Sentences with phrase «in philosophical discussion»

As they unpack the film and analyze its effectiveness at delivering the message, they also engage in a philosophical discussion of the characters» actions and motivations.

After all, «in philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly» (PR xiv).

One is somewhat at a loss as to how to respond to such an appeal to intuition in a philosophical discussion.

For my part, I think it is generally unhelpful, in a philosophical discussion, to appeal to popular psychology as the basis for one's philosophical claims.

He argues that both the knowing subject and the cosmos as known object mustbe articulated at far deeper levels than is normally the case even in philosophical discussion.

Or, to put the matter more accurately, to engage in philosophical discussion they did not assume a traditional philosophical starting point.

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.»

Lawyers and judges do not (and should not) engage in philosophical discussions about what they (in their individual consciences) consider to be morally right.

Hicks writes: «Lawyers and judges do not (and should not) engage in philosophical discussions about what they (in their individual consciences) consider to be morally right.»

Often, the teacher and his students become involved in philosophical discussions about the topic.

Not exact matches

In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»)

While the general topic of lex talionis is always a fun philosophical discussion, I don't think it applies to what is going on in Israel right now.

It's especially easy in this exact discussion; you have to be very careful about advocating tolerance, or philosophical openness, because its all too easy for that argument to becomea self - defeating intolerance of intolerance.

There is a long - standing discussion in philosophical ethics regarding the relationship between happiness and virtue.

Discussion of the existence of God is a philosophical question, so one has to be careful in one's arguments.

In the first draft of Catholicism, now published thanks to Fr Nesbitt as Matter and Mind, we find a fuller discussion than Catholicism offers of Fr Holloway's view of this philosophical movement and its challenge to Christian belief.

In the discussion of the consequent nature, on the other hand, it is clear that philosophical and religious concerns are interrelated in Whitehead's presentatioIn the discussion of the consequent nature, on the other hand, it is clear that philosophical and religious concerns are interrelated in Whitehead's presentatioin Whitehead's presentation.

Whitehead has chosen to couch his whole philosophical discussion in the book in Platonic terms and to adopt «Eros» as the term for the primordial nature of God.

Tolkien's unfinished, sprawling corpus of work is so vast, so rich in detail, so full of wide - ranging moral and philosophical issues, drawing on so many different sources, that the possibilities for discussion are endless.

Bonhoeffer's writings are notoriously difficult to translate into English, and doubly so when he engages in dense philosophical discussion as in Act and Being.

The author outlines the two principle reasons why Whitehead is neglected in secular philosophical discussions.

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

But in most philosophical discussion, he observes, realism usually means a commitment to the correspondence theory of truth, the law of the excluded middle and a nonepistemic view of truth.

Fourth, as used in most evangelical discussion, the term is a philosophical judgment controlled by categories alien to Scripture; it is a slogan based on «how God ought to have inspired the Word» which has been substituted for careful patient analysis of what the Bible does teach about itself.

«advertising campaign in the article was the subject of this conversation» it was until you changed gears and stated «It's a philosophical discussion, not an attempt to pass legislation»

Before proceeding to the discussion, it is necessary to clarify what is meant by «metaphysics», given the opinion in many philosophical circles that such an endeavour is neither possible nor even desirable.

For critical discussions of Ogden's argument and the entire book, see Langdon B. Gilkey, «A Theology in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 62in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 62In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 624.

Also, keep your eyes open for Kevin Timpe's forthcoming book Free Will in Philosophical Theology, which has a very insightful discussion of the logic of choosing evil, including damnation.

Since 1950, philosophical discussions of Whitehead's view of God have been influenced primarily by Charles Hartshorne and William Christian.50 Hartshorne has continued to develop and apply the doctrines of panpsychism and panentheism explained in Part One.

The ability of biology to detail the organisation and constitution of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour of an organism, should be taken into account in the theological and philosophical discussion of free will, individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially in regard to morality.

William Christian is the other major influence in current philosophical discussions of Whitehead.

From the time of Man's Vision of God (1941), he complained that discussions in philosophical theology lacked logical rigor.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

In a much more philosophical vein but pertinent to our discussion of chance, indeterminacy, and purpose are the works of Charles Hartshorne.

Mr. Thorson makes the serious charge that I draw my conclusions in «something akin to the way in which popular discussions of the theory of relativity used to suggest that it justified relativism in philosophical and moral thinking.»

Helpful in the discussion of the philosophical issues involved is Cobb, John B., Jr., and Griffin, David Ray, eds., Mind in Nature (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1977).

Such an assumption, however, is no longer acceptable in many contemporary philosophical discussions of science and reason.

After an intensive discussion of Erazim Kohak's profound philosophical and religious meditation on «The Moral Sense of Nature» in The Embers and the Stars, a biophysicist and a primatologist both said, «I like that.

4 For more extended discussion of this point, cf. my article «Substance - Society - Natural System: A Creative Rethinking of Whitehead's Cosmology» in International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (1985), 3 - 13.

For a more comprehensive discussion of the role of ultimate or existential anxiety in alcoholism, see Howard J. Clinebell, Jr., «Philosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and Treatment of Alcoholism,» QJSA, September, 1963.

I believe that process thought has much to contribute to contemporary philosophical discussions of technology and that Hall's book is a significant step in this direction.

In the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AIIn the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AIin Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AI).

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

In philosophical theology par excellence these three items are welded together indissolubly — abstract concepts, concrete matters of fact, practical affairs — so that Weiss's comments are of special relevance for us in our discussion at this conferencIn philosophical theology par excellence these three items are welded together indissolubly — abstract concepts, concrete matters of fact, practical affairs — so that Weiss's comments are of special relevance for us in our discussion at this conferencin our discussion at this conference.

It arises out of philosophical necessity and is only slightly affected, as in the discussion of peace, by special religious insight or need.

While the issue of consciousness is of great philosophical interest, the high humanism at stake in such discussions is often more of a problem for theology than the denial that consciousness is necessary to sustain human uniqueness.

Marx's critique of the way in which Hegel handled the question of alienation restates Marx's general critique of philosophical idealism, and the Marxian version of materialism emerges from this discussion of alienation.

3 For a detailed discussion of Buchler's treatment of identity, see Marjorie C. Miller, «The Concept of Identity in Justus Buchler and Mahayana Buddhism», International Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1976), 87 - 107.

Although Griffin's discussion focuses on my own work, many of his points are applicable, more or less directly, to the broad physicalist framework within which much of current philosophical work in philosophy of mind is being carried on.