Sentences with phrase «into philosophical problems»

This is not a promise he's going to be able to keep,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a leading education think tank, adding that Mr. Trump also would run into philosophical problems in telling states what to do with education policy.

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It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed to offer answers to the problems of ordinary life, that Christ came into the world and revealed God's salvific plan to all of mankind.

I will go into this in some detail to show that the notions of implicate order grow naturally out of real physical and philosophical problems or questions in physics.

I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

To attempt to justify this by transforming the epistemological problem of «uncertainty» into an ontological fact is simply a way of mobilizing the present limits of scientific knowledge in order to assert an arbitrary philosophical thesis.

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

His therapy begins by identifying the problem, coaxing the vague, often unarticulated suspicion of religious belief into the form of a direct philosophical or theological claim, setting the stage for a vigorous discussion.

No, Voice, that's just the fuse that blew in your own mind because you're beginning to understand the problems inherent in atheism and the reasons that many highly intelligent people have found their way back to religion after unfulfilling philosophical forays into the morass that is atheism.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

[4] Atheism in general doesn't give us the philosophical tools to sort out when a greater loss is worth the price of ending the suffering of others — and in fact it can create dilemmas like the problem of what to do with children who are being indoctrinated by their parents into ideas we do not agree with.

We can ask why Whitehead did not reformulate his basic philosophical problem in the context of an anthropology which takes into account the processes balancing the concrete individual with its own publicity, which it can only simulate --(in connection with which Whitehead's theory of propositions would offer a still completely unexhausted source for such a development).

As Whitehead's formulation of his program becomes plausible, his basic philosophical problem will become clear: Only a relativistic cosmology, in Whitehead's view, «brings the aesthetic, moral, and religious interests into relation with those concepts of the world which have their origin in natural science» (PR xii / vi).

The neural code could yield insights into such ancient philosophical conundrums as the mind - body problem and the riddle of free will.

If Stella's call for a new sense of space tends too quickly towards a literal - minded interpretation, the problem with Peter Halley's Neo-Geo abstraction was that it moved painting into a philosophical, theoretical, and technological / conceptual space which was literal or literalizing in its very own way (e.g., as geometric abstractions came to serve as the pictorial ««models» of intellectual concepts»).

If we try to (socially) engineer a solution to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions we are doomed to the sort of non-ending and pointless philosophical and ideological debates that your blogs on this subject generally degrade into.