Sentences with phrase «in social philosophy»

It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other's views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct.

The liberal sociopolitical theory of the Enlightenment, on the contrary, was «utilitarian in its ethical outlook, and atomistic in its social philosophy.

AESP — Alfred North Whitehead, American Essays in Social Philosophy.

It appears to attribute desirable changes in social philosophy in the past too exclusively to the influence of science.

Stapledon's philosophical presumptions are clearly expressed in his two volume work, Philosophy and Living (1939).1 In social philosophy he rejects both the supreme individuality in democratic systems and the herd mentality in socialistic thought.

Stapledon lends most credence to the Marxists in social philosophy, if they recognize the spirituality which Stapledon sees as an essential aspect of their thought.

Karp, Palantir's CEO, was on his way to earning his PhD in social philosophy but after 9/11 he began thinking about a way to make the world a safer place.

In social philosophies dualism sustains in society a sense of cultural insulationism and isolationism.

Not exact matches

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

I am not sure what more I would add... That we need to develop utterly new moral, ethical and social philosophies that recognize human consciousness as embedded in a process of evolutionary ecology which is in turn embedded in a thermodynamic process.

Leadership WA spent some time with Terry to understand more about his philosophy on leadership and his insights on the role of the corporate sector in contributing to community and social impact.

The essays collected in the latest of the pop culture and philosophy series offer insights about how Nietzsche's exploration of the positive power of active forgetting can illuminate the Draper, Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson characters; a comparison between the social structure of Sterling Cooper and an Aristotelian definition of friendship; and a glimpse into the Existential Void of Roger Sterling.

Through her work at Emerson Collective, Laurene has been a longtime leader in areas of education, immigration, social justice and the environment, and has demonstrated that she shares Ted Leonsis's belief in a double bottom line philosophy: that the companies that do best are those that do good in their communities.

In a blog post, Taylor explained that Salesforce and Quip share the same philosophy about software — that it should be cloud - based, social and mobile - focused.

He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1976, and his Master's degree in Philosophy from University of Oxford, the United Kingdom in 1981.

As a Top Contributor in the Social Media Marketing Group one of the largest and most active groups, I have a certain philosophy about using LinkedIn groups for content marketing, which I outlined here http://bluedogscientific.com/2014/09/21/a-philosophy-for-linkedin/

She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

In Principles of Political Economy, with Some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (1848), Book V, ch.

If the point of your article is to criticize the AIDS lobby for ignoring the ethical dimensions of this social malady, or to criticize the moral philosophy that compels AIDS activists to hand out condoms in public high schools instead of emphasizing the importance of chastity and self - discipline, then you should be commended.

In this book, he moves away from social philosophy and toward metaphysics, where he sets out to rebuff atheistic criticisms that focus on the doctrine of God.

The Enlightenment belief that logical thinking and education alone, without any consideration of other factors apart from ignorance such as the survival instinct and clinical cognitive dysfunction in the formation of behavior patterns, can solve all of our individual and social ills is the fundamental heresy of the Enlightenment philosophy.

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

• Ẓahir - ud - Din Muḥammad Babur, The Baburnama: This oddly absorbing, thoroughly exotic, and occasionally brutal (in merry Mongol horde fashion) memoir of Babur (1483 — 1530)-- lineal descendent of Timur Lang, sometime ruler of Samarkand and other stretches of Central Asia, and founder of the Mughal Empire in India — is also a work of intense introspection, political and social philosophy, historical reflection, natural history, and startlingly lovely detail.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

This is expressed in literature, the arts, in existential and positivist philosophy and it is actualized in social and political life of all kinds.

In 1954 he ended his formal training with all of these intellectual forces converging into a social philosophy.

