Sentences with phrase «by philosophy as»

How could the richer animistic aspects of Nature, the peculiarities and oddities that make phenomena picturesquely striking or expressive, fail to have been first singled out and followed by philosophy as the more promising avenue to the knowledge of Nature's life?

Nor were they undergirded as effectively by philosophy as were the popular cults in the other three realms.

Not exact matches

By incorporating the 14 Deming principles as a working philosophy, we have been able to strategically increase staff productivity and position the organization as an asset to the manufacturing industry.

The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

Peikoff also helpfully answers the burning pop - culture question: If the movie E.T. is anti-adult and anti-science — as, by objectivist philosophy, it clearly is — does that make it inherently evil and irrational?

While it may seem premature, consider how you'll ultimately manage your exit from the business as this will be determined in part by the structure and operating philosophy you have in place on Day 1 and the financial resources you're able to assemble over the course of your career.

His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel.

One of the company's guiding philosophies is to use «universal design» to create products that are usable by as many people as possible.

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

Hoffman had aspired to become a public intellectual, by writing books and essays as a philosophy professor, but now he was tweaking his plan.

As I listened during our meetings to the details of the Cubs approach, I was struck by the similarities to our own 1871 philosophy.

Then Minister of Culture Jek Yeun Thong defended the measures, saying in Parliament that the local press would remain free as long as «no attempt is made by them, or through their proxies, to glorify undesirable viewpoints and philosophies.»

As you can see, 1 and 2 are directly related to the value investment philosophy developed by Graham and taught in Security Analysis.

As an investor who studies in great detail the strategies and investment philosophies of the great value investors, I have always been intrigued by the debate of value vs. growth.

Stone had lived by Hill's principles and stood as a shining example of his success philosophy.

A primary advantage of this philosophy arises due to the way the taxation system is setup in the United States, which creates an inherent edge that accrues to the passive strategy as the years go by and compounding works its magic.

The philosophy behind it is that Bitcoin should be controlled by nobody so that the system can be as decentralized and distributed as it can possibly be.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

You have a similar philosophy as my late father who only invested on bonds after being burned by stocks.

As things have turned out, there are those that think that it's unChristian and unbiblical and that we're being boastful and arrogant, and those that understand that, in our context and times... we're living by the philosophy that we don't want to ask people to do something that we're not willing to do ourselves.

I have been a philosophy professor for many years and have not been as touched by what it means to be human as I have been today after reading your essay.

In his review of Jean Grondin's recently translated biography of Gadamer, historian of philosophy Richard Wolin asked «how hermeneutics, as personified by Gadamer, fares under real - world conditions.»

This same philosophy is shared by the backwoods rednecks and those that live in trailers as well.

A vivid contrast — and one that points up the shortcomings of philosophy as a guide to life — is provided by the writings of Julius Caesar.

I got an email Monday from a philosophy - professor friend asking what I thought of the new «theory of everything» («TOE») developed by one Garrett Lisi, who apparently is being talked up on the Internet and in some newspapers as a «new Einstein».

A better way into Ralph's thought on this is to note that he was the translator of a neglected classic of contemporary French political philosophy, Philippe Bénéton's Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement (2004, ISI; 1997 publication in France).

Clarke's principal concern here is to elaborate Aquinas» philosophy of the person by connecting it with his whole notion of being «as intrinsically active and self - communicative.»

Let us think of process philosophy as a method designed for use on such occasions, evoked by such disputes as an instrument of reasonable good sense and creative imagination, one that will serve to fix what had broken down and to get things running smoothly once again.

But the question is one that must be faced by any process philosophy or theology which sets out to use an analysis of human experience as a basis for characterizing God.

The academic theorists of the cultural left - those who have been distracted by «mostly apocalyptic French and German philosophy» at the expense of political economy — must recognize that they now need as allies «what remains of the pre-sixties reformist left.»

By the way, as a philosophy major, you surely heard of the Cynics?

For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

Lecture X, pp. 100 - 10; and further, The End of Philosophy (translated by Joan Stambaugh, New York: Harper and Row, 1973), «Metaphysics as History of Being,» pp. 4 - 10 and ff.

By no means did this focus lead to smooth sailing during Morrison's first years in his new job; indeed, he was forced by the situation within his own denomination to alter his editorial philosophy — a development that eventually shaped the magazine's identity as a meeting ground and debating platform for controversial and opposing viewpointBy no means did this focus lead to smooth sailing during Morrison's first years in his new job; indeed, he was forced by the situation within his own denomination to alter his editorial philosophy — a development that eventually shaped the magazine's identity as a meeting ground and debating platform for controversial and opposing viewpointby the situation within his own denomination to alter his editorial philosophy — a development that eventually shaped the magazine's identity as a meeting ground and debating platform for controversial and opposing viewpoints.

There is, so far as I can see, no reason why Whitehead's philosophy would not be enriched by adding Justice to its cultural aims.

Although Polanyi is generous in his praise of «the critical movement in philosophy» describing it as having «enriched us mentally and morally to an extent unrivalled by any period of similar duration», he now wishes to call time on it and, somewhat paradoxically, awarding St Augustine the accolade of «inaugurating for the first time a post-critical philosophy.»

Part One is entitled The Crumbling of the City of God, and the primary disintegrative force is science as presented by Locke and other more recent representatives of Polanyi's critical philosophy movement.

Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic University of America Press, 342 pages, $ 69.95 When the Christian churches incorporated «human rights» as a philosophy and project, did they take on an ethic that corrupts their best....

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

By itself this suggests a highly negative attitude toward the project of introducing God as an explanatory principle into philosophy.

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.

It will be useful at the outset to distinguish two matters that the very title of this response tends confusingly to run together, viz., (1) «Hermeneutics,» in particular hermeneutics as shaped by commitments to the conceptuality and doctrines of process philosophy, and (2) the use of Scripture - as - interpreted in the course of doing theology.

The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.

But he went much further, arguing that Christian philosophy, like that of Aristotle, should be empirical: it should proceed from what can be grasped by the senses — and not, as the Augustinian tradition held, by what can be grasped purely by the Mind.

In more recent times, neo-classical theism (Whiteheadian process philosophy and theology) has reacted against the remote, transcendent, immutable and uninvolved God of classicism by making God totally immanent as evolving Deity.

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

For our own age, overly captivated by abstraction, the task of philosophical reflection is often to reverse the process and recover living experience» living experience of God, who transcends our human conceptions and confronts us as a philosophy - defying Other even as He addresses us and makes Himself available to us.

At the very time that Roentgen and Becquerel were bringing to a close the Newtonian era in science, Henri Bergson and William James were introducing, into philosophy and psychology respectively, the notion of relations as being internal and experienceable; and this was to alter radically the terms of philosophy laid down by Descartes, Kant, and Hegel.