Philosophy and theology might make an important contribution to this fundamentally
epistemological question by, for example, helping the empirical sciences to recognize a difference between... evolution as the origin of a succession in space and time, and creation as the ultimate origin of participated being in essential Being.»
Not exact matches
The Foucault
by whom we are first moved to
question modernity, the Foucault
by whom we are first shown the absurdity of the modern project from its beginning, is not the Foucault of the
epistemological Order of Things and Archaeology of Knowledge, but the Foucault of the historical Discipline and Punish, Madness and Civilization, and Birth of the Clinic.
Let me first of all elaborate on this
epistemological standpoint
by dealing with the
question of whether there can be development or innovation in religious beliefs and in their transmission.
Brightman's reasoning is from the «inside out» (empirical) in both cases; in this regard he calls himself an «empiricist of consciousness, 48 which also explains his willingness, evidently motivated
by a fondness for his method, to collapse
epistemological and metaphysical
questions.
Brightman seems to recognize that this is a stretch for him, for when he asks of himself the same
question after his correspondence with Hartshorne has ceased, Brightman expresses
epistemological diffidence, counterbalanced only
by a peculiar attitude of Scriptural faith:
Barth, because he makes an attempt»... to answer the methodological and historical problems raised
by the nineteenth century
by foreclosing all discussion of
epistemological questions and insisting that the subjectivity of Jesus Christ, the God - man, is the only important reality confronting the mind of man.»
Indeed, even if one begins with broadly
epistemological considerations, as I have done here, one can only avoid asking and answering the
question wherein the ontic correlate of such a noetic pole consists
by a failure to be fully critical in taking account of what one always already presupposes.
were superseded
by the
epistemological question.