Sentences with phrase «by philosophical ideas»

One sees from Gingerich's absorbing narratives the extent to which scientists are sometimes guided by philosophical ideas.

Not exact matches

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

Whatever roles philosophical and theological ideas played in the debates over heliocentrism, biological evolution, and the Big Bang theory, the scientific issues were eventually settled by more and better data and by considerations that were purely «scientific» in the modern sense.

R. G. Collingwood, in his well - known book, The Idea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.&raIdea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.&raidea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.»

«2 The larger issue raised by Kaplan's transnaturalism and Whiteheadian process theology is the coherence of the idea of a non-absolute God, within the framework of religious naturalism, as a theological and philosophical concept.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

For Wilson these roots and some of this knowledge are themselves guided by what he believes are the universal and eternal principles of Darwinian evolutionary theory Wilson never acknowledges that, by relying on that theory and by generalizing it, he subscribes to principles that transcend particular histories just as surely as do the ideas of the theological and philosophical transcendentalists.

It was fascinating, and I think important, to see the development over the centuries of the philosophical rift which eventually grew between science and religion, as a result of which many scientists (although by no means all) abandoned any idea of a Creator God.

Humboldt as an empiricist, psychologist, and historian was ever attracted by the riddle of individuality, while his philosophical interest forced him to seek the idea or norm in which reality appears idealized.

Thus, waxing philosophical, he agrees that «power» is a relational concept and yet at the same time he considers it to be a simple idea, one that can not be «divided» further, being but one uniform appearance or conception of the mind — it is received by observing both in ourselves and in natural bodies an ability to produce various effects.

In the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AI).

If we take the idea of query seriously, then the merit of a philosophical system rests in its capacity to promote query, not in its completion as defined by its author.

[4] Atheism in general doesn't give us the philosophical tools to sort out when a greater loss is worth the price of ending the suffering of others — and in fact it can create dilemmas like the problem of what to do with children who are being indoctrinated by their parents into ideas we do not agree with.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

World: You're getting bogged down in Western philosophical and scientific ideas of defining things by splitting them down to their lowest levels, but then failing to put them together again and see the whole ineteraction of the one body that is the Universe.

The Hebrew mind, as represented in the Scriptures, did its thinking in a metaphorical fashion; indeed it might be said that the Jews thought mythologically, if by this word we mean that they thought in pictures and in stories, rather than in abstract concepts and Greek philosophical ideas.

Our Western Christian thinking is qualified in its deepest philosophical and methodological ideas by a personalistic idea of God.

The second preconceived idea held by certain historians of religions, notably that it is necessary to consult another «specialist» for the total and systematic interpretation of religious facts, is probably explained by the philosophical timidity of many scholars.

Karl Rahner's idea of «anonymous Christians» was one answer to that question, backed by a complex philosophical and Christian theology.

To turn attention away from these ideas because they are philosophical is to allow them a tyranny over theological work that can be dispelled only by critical and self - conscious reflection about them.

I suggest further that many of the problems with which theologians now wrestle arise out of assumptions formed for them by more or less consciously accepted ideas of a philosophical sort.

Marxist, in general refers to someone who studies, learns, analyses, accepts and acts according to a wide socio - economico - politico - philosophical range of ideas & theories that were introduced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, mainly on their analysis of the capitalistic system and their introduction of scientific socialism & their analysis towards the communist society.

But there's more to this film when it gets into analyzing the idea of comedy, and honesty, and it becomes a remarkably philosophical film by the end.

«Having a robust way of perceiving the world is a pretty good starting point to talk about psychological health» says Warner, «And by making gameplay around these mechanics, we can explore a lot of fun ideas without being overly cerebral or choking the game with philosophical dialogue.»

Spearheading this movement, Robert Irwin began to take ideas from philosophical inquiries into the nature of human experience and radical advances in perceptual psychology and combine them with the immersive abstraction that had been pioneered by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.

Occupying an important position in contemporary art practice, Lutz Bacher's oeuvre is an enigmatic and eclectic mixture of ideas, full of personal and philosophical significance and frequently driven by tactical humor.

To this end, it intermixes biographical facts, a selection of texts by the writers and artists who influenced Klein, a glossary of keywords with Klein's own definitions derived from published texts as well as previously unpublished manuscripts and a selection of critical writings with analyses of Klein's philosophical ideas by the author and editor of this volume, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann.

He examines how we are influenced by words — lyrics in particular - that suggest ideas of the ways in which we believe certain romantic and philosophical «truths».

He was fascinated by the poetic expression of philosophical ideas, often inscribing texts in stone to be placed in garden settings.

This show includes paintings that evoke a multitude of social and philosophical ideas, as well as a multiplicity of attitudes to nature, not only its changing moods, but also the feelings called forth by them in the painter's own mind — from the effusiveness of Spring Rain to the tumult of Stormy Sea and the dense melancholy of Damp Autumn.

Philosophical ideas lay behind many of the best works produced by Italians after 1945.

This symposium — moderated by Mark Nash and Allison Thompson — examines «the intersection of the artistic, theoretical, literary, and cultural dimensions» in the work of Frank Bowling, the Guyanese - born, London - based artist whose work is «deeply connected to, and inflected by Édouard Glissant's notion of a «Caribbean Discourse» — the idea that the entire critical literature and art created within the historical complex of the Black Atlantic is an ongoing process of philosophical reflection.»