Sentences with phrase «just as the philosophy»

For just as the philosophy of idealism had a twofold concern, the purity of philosophic thought and the truth of the Christian proclamation, so these two tendencies are clearly at work in Bultmann's exposition.

Not exact matches

Lipp says one of its defining factors is how the company is just as vigilant in making its employees» experience as consistent with the Disney philosophy as the customers».

A «hard - money» philosophy thus has led Russia to pay vast sums of interest to the world's investment bankers for the privilege of printing currency that it could just as well do for itself.

Taking a longer - term approach to talent resource development is just as important to the investor as it is to the client: It is hard to conceive of people making sound investment judgments over longer time - frames if investors themselves are not being evaluated and mentored with the same long term philosophy.

Religion is not a sickness, but it can be used to further the goals of the sick just as a bomb, a social socio - political philosophy, or the media can.

It could just as well be argued that those in the liberal arts become more adept at literature, music, or philosophy and are, therefore, «better educated».

Funny, to many of us, the church is just as «outside» as any other group, it's one voice in a conversation of many voices that include atheism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhist philosophy, Muslim, Morman, the thousands of gods in India, the native gods around the world.

Just as the definition of philosophy is a philosophical question, so the definition of faith is a theological issue.

But even the people who downplay his significance as an agent of historical change acknowledge the pathbreaking character of his writings, and just about everyone grants that he was the founder of modern Jewish philosophy.

Just as truly as Greek philosophy differentiated within the individual between the material body and the immaterial soul, Hebrew religion differentiated between the moral man and his physical organism.

There was a a great deal of cultural exchange, and it is EXTREMELY likely that the eastern philosophies, started weakening the old religions in the region, and the NT was written in responce to this, so it is very likely that what Jesus allegedly taugh WAS from the Buddha and other sources, just as the rest of the bible took from many other cultures.

Just as then he sought to integrate the rediscovered philosophy of Aristotle into a new synthesis with the Catholic faith so too today he would be striving to integrate the findings of modern science with the perennial truths of the Catholic faith.

Thus process thought can articulate a philosophy or theology of promise (not just «hope») as what John B. Cobb has named the «call forward» (GW 45).

Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract, human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.

In this respect Whitehead's philosophy is just as fully eidectic as Husserl's, but in Whitehead, as in the existential phenomenologists, there is no eidectic reduction in the true Husserlian sense.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

My own moment of clarity in AA came when, while earnestly trying to «work the program» and embrace its philosophies, it occurred to me that if I could somehow convince myself of something as preposterous as the idea that I needed to change my entire way of thinking and adapt to the 12 - step program in order to stop drinking, I could probably convince myself of something a little better suited to my own needs (and much simpler) that would work just as well.

I can argue from history and philosophy against religion and it is none of my business if others just simply believe as long as there are no victims.

Virtually all historians these days acknowledge the primacy of interpretation, and the role of philosophical assumptions in historiography, but many are (perhaps wisely) unwilling to give themselves over to philosophy as if history just is a sort of philosophy.

Atheists are just as arrogant as religious folks in regard to the presumed veracity of their respective philosophies.

Just as infinitude and finitude -LRB--RRB-[The limitless / the finite — important terms in Plato's philosophy, especially in his Philebus, 30.]

Just as Prometheus, having stolen fire from heaven, begins to build houses and to establish himself on earth, so philosophy, having embraced the whole world, should rebel against the world of phenomena.6

And the «borrowed from Zen philosophy» argument about God's will interpreting what is just and good, not mortal man, does not apply when the rules are enforced by child molesters who are as open minded as the Hitler's Youth clubs they spawned from.

In «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only by restating them in nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of God.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

This reference just made to philosophical presuppositions identifies our thought with one type of Christian theology and cuts across the dominant tendency in the neo-orthodox movement, where philosophy is wholly rejected by theology as in Barth, or is given a merely peripheral role as in Brunner, and, to a lesser extent, in Richard Niebuhr and Reinhold Niebuhr.

All of the major German philosophers the time responded to the French Revolution as just such a beginning, and the French Revolution is the deepest historical ground of German Idealism, thereby giving it an historical actuality found nowhere else in the world of philosophy.

Process philosophy can complement this biblical recital by providing a description of the necessary conditions whereby such contingent divine activity is possible, just as the biblical recital can complement this abstract philosophical outline by giving it specific, concrete historical contours.

Philosophy properly and adequately analyzes God's necessary aspects, but can not tell us what his contingent aspects are, other than the bare assertion that there are such contingent aspects, features of God's activity which happen to be so but just as well could have been otherwise.

«1 With the broad perspective of one gifted with metaphysical genius, he affirms that an adequate philosophy of religion can only be developed within the framework of a comprehensive general philosophy; but the elaboration of his system makes clear that the doctrine of God is not just one facet but, as with Aristotle, the very zenith of his cosmology.

The simplest moral philosophy of doing unto others as you have them do unto you is readily understandable by all normal people, just as a pleasure shared is not halved but doubled but, to the amoralist, the psychopath it has no meaning as they have no empathy and feel neither the happiness nor the sadness of others, they are genetically abnormal suffering from an actual and real physical defect.

I'm just saying that perhaps LeVey was taking liberties with Rand's philosophy and shouldn't be used as a trustworthy source.

In Adamson's account, Augustine's legacy looms largest in this era because he had the courage to announce a redefinition of philosophy that required «self - knowledge as involving not just duality but trinity,» and a resistance to any remnant of paganism — that is, anything that does not lead us «away from sin and self - interest to a truly «philosophical» way of life.»

The truth of mythology would still hold good despite all the changes in culture and philosophy, just as the human personality remains the same despite all the changes and chances of human life.

As the book's equivocal subtitle, «A German Affair,» suggests, Romanticism does not just name an achievement but also an entanglement, a cultural development at once creative and obsessive, and a volatile turn in philosophy and the arts that, even as it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacAs the book's equivocal subtitle, «A German Affair,» suggests, Romanticism does not just name an achievement but also an entanglement, a cultural development at once creative and obsessive, and a volatile turn in philosophy and the arts that, even as it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacas it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacy.

It is an outgrowth of the continuing philosophy that church work is done not just by the minister and the official board, but by a committed congregation following a plan of «tithing of time» which can be as meaningful and productive as the tithing of money..

The Playboy Philosophy has always been forthe ladies, too — just as long as they remember what they're good for, don't get too sentimental and feel grateful when the playboy in their own life offers to pay for the abortion.

This reproach is clearly superficial, even if it is not completely unfounded: as emphasized previously, seeing a return to genetic early forms in a philosophy of organism would be absurd, just as seeing a return to animism in the proposals of Piaget would be absurd.

Neither Catholic speaker critiqued atheist philosophies and the dehumanising consequences they engender, the loss of freedom, hope and social cohesion, and the violence that often characterises not just Marxist atheism but humanist secularism, as in the French Revolution, for example.

For example, just as there can be «community» of ideas in a well - integrated philosophy, so communication may be taken (as in the analysis of confessory prayer) to mean the establishment of an appreciation of one's relatedness to the world as endlessly perfectible.

What is philosophy's task in response to the claim which proceeds from a concept of revelation as differentiated as the one I have just outlined?

As I argue in Myths of Reason, rationalistic thought is obliged always to «begin in the rough» with the assumption that certain «large» general ideas are just what is needed; 1 ideas whose extreme vagueness reveals that the range of rational concepts is very broad indeed, so broad in fact that the vexed question of just where and how to begin