Sentences with phrase «for objective truth»

The search for objective truth in shared human pleasures is the most inhumane of all pursuits and should be defied and resisted at every turn.

Consequently, the Church needs to make philosophical arguments in the public square, ones that show that the world is inherently intelligible (and that our minds are naturally made for objective truth).

Those that didn't find this in their true, honest, sincere, search for objective truth used flawed reasoning.

What I am suggesting is not merely being charitable and tolerant to others who are different, but rather that this respect for difference, openness, is an indispensable part of the search for the objective truth of one's own beliefs.

Search for truth — A constant search for objective truth, with the understanding that new knowledge and experience constantly alter our imperfect perception of it.

Not exact matches

The full truth is that I have nothing against trend lines, and yes I understand that there are «objective» methods out there detailing the «correct» method for choosing which two points to connect to draw a proper trend line (DeMark, Magee, I think Pring to name a few).

«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

But Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's ultimate objective.

People are evil, and in need of a savior, and no atheist can make an exclusive claim otherwise without claiming to have a basis for their «objective» truth.

Fortunately for us, the argument ought not to be about our personal validity, but to the objective claims we make about the truths of scripture and the essential elements that genuine Christian faith has and does contribute to society.

The Internet offers a wealth of information sources willing to tell you whatever you want to believe, so you are not very careful to be objective in your search for truth it's unlikely you'll fine it.

It attacks liberalism for its commitment to universal and objective truth.

In what is called an abductive approach, the method is to look at the various secular and naturalistic ethical theories in a generous way, but then to show just how inadequate they are in giving grounding for objective moral truth.

But equally far from the subjectivism of the romantic or the «I believe because it is absurd» of the mystic, that sacrifice is called for precisely in the name of objective truth comprehended through the «clear, logical cognition» exemplified by the modern scientist.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

But Buber believes that Paul means by faith belief in a truth, a kind of objective knowledge, whereas surely for Paul faith in Christ is never separated from love to all the members of the body of Christ and to every man.

After a sketch of the standoff between views of theology as something «objective» and views of it as something «subjective,» Wood concurs with Farley's reasons for rejecting the picture of theology as universally valid «objective» truths and factual knowledge.2 He also rejects another type of «objective» view of theology, represented by Hough and Cobb, which defines theology by reference to the purposes of professional church leadership (93).

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

She calls it «strong objectivity,» and its particular strength rests of the participation of many knowers, beginning with the least favored, and requires a commitment to critical examination of the causes of beliefs, especially those that pass for «objective truths.

Tell us all the objective Reality of what good has been provided by religion for thousands of years that make people hold on to it in spite of already knowing these wonderous truths you keep reminding us about over and over about like a broken record.

Apparently there is a longing on the part of laymen for the preacher to give an honest, intelligent, passionate, personal presentation of Christian conviction rather than the coldly rational, dispassionate presentation of objective truth.

Where shall we place true heroism, where look for true greatness, where recognize objective truth?

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

Christianity, and in fact any religion that believes in a personal god / creator, has two fundamental flaws that have absolutely nothing to do with science and everything to do with logic, which incidentally forms the foundation for the only universal / objective truths of reality (putting aside the Cartesian dualism problem).

Why has science come to be regarded as the proper method for seeking the objective truth in the modern age?

Instead of holing up in one's own limited point of view and claiming objective truth for it, one has to be willing to let one's spirit expand — flow outward with genuine understanding — to find the objective truth.

«If [Man] were only a creature of transient sensations and impulses, of an ever coming and going succession of intuitions, fancies, feelings, then nothing could ever have for him the character of objective truth or reality.

If alienation from the objective («faith,» «God,» «truth») were the sum total of mischief done, the issue could easily enough be resolved by opting for unbelief.

I'd gotten so good at critiquing all the fallacies of opposing worldviews, at searching for truth through objective analysis, that it was only a matter of time before I turned the same skeptical eye upon my own faith.

This seems to exhaust the possible totality of reality, and so if there is anything for theology to do, it can only be to provide a poetic accompaniment comprised of pleasing imagery but not revealing any objective truth.

Offering six purposes for elevating truth as our highest priority, Guinness declared that honoring God, knowing God, empowering human enterprise, providing a gospel foundation, combating repression and transformation in Christ — all depended on a high view of objective truth.

Rather I mean what Kierkegaard meant by truth for the existing individual: «an objective uncertainty held fast in an appropriation - process of the most passionate inwardness.

After all, modern university culture inclines to the proposition that objective truth is one thing; the love that commends it — in the person of a great teacher, for example — is quite another thing.

Can theology point to anything comparably rigorous and objective as a context for testing the truth of faith's trust in the self - emptying mystery of God and the promises given to us in revelation?

The problem with your comparison is that «Christianity» has a ground for their beliefs, and objective standard that determines objective truths and states of correctness or incorrectness.

Yes, I agree, an objective needs to be agreed upon for two people to test many notions of «truth».

Making Gay Okay is a welcome plea for the inviolability of objective truth.

Some believed their Truth (capital T) was objective, 100 % accurate, and permanent, and that for anyone to understand or portray it otherwise (as through this film) would be harmful to the Truth, to those who «have» the Truth, and therefore even harmful to themselves.

As earlier with regard to poetic discourse on the objective side of the idea of revelation, so too on the subjective side, the experience of testimony can only provide the horizon for a specifically religious and biblical experience of revelation, without our ever being able to derive that experience from the purely philosophical categories of truth as manifestation and reflection as testimony.

If an architect is to be faithful to this objective, to provide an environment that encourages the serious search for truth and is a symbol of that search, the direction of one's work is not difficult to prescribe, though it may be hard to accomplish.

There is no external «truth» or «essence» that can serve as an objective test for thc accuracy of philosophical presuppositions beyond the linguistic structure of the text.

This objective immortality through which each event is «saved» by being deposited in the experience of subsequent events is the basis for the truth of the statement that «Darwin lived.

Chad, you nor any other believer has a single bit of objective, factual, verifiable or independent evidence for any god or the alleged truth of The Babble — none, zip, nada, zero.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

If we acknowledge scientific truth to be the most certain we possess, then surely its objective correlatives can be no mere «thought economies» (Mach) or «tools for manipulating nature» (instrumentalism), but they must in some sense be «real.»

When it comes to protein powder supplements, there's one objective source of truth you can use to determine if a product is the right fit for your health needs: the ingredients list.

The objective truth is probably somewhere in between and something more prosaic in this case — KB would offer top quality competition for OG, notwithstanding KB notoriously dislikes competition for places, but is unlikely to be a quantum leap forward in goal tallies.

The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used» by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other objectives).

We take a look at Jeremy Corbyn's support for homeopathy and suggest that it is more than a harmless eccentricity and actually speaks to a politician's commitment to objective truth and scrutiny.

No matter how trivial it might seem, homeopathy provides a moral test because it functions as a litmus test for belief in objective truth.