Sentences with phrase «held by philosophy»

Among these modern beliefs is the suspicious attitude in which symbolic expression is now held by philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and theology.

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This is the same philosophy held by the late tech innovator Steve Jobs, who said thinking that a great idea is 90 % of the work is completely wrong.

Early indications are Sony plans to do that by changing the closed gate philosophy it has held for so long.

(Aristotle would have approved: he held that history is «the teaching of philosophy by examples».)

But he went much further, arguing that Christian philosophy, like that of Aristotle, should be empirical: it should proceed from what can be grasped by the senses — and not, as the Augustinian tradition held, by what can be grasped purely by the Mind.

In two separate sections, Drs. Capek and Stearns agree and critique each other on their views of determinism as held by contemporary process philosophy.

Roe became so quickly institutionalized because it reflects a philosophy held by many in our society (whether «liberal» or «conservative») that the greatest right is the right to privacy and that the power of the state must regard itself as a means thereto.

If somebody was holding a pot of boiling water above your head, by your philosophy, you could not tell that person to stop, because what if they believed they were doing the right thing?

By that philosophy, I could hold a pot of boiling water above a puppy's head (forgive me if this image disturbs you) and an atheist would certainly tell me to stop.

Only an extreme intellectual shortsightedness, he holds, could make one believe that the theistic question has or can be settled by the old, pre-process philosophy alternatives.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

Consider the following passage: «The organic philosophy does not hold that the «particular existents» are prehended apart from universals; on the contrary, it holds that they are prehended by the mediation of universals» (PR 152/230).

Thus almost all of the church's teachers have held that the existence of God is knowable, if not indeed demonstrable, even to reason, and that the dependence of all things on their primal cause is as definitely affirmed by the truest philosophy as by a theology whose source is the Christian revelation.

In this regard, Hartshorne remains fully consistent with the other principles of process philosophy and abandons entirely the «substance» theory of the human soul or self as held by Plato, Augustine, Kant and other classical Western metaphysicians.

Whitehead holds that the attempt to explain the concrete by constructing it step by step out of the abstract misunderstands the explanatory possibilities of philosophy: «Each fact is more than its forms» (PR 30).

It still holds many people captive by hollow and deceptive philosophy.

... [He was] held in suspicion by some Catholics because of his refusal to make neo-scholasticism, or indeed any philosophy, the centre of the Catholic intellectual enterprise.

Of crucial importance to Galileo's later difficulties were the documents of 1616, when not only was Copernicanism declared to be «foolish and absurd in philosophy and formally heretical,» but Galileo himself was personally warned by Bellarmino not to «hold or defend» the theory.

The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in general.

Although we differ on at least one point in the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy (he holds the system to require that God acts efficiently by mediating to present events finite efficient causes derived from the past), I do not see how his God acts coercively in any of the senses outlined in the previous chapter.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

To pick (somewhat at random) another example of how sound philosophy acts as a corrective to unsound theology, we could imagine someone holding the opinion that bilocation (as experienced by some saints) implies the simultaneous location of a person (body and soul) in two places at once.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

A writer, photographer, pitmaster, restaurant critic and consultant, he is also a Doctor of Barbecue, holding an honorary Ph.B (Doctor of Barbecue Philosophy) bestowed upon him by the prestigious Kansas City Barbeque Society for his expertise and commitment to barbecue.

Hopefully this is the first step of many in beginning to stop being held to ransom by Wenger's ludicrous policies and philosophies.

Baseball is typically bet on the moneyline as opposed to the spread / runline, but the philosophy held by sportsbooks remains the same — set a line that will attract equal money on both sides.

That was the expansion philosophy set by the Heat, and that's what Miami has held to.

These are some people who were holding on to the title of Maulanas, and who never had any definite aim in their political philosophy which could be proven by the fact...

However, by a margin of 64 - 28 percent, voters say the developers have a legal right to build, and that sentiment holds across every region of the state and every major demographic group — be it age, gender or political philosophy.

He holds a Master of Education degree in Management from University of Cape Coast and he is yet to be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Education by the Open University of Malaysia.

Democrats going for either of these GOP - held at - large congressional districts could also be helped by a strong Democratic run for the White House, if that national campaign listens to Howard Dean and his 50 - state campaign philosophy.

I therefore reject the view held by Joseph Spoerl (Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College), who has argued that choosing to conceive a child is to treat the future child as a means to the parents» ends, since the child does not yet exist and therefore can not be benefitted by the choice.

The 79 - year - old writer - director - actor was accompanied by two of the film's stars, Emma Stone and Parker Posey, but it was Allen who held court during the 40 - minute press conference, speaking on a number of topics including world philosophy, remaking his own work and his upcoming Amazon Studios TV series.

A philosophy I hold dear and at the core of the work I have done with TeenTech is that young people deserve a platform for their ideas, which time and again I see compete in real world environments, standing on their own merit and not constrained by age.

I began to more fully embody the philosophy behind the national certification process as I focused on analyzing what was positive about each taped segment, as well as on missed opportunities and on misconceptions held by students.

The district has tried to hold to its own philosophy by piloting new initiatives and refining them before implementing them system - wide.

One teacher explained, for example, that engagement in MELAF helped her realize that the different roles she held as teacher, informal consultant, and professional developer were unified by the standards and the philosophy undergirding them.

I have the idea that's the whole actual philosophy emission management of car companies, to slow down the emission regulations as much as possible by complying without holding the slightes margin.

This is based on our philosophy which holds that the future of sports cars will not be defined by horsepower alone.

In this colorful ceremony held on September 4th 2015, Dr. Kweyu Raphael Mulaha and Dr. Mutune Jane Mutheu were conferred and awarded with degree of the Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Governance and Management by the Chancellor, University of Nairobi, Dr. Vijoo Rattansi.

Valuation - Informed Indexing # 161 by Rob Bennett You have probably noticed by now that I am no fan of the Buy - and - Hold investing philosophy.

The game is held back by a few odd design choices that seem to run counter to the rest of the game's design philosophy.

In 1845, Victor Robert exhibited Religion, Philosophy, the Sciences and the Arts Enlightening Europe, while in 1846, no less a figure than Baudelaire himself deigned to notice the Universal Charity of Laemlein, a bizarre confection representing a personification of Charity holding in her arms three children: «one is of the white race, the other red, the third black; a fourth child, a little Chinese, typifying the yellow race, walks by her side.»

And from the museum's holdings come two finely grained, «white writing», monochrome drawings and a drawing of a faceted, vertical object that suggests coloured glass by Tobey, who was smitten by Asian aesthetics and philosophies, and is also the focus of renewed appreciation.

She holds a Master in Philosophy of Art at the University Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne completed by curatorial training program in a Ecole du Magasin.

They were held together by the utility created by their scare stories, given scientific authority, not by the cohesive substance that might bring people of a similar political philosophy or culture together: shared values, vision, or goals.

Don't bother telling us again, because by now it's clear that you are incapable of grasping that you hold a certain philosophy of science as axiomatic, and that you're going be incognizant and assert that what you just wrote isn't demarcation, or that demarcation isn't philosophy of science, but in fact it is by definition.

«The government tends to mess things up when they get involved,» he adds, referring the philosophy held by some farmers and food experts that the label USDA Organic could and should be held to a higher standard.

Kraken landed in the international scene on 28th of July, 2011, and was founded by Jesse Powell, who holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from California State University, Sacramento.