In Whitehead's cosmology — which is, in the main, simply the most fully elaborated expression of tendencies widespread in recent philosophy — all existence is «social,» is «feeling of feeling,» forming «societies» of interlocked experiences, and societies of societies, from electronic, almost inconceivably simple and rudimentary, societies, to the universIn Whitehead's cosmology — which is, in the main, simply the most fully elaborated expression of tendencies widespread in recent philosophy — all existence is «social,» is «feeling of feeling,» forming «societies» of interlocked experiences, and societies of societies, from electronic, almost inconceivably simple and rudimentary, societies, to the universin the main, simply the most fully elaborated expression of tendencies widespread in recent philosophy — all existence is «social,» is «feeling of feeling,» forming «societies» of interlocked experiences, and societies of societies, from electronic, almost inconceivably simple and rudimentary, societies, to the universin recent philosophy — all existence is «social,» is «feeling of feeling,» forming «societies» of interlocked experiences, and societies of societies, from electronic, almost inconceivably simple and rudimentary, societies, to the universe.

In this completely social philosophy (conflict, which is not denied, being also a social relation) God is that in the cosmos whereby it is a cosmos; he is the individual case on the cosmic scale of all the ultimate categories (including those of social feeling, «subjective aim,» etc.) thanks to which these categories describe a community of things, and not merely things each enclosed in unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything elsIn this completely social philosophy (conflict, which is not denied, being also a social relation) God is that in the cosmos whereby it is a cosmos; he is the individual case on the cosmic scale of all the ultimate categories (including those of social feeling, «subjective aim,» etc.) thanks to which these categories describe a community of things, and not merely things each enclosed in unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything elsin the cosmos whereby it is a cosmos; he is the individual case on the cosmic scale of all the ultimate categories (including those of social feeling, «subjective aim,» etc.) thanks to which these categories describe a community of things, and not merely things each enclosed in unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything elsin unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything else.

[The] social structures and attitudes in our society draw legitimacy from the central assumptions of Western religion and philosophy.

In the border areas between philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences there are some significant openings.

Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.

The content of the gospel as eternal salvation is either reduced to a social message to ameliorate the conditions of life in this world, or it is equated with the loftiest wisdom of philosophy and heroic examples of moral achievement.

Drawing on the existential theology and social philosophy of Martin Buber, I wrote in my thesis that God is our «power in relation» and that justice, the actualization of love among us, is the making of right, or mutual, relation.

Its founder Sampson Raphael Hirsch's sectarian decision to break with the organized Jewish community was in line with his general philosophy — that Judaism was eternal, not based on history, social development, or people's mores and norms.

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speaIn doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speain contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

In this paper our first task will be to try to indicate both the adequacy and applicability of Whitehead's philosophy to Marx's social analysis.

The student is helped to acquire the aptitudes needed in order to do history or philosophy or a social science as aptitudes needed to inquire critically into the validity of Christian witness.

Perhaps the pressure of the guiding interest of theological inquiry will so shape theological engagement in history, philosophy, social sciences, etc., as to make the theological disciplines actual — that is, institutionalized in their own right.

In rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizenIn rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizenin all our citizens.

Thus, he has metaphorically established his social philosophy in Star Maker.

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.»

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

moreover, being demonstrable & repeatable does not make something objective — not just in philosophy, but even in the social sciences.

Earlier contributions were made by students in widely different fields: theology, philosophy, philology, jurisprudence and the social sciences, and later archeology and anthropology.

Durkheim's concept of sociology is characterized by a marked emancipation from the tenets of Comte's philosophy of history as sociology (sociology as a method) and by a corresponding tendency toward construction of a typology of social groupings, in which he included religious communities.

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

Although Reinhold Niebuhr considers Buber the greatest living Jewish Philosopher, he is, in contrast to Hammarskjold, highly critical of Buber's social philosophy.

The way toward this integration has been indicated by Buber himself in his treatment of philosophical anthropology, psychology, education, ethics, social philosophy, myth, and history.

Pfuetze's comment is not so much a criticism of Buber's social philosophy as a reminder of the difficulties which would attend the attempt to apply it in any large - scale industrial society, difficulties Buber himself would be the first to recognize.