Sentences with phrase «into philosophical arguments»

Indeed, trying to turn a religious belief into a philosophical argument is a problem that has vexed the faithful since Thomas Aquinas.

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Craig validly schematizes the basic philosophical argument to be discussed as follows (translation into strict categorical and syllogistic form produces a valid EAE, figure 1 syllogism, K 103):

But if philosophical inquiry thus discovers contingent aspects in God's full actuality, it also discovers the intrinsic limits of its own inquiry into the mystery of God, for no amount of ingenious argument can deduce the concrete, historical character of that which happens to be, but which could have been otherwise.

«Unsecularizing the academy» and getting the scholarly elite to accept the philosophical viability of religious reason as an equal player in intellectual argument is not the first step towards God's reentrance into the consciousness of modern society.

They were also efforts to translate into law certain philosophical arguments and political commitments regarding the nature and meaning of citizenship, democracy, freedom, and education.

The threat of natural selection is largely philosophical: It calls Biblical literalism into doubt and undermines the argument that humans are somehow distinct from the rest of the animal kingdom.

And yes, you can make the «well, government enabled it» standard argument and say the the solution is to sprinkle magic Libertarian pixie dust and make everyone into Randian supermen, but in the real world where we have billions of people who need to coexist in a functioning society with legacy social structures we need solutions that work, not philosophical wankery.