Sentences with phrase «century philosophical thought»

He began with conceiving God as a philosophical principle and ended with one of the most profound conceptions of God in 20th century philosophical thought.

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Truth and Method is «one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century» because it leads us where the modern mind» «which as a matter of fact is in a hopeless impasse,» notes Gadamer» will not go, resists going with every thought, yet absolutely needs to go.

On this basis existentialist philosophers revolted against the deterministic philosophical theories which dominated a great deal of thought at the end of the nineteenth century.

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

Systematic philosophical thinking about urbanism antedates Christianity, going back to Aristotle, who wrote some four centuries before Christ that the best life for human beings is lived in community with others, and most particularly in a polis.

We are so accustomed to thinking in other ways, thanks to centuries of philosophical and religious teaching, that we are very ready to talk about substantial selfhood.

His founding of Process Studies and editing it for a quarter century retained for a Whiteheadian form of process thinking a visibility it would otherwise have lost in an unfavorable philosophical environment.

First, I am a professor of philosophy and a professional philosopher, I guess you could say, privy to the philosophical movements of the twentieth century, many of which, for better or worse, have had an influence on theology and thinking about religion.

Called «The Religion of Healthy - Mindedness» by William James in his classic work, Varieties of Religious Experience, New Thought is a spiritual and philosophical movement associated with the founding of a number of ideologically - related churches in the late 19th and early 20th century United States.

It is to be remembered that at this time New Testament scholarship had little if any awareness of the apocalyptic ground of the New Testament, the transformation of New Testament scholarship entailed by this realization did not occur until the end of the nineteenth century, but already the original apocalyptic ground of Jesus and of primitive Christianity was profoundly recovered and renewed in the radically new imaginative vision of Blake, just as it was in the radically new philosophical thinking of Hegel.

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.

For centuries Jewish thought has attempted to adapt itself to foreign philosophical categories, and Wyschogrod's bold return to biblical sources provides a platform upon which to critique even such a revered figure as Maimonides.

The persistence of this belief has had disastrous influence through the centuries on philosophical and theological thought, and upon physical theories as well.

Although Hartshorne's line of thought has been quite separate from the dominant philosophical currents of the century his life has spanned, he has not been personally separate from the leading actors.

Turing's paper was philosophical, not mathematical, and his answer non-rigorous: He believed that by century's end, computers would think, in the sense of being able to pass the test.

«A key question now is to know how the human of the 21st century can reactivate his animality and animalize himself anew when all Western thought since the Greeks tells him that he is human precisely because of this rupture with animality,» Lestel suggests, building on his critique of the very philosophical foundations of the ethological tradition.

The title of this project programmatically refers to the namesake book by Hannah Arendt, whose philosophical thought tried to answer the key question of the past century — how to be and stay Human in the face of the drama of History.

Though the definition of «Pataphysics — a school of thought that playfully rejects the objective truths of empiricism — is intentionally vague, its implications run deep through many of the important philosophical movements of the 20th century.