Sentences with phrase «emphasis upon reason»

Nevertheless, his treatment of the self remained Augustinian in its emphasis upon reason.

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Implied in much of the new religious emphasis is an attack upon reason.

One reason for the highly abstract conceptual mapping of systems concepts is found in the procedural recommendations of the hypothetical - deductive method, with its emphasis upon the axiomatic approach.

What the schools of Tradition agree upon is that the self involves both reason and will; what divides them is the emphasis upon the one or the other.

What is important in all this for our story of the self is Augustine's emphasis upon knowledge and reason.

Rather than these unity - level «rational structures» being intrinsic to what «modern scientific reason» discovers a posteriori, the Pope argues that science's «methodology -LSB-... is] based» upon «acceptance of] the rational structures of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a given» (our emphasis).

The resurrections (or more correctly resuscitations) which, according to ancient tradition had been performed by Elijah and Elisha, depended partly upon this belief.10 The same belief supplies us with the reason why the story of the raising of Lazarus lays such emphasis on the fact that he «had already been four days in the tomb».

The reason for this is to be found not only in the liberal emphasis upon the goodness of God.

Reason is the organ of emphasis upon novelty.»

cf Faith Editorial January 2007, under the subtitle «Islam and the Nature of God», for our discussion of the Pope's emphasis that for Christians human reason is uniquely based upon the rational nature of God, or Logos.

Since part of the practical function of reason is to effect our survival, and since in employing the second survival strategy reason becomes «the emphasis upon novelty» (FR 20), it is easy to understand how someone in a basically conserving society would value up novelty and future - oriented behavior to the seeming exclusion of order and the preservation of the past via efficient causation (feelings of «causal efficacy»).

The emphasis was upon reason, often in isolation from other human faculties.

But the subsequent discussion showed that Bultmann was concerned to minimize this element of continuity for the following reasons: (1) he was fearful that historical research might come to be used to legitimate the kerygma, which would be a denial of its nature as kerygma; and (2) he insisted that there can be no real material continuity, because the kerygma lays major emphasis upon a particular understanding of the death of Jesus, whereas we can never know how the historical Jesus understood his own death, and must always face the possibility that he simply broke down before it.

He focuses upon the Pope's emphasis, which we have drawn out before in this column, that the influential depiction of reason through a reductionist philosophy of science denies reference to a transcendent organiser and can not found itself.

For this reason, great emphasis is put upon the breath.

In sum, greater emphasis upon technology and process among corporate departments and service providers is a key reason why market share has shifted to them and away from firms.

Noncognitive skills are an ongoing hot topic in education, and for good reason — there is an extraordinary movement of renewed emphasis upon social and emotional learning (SEL), the kind of learning that research has well established is essential for all kids.