Sentences with phrase «for philosophizing»

But in order for that philosophizing to occur, something else has to happen first: the thing has to work.

Philosophy has aided theology a good deal within this century in helping it to examine its own language critically, and there is still an important place for philosophizing about the nature of religious experience, and the reality of religious truth.

And for most of the last three - hundred - and - fifty years this effort to ground all human knowledge has focused upon the physical sciences; indeed, «since the period of Descartes and Hobbes, the assumption that scientific discourse was normal discourse and that all other discourse needed to be modeled upon it has been the standard motive for philosophizing.»

Not exact matches

With more than 52 years serving as the chief executive officer of his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet has philosophized about the markets for decades.

Pessimism, while retaining a linear account of time and history, denies this premise, or finds no evidence for it and asks us to philosophize in its absence»

Karl Jaspers put it beautifully: «The spirit of meditation, the capacity for penetrating self - analysis, the way of unbiased thinking, an openness for all substantial possibilities — all of this can not be directly taught, but it can be awakened and trained in the comprehension of great philosophizing.

If they think they have ideas they want to put forward, they should run for office and stop sniping at people who are actually trying to make a difference rather than philosophizing about it.

I'm down for some sci - fi philosophizing — gim me some Blade Runner, Moon or WALL - E any time — but on Westworld it comes at the cost of human stories.

Reasoned Faithedited by Eleanor Stumpecho point books & media, $ 34.95 A decade ago, the well - respected Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga urged Christian thinkers to philosophize not only for skeptics but for their own faith communities.

Christian history shows that the kind of Christian philosophizing Hanby calls for generally follows, not precedes, a society's conversion.

A good example of the type of philosophizing that Rorty rejects can be found in the tortured path of conceptual analysis followed by Peters and Hirst in their quest for necessary and sufficient conditions for the correct use of the term «education.»

In fact, it is necessary not to do so, if we want to philosophize well, for inattention to spatial concepts may interfere with both the theoretical consistency and the practical efficacy of process philosophy.

Martha Nussbaum has devoted the greater part of her career to the rehabilitation of poetry for philosophical purposes» or, if that seems to make poetry merely instrumental to the greater task of philosophizing, Nussbaum can put it in another, more evenhanded way:

The philosopher, even the Christian one, has a distinct task; I am not inclined to say that he brackets what he has heard and what he believes, for how could he philosophize in such a state of abstraction with respect to what is essential?

Anyway, the middle east was completely overrun by the Romans and the evil philosophizing Greeks and the Jewish people were super oppressed and confused and were looking desperately for the Messiah to set them free from this tyranny and wondering what God was up to.

Whitehead is as «post-evolutionary» in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs.18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies; indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories.

Richard Bernstein was even more devastating, declaring that «Ms. Walker seems to have substituted the heartfelt concerns that motivated The Color Purple for a mediocre sort of spiritualist philosophizing that is both cloying and predictable.»

There is a question missing that should be right at the top, for everything else emanates from the answer: What if the church would start to preach and teach the unpolluted Scriptures in their true and accurate contexts, instead of the philosophized version that the world at large has labeled man - made religious myths?

In 1921, he wrote The Heart of Nature; or The Quest for Natural Beauty which is broken up into alternate chapters of description and philosophizing.

You can read, you can prepare, you can think, you can philosophize, you can hypothesize, you can cast judgments on others, but when it's your sweet and perfect and wild and tender baby girl, there, tall and thin and waiting for something, she doesn't even know, does she?

And in a week of unpredictable weather and unpredictable skiing, Lindh's Alaska brand of homespun philosophizing could stand as well for everyone in the Alpine Olympic environment, even the relaxed Mssr.

DeFrancisco chided them for merely «philosophizing» and not staying to hear the concerns from those in the industry who were due to speak next.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

Through the 1970s they philosophized about the Schrödinger equation, produced theories on psychokinesis, and laid the groundwork for quantum mechanics.

First you will have a lot to laugh about and second you can watch them philosophize for minutes.

Whilst Baby Boomers waved Give Peace A Chance placards and Generation Xers philosophized about world hunger whilst watching The Breakfast Club, Millennials found themselves reared on rapid - fire Internet connections, waving handhelds, pressured to succeed academically and at work, wrapped up in a world of virtual relationships via social networking, and with little time for a real social life.

This film maker's supremely tactile, sensual style and his taste for exoticism are captivatingly on display in Stealing Beauty, even if the film's philosophizing sometimes lacks the intellectual heft of a cotton puff.

If Besson's script is plagued by amateurish philosophizing and bad science, his visuals for Lucy are masterful, overwhelming the senses with one audacious image after another.

Angling for a promotion during the ongoing investigation of a racially motivated murder, Robertson (a rakish James McAvoy) plays his co-workers (a closet Nazi, a closet homosexual, a closet drug addict, a doddering idiot, and a woman) off against each other, merrily sucking, fucking, brutalizing, and philosophizing along the way.

Indeed, Ted's search in the Bible for a moral code and means of philosophizing his «romantic illusion problem,» and his agonized indecision between «homely» and beautiful women, draws him strikingly close to Jean - Louis Trintignant in My Night at Maud's.

Glen Powell makes the strongest impression as mustachioed gabber Finnegan, Wyatt Russell loosely fills Rory Cochrane's part in Dazed and Confused as the joint - rolling and philosophizing Willoughby, and Tyler Hoechlin makes for an archetypal team captain as McReynolds, a swaggering hunk by turns upstanding and infantile.

Although its fragmentary structure ultimately undermines its potential for depth, toilet - side philosophizing and rewarding performances from Hartley regulars Parker Posey, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, and Miho Nikaido (the director's real - life wife) make for an enjoyable 85 minutes.

Leung's character is too wimpy to completely engage the audience, and it is Chow who once again takes command, handling the drama and comedy (watch for the hilarious scene where he philosophizes during a bowel movement) with equal capability.

Filled with nostalgia for the kind of future Disney envisioned when he built the original Tomorrowland theme park in the 1950s, Bird's film borrows sci - fi tropes from «The Matrix,» «Stargate» and other films, mooshing them together with CGI action sequences (one of which, a rocket lifting off from the Eiffel Tower, is truly spectacular) and enough philosophizing to fill several TED talks.

But it's beautifully shot, filled with poster - worthy black - and - white images of young, affluent, disaffected South Africans partying, philosophizing, bullshitting among themselves, and trying to explain to a pushy young documentarian how they feel about a friend of theirs who live - streamed her suicide for an avid international audience.

A brief stop for a psychic reading is a highlight, if for no other reason than we get relief from the flirting, fighting, and philosophizing of Brooke and Nick in the form of veteran actor John Cullum — a little bit psychic and a little bit elder wisdom.

Belong to himself, to philosophize; task for the future, even if late.

With more than 52 years serving as the chief executive officer of his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet has philosophized about the markets for decades.

The tenure sets a record for chief executive not only in duration but in value creation and philosophizing.

There is of course a dedicated and professional team of staffs to look after the property as well as a pedicured tropical garden full of exotic plants and orchids with a lawn for barefoot strolling and philosophizing.

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For years I had survived as an unkempt academic, free to meander about and philosophize high - mindedly about the meaning of life.