Sentences with phrase «from philosophical ideas»

The road to understanding what formalism in art really is about takes us from philosophical ideas of Plato, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, through the experiments of the avant - garde, all the way to contemporary ideal of socially - engaged and conceptual art.

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«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world - view in which the idea of God encountered in human history is thoroughly integrated.

One sees from Gingerich's absorbing narratives the extent to which scientists are sometimes guided by philosophical ideas.

Toward this end, Swain counsels against Barth's rejection of the «analogy of being,» the idea that we can know truths about God beginning from the philosophical consideration of creation.

The idea of an eternal people freed Jews from the theological and philosophical problem of an eternal God.

John wishes to emphasize that the Word of God had «descended» from the realm of the Spirit and had become no longer a mental image, no longer a philosophical idea, but a human being in history.

This comes out clearly in one of his latest statements about the therapeutic» function of philosophy as applied to social issues: «helping people get out from under outdated philosophical ideas, helping break the crust of convention.»

Did you know that much of our modern theology is founded upon philosophical ideas from Aristotle and Plato?

And after finishing the article — «OK, never - mind, we basically agree on the most important ideas, he just approaches thinks with a philosophical framework so incongruous from mine that even the things we agree on are going to sound totally different.»

Many have adopted ideas from philosophers, and others have generated philosophical ideas of their own.

R. G. Collingwood, in his well - known book, The Idea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.&raIdea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.&raidea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.»

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

It aims at interpreting religious ideas, acts, and institutions «as they present themselves,» giving due consideration of their «intention» and apart from any preconceived philosophical, theological, metaphysical, or psychological theory.

These ideas are drawn from our human experience, and when given a critical analysis and elaborated, they are philosophical concepts.

I therefore see as converging toward the idea of a post-Hegelian Kantianism the spontaneous restructurings of our philosophical memory and those which proceed from the shock effect of the kerygma of hope on the philosophical problematic and on the structures of its discourse.

What is striking is that reflection coming out of life experience and Biblical study in communities that have taken for granted the reality of God converge so far with the ideas of God that come from those who have wrestled with, and proposed alternatives to, the dominant philosophical views.

Aside from the philosophical implications of the idea that bringing up children is dishonest, this can hardly be taken as a serious view of child - raising and its problems.

It is an idea running from Locke to Kant to Rawls to Habermas, but one having philosophical opposition running from Burke to Hegel to Gadamer to MacIntyre» mutatis mutandis.»

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.

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

The philosophical idea of substance arises from reflection about the kinds of objects with which we are surrounded: houses and cars, sticks and stones, planets and stars, chairs and tables.

The underlying philosophical position of traditional theology and its difference from the presuppositions of process thought can perhaps best be illustrated when we analyze the meaning of «perfect» and see its application to the Christian idea of God.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

The classical Christian idea of an aloof, immutable, independent God, representing simplicity and rest, he argues, has much more in common with certain philosophical abstractions inherited from the Greeks.

From the philosophical point of view, the central problem of ethology is the relation between purposiveness («purpose» here has the usual meaning — a striving after a future goal retained as some kind of an image or idea) and directiveness.

There is nothing in this study to indicate that Whitehead got any of his philosophical or religious ideas directly from his contact with the Bible.

To turn attention away from these ideas because they are philosophical is to allow them a tyranny over theological work that can be dispelled only by critical and self - conscious reflection about them.

Seventhly, the Uganda people and king Mwanga feared the wrath of God as they had an animistic philosophical idea of wrath from God if they displeased their pagan and tribal gods.

I think academic philosophy is helpful only in a negative sense — that is, sometimes physicists get impressed with philosophical ideas, so that it can be helpful to hear from experts that those ideas have been challenged within the philosophical community.

«Einstein's ideas,» his friend the physicist Max Born wrote over half a century ago, «have given the physical sciences the impetus which has liberated them from outdated philosophical doctrine, and made them one of the decisive factors in the modern world of man.»

This panel, which brings together scholars from Europe and Latin America, will present historical and philosophical perspectives on the notion of deschooling, considered both as idea and ideal.

Spearheading this movement, Robert Irwin began to take ideas from philosophical inquiries into the nature of human experience and radical advances in perceptual psychology and combine them with the immersive abstraction that had been pioneered by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.

His installation entitled «Languaging,» shown at 18th Street Arts Center (2002), signifies the ongoing transition of an idea from philosophical to practical form, or from visual to textual.

His films, often described as «visual essays», move from rhetorical questions to factual scientific statements, presenting concepts and ideas that emerge through philosophical texts and research.

Be it drama or comedy alike, exploring existential philosophical or simply very personal ideas and thoughts on the human condition and working from deep down my own emotional pipeline.»

From his early period he drew from the essence of German expressionism and Surrealism, utilizing rich religious and philosophical ideas and emphasizing the spiritual property of paintFrom his early period he drew from the essence of German expressionism and Surrealism, utilizing rich religious and philosophical ideas and emphasizing the spiritual property of paintfrom the essence of German expressionism and Surrealism, utilizing rich religious and philosophical ideas and emphasizing the spiritual property of painting.

To this end, it intermixes biographical facts, a selection of texts by the writers and artists who influenced Klein, a glossary of keywords with Klein's own definitions derived from published texts as well as previously unpublished manuscripts and a selection of critical writings with analyses of Klein's philosophical ideas by the author and editor of this volume, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann.

Becoming Animal / Becoming Landscape explores works from the Belkin's permanent collection through the lens of recent philosophical ideas, questioning and breaking down old borders between the human and the non-human.

This show includes paintings that evoke a multitude of social and philosophical ideas, as well as a multiplicity of attitudes to nature, not only its changing moods, but also the feelings called forth by them in the painter's own mind — from the effusiveness of Spring Rain to the tumult of Stormy Sea and the dense melancholy of Damp Autumn.

The work engages with transience as a photographic, cultural and philosophical idea and is created through an expanded response to image production from stills and video to CAD imaging and desktop recording.

It will include studio - based typologies, observations at the sites of meteoritic events, accompanying text and historic images, following the idea that a meteorite can be looked at from many different angles: cosmological, astronomical, geological, philosophical, historical and emotional.

The content of the projected script ranges from the philosophical to the personal, and is peppered with references to artists and writers who have explored the idea of the «flâneuse» — or woman traversing the city in observational mode — as well as referring to the household and administrative actions the two undertake as they speak.

Mr. Asher came of age in the 1960s with a wave of revolutionaries like Joseph Kosuth, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Haacke and Dan Graham, who worked — for reasons that were political, philosophical and sometimes poetic — to push art more fully into the realm of ideas and acts and away from objects.

An important thing in there too is a fairly philosophical idea about welcoming everybody, about including others who are different from you.