Sentences with phrase «great philosophical traditions»

In that second stage of enquiry into truth and value, it must at least be in dialogue with the great philosophical traditions, even if it shall not finally fall under their sway.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

But with these reflections Whitehead takes a stand against a great philosophical tradition.

Not exact matches

Although his way of working this out may not appeal to us, with our quite different scientific knowledge, and our own philosophical idiom, the point here is that Aquinas, like the other theologians of the great Christian tradition, was no «spiritualist», denying or minimizing the material world and the physical body and their ways of working.

Within the great Christian tradition, revelation does not primarily suggest the disclosure of a set of truths — be they ethical or religious or philosophical — that give information to men about their actual behavior or their ideal behavior, or even about the nature of the universe and the meaning which it may possess.

Fusing the traditions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of abstract painting with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined with the earthy tangibility of paint.