Sentences with phrase «better than philosophy»

Indeed, practice may often be better than philosophy.

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Hedgeable offers this service, but the company's philosophy is that it's better to minimize losses from the outset rather than use the losses to your advantage.

Their commitment to domestic manufacturing is more than feel - good philosophy — the company's wares are big and bulky (read: expensive to ship), and, since 95 % of its business is in North America, the reduced logistics expenses of local production offset any premiums on labour costs.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied, and a philosophy that can't explain why isn't much good.

Pragmatism as a philosophy, its proponents insist, is more than a matter of what works, but it ought to work better than that.

The Sherburne model, with certain modifications, is closer to Whitehead's intentions than Cobb's model, and fits the spirit of Whitehead's philosophy better.

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.»

I have that philosophy as I'm quite optimistic that tomorrow will always be better than today.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

And philosophy is nothing more than living constantly in light of the finality of death and has no moral content beyond what's good for philosophy.

Rorty's answer is somewhat glib: «The reason I like Hirsch's book better than Bloom's is that it mostly stays away from philosophy and instead asks what concrete institutional factors are responsible for the prevailing cultural illiteracy.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

All of these principles of good manners in play comport best with a philosophy of life guided by devotion to worth, rather than with an acquisitive philosophy.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

Hence, he affirms that there is such a thing as Christian philosophy, which is better as philosophy than non-Christian philosophy and constitutes a proper exercise of Christian thinking.

It is more philosophy than science (not a bad thing), so I personally don't follow it very well.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

The bard expressed it well; «there are more things in heaven & earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy».

Philosophy properly and adequately analyzes God's necessary aspects, but can not tell us what his contingent aspects are, other than the bare assertion that there are such contingent aspects, features of God's activity which happen to be so but just as well could have been otherwise.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

A revised philosophy of mechanism, understood from a contemporary image of a machine, must recognize that a good model is the best vehicle for describing nature, rather than old images of machines, which are not complex enough to represent adequately a reaction of a complex entity with its environment.

According to Strobel, more people than ever are attending apologetics seminars and getting degrees in philosophy in an effort to combat the militant atheism that has surfaced in college classrooms, TV documentaries, and best - selling books.

Americans seem committed to the philosophy «Better dead than red,» while Russians suffer from their own paranoia.

igaftr, the higher purpose is not religion, but for the good of and survival of humanity, Thats what the God of panthrotheism expects from us, there should be paradigm shift in our teleology or purposefullness of our existence from individualism to holism.One direction in achieving this goal is with philosophy, Marxism did wonders to China and Russian economy, but not to Cuba and Korea,, because they stick to hard core philosophy, China and Russia restored capitalism, but the process of Marxism was violent revolution, I believe that through religion we can more than achieved our goals of unifying the world and inculcate us the tenets of putting humanity to the pedestal of Gods Will.

I know the history of philosophy far better than I do current science, except some small parts of the latter having to do with sensation and animal behavior.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

It seems to me that there is no philosophy today which is better equipped than process thought to link together ethical and ecological problems.

As Nadler, who teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, represents it, the Theological - Political Treatise is not a demonic tract at all but a well - intentioned contribution to the construction of a more humane and tolerant world than the one in which its author lived.

The transmission - theory not only avoids in this way multiplying miracles, but it puts itself in touch with general idealistic philosophy better than the production - theory does.

I do not claim that this was Whitehead's final doctrine, but I do maintain that it accords well with many of the distinctive features of «the philosophy of organism» and is better suited to further development, and to application, than is the orthodox interpretation of Whitehead's final synthesis.

The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.

Now I think that in making this distinction Whitehead makes a good and original initial point; because it is the fact that philosophers, by instinct, always think heterogeneously about nature, whereas scientists, equally by instinct, don't, which, more than any one thing, makes the philosophy of science so unreal a subject for actual research scientists.

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

basically, humanist philosophies teach us to be much better people than christian «morals».

Constantly perception flows into itself and into ideas, and ideas into perception, as do ideas flow into each other, better than the best poetry, the best philosophy.

That's his thesis, more or less, and despite considerable meandering through a smorgasbord of thinkers, movements, events, and philosophies, most home - grown and more than a few half - baked, he sustains it or, better put, continually returns to it as his touchstone.

The plain fact remains that the spread of the movement has been due to practical fruits, and the extremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, their only decidedly original contribution to the systematic philosophy of life, should be so intimately knit up with concrete therapeutics.

«Our philosophy has always been that there is no one person or department that is better, or more important, than another,» Miles notes.

Known as the next best place to be if you don't have tickets to the game, RSBG embraces the philosophies of its parent company by serving only fresh, house - made food while its fans browse through sporting events from around the world on one of more than 200 TVs.

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This philosophy makes complete sense — it is much better to eat a whole unit, like an olive, rather than just a part of it, like the extracted olive oil.

«We prefer to lead than follow,» he states, noting that this philosophy earned it the Official Best of Texas Award in 2009.

Westin Hotels & Resorts, a leader in wellness and hospitality for more than a decade, lives its philosophy «For a Better You ™» through the brand's Six Pillars of Well - Being: Feel Well, Work Well, Move Well, Eat Well, Sleep Well and Play Well.

Westin Hotels & Resorts, a leader in wellness and hospitality for more than a decade, lives its philosophy «For a Better YouTM» through the Westin Well - being Movement's six pillars: Feel Well, Work Well, Move Well, Eat Well, Sleep Well, and Play Well.

Often seen bucking the ocean with a basic propane grill (safer and more userfriendly than wood or charcoal in cramped spaces) lashed to their boats, these hard - working men and women are quick to serve up stories of salmon barbecue, with hefty sides of philosophy on the choicest species of fish, the best cut, the perfect marinade or sauce, and trademark techniques.

but u are continuinh talking about «our philosophy»...» our philosophy» like u said has been pass the ball without any idea and without winning any mayor throphy for the last 12 years... so let alexis do what he do... he can lose balls, but he scores, he creates, he fights, give us beautifull moments of football, and better than all, win us games... a team with 11 ozil does nt win games... with 11 alexis yes... so stop demanding more ozils and to criticate alexis... it is not a coincidence that ozil always looks for alexis, its because he knows alexis is the man who can transform him from the most creative player to the assist king, and again, better, eho can help him to win games (i love ozil and he is a winner, do nt missundertand me)..

Makes you wonder why Pirates wouldn't play to their best pitcher's strengths rather than organizational philosophy.

I know he is better than that but it will clash with his philosophy for doing so.

This view, that the end of recreation is to create peace of mind rather than a bulging biceps or a scrapbook of press clippings, is common throughout industry, and Lockheed is a good example of how big business implements this philosophy.