really make sense why Whitehead from 1912 on wrote and published — in addition to studies in natural philosophy and natural science — a series of what may be called contributions to popular philosophy, a genre which the secondary literature usually passes by In our reconstruction of the development of Whitehead's basic philosophical problem the significance of this phase of his activity becomes obvious.

We can ask why Whitehead did not reformulate his basic philosophical problem in the context of an anthropology which takes into account the processes balancing the concrete individual with its own publicity, which it can only simulate --(in connection with which Whitehead's theory of propositions would offer a still completely unexhausted source for such a development).

Thereby evolved Whitehead's basic philosophical problem — at first as a dark motor of his intellectual development, then, increasingly and more clearly, as the discernible, formulated center of his theory.

As Whitehead's formulation of his program becomes plausible, his basic philosophical problem will become clear: Only a relativistic cosmology, in Whitehead's view, «brings the aesthetic, moral, and religious interests into relation with those concepts of the world which have their origin in natural science» (PR xii / vi).

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But they do believe that the basic principles and structure of his system provide the basis for solving both the philosophical and the theological problems of our own time.

In other words, is there some basic methodology for going about the process of thinking about a fundamental philosophical problem such as the nature of tyranny?

The significant interest in philosophical mathematics follows from the amount of space allotted in IM to the treatment of the three basic problems that had occupied Whitehead in his work up to that point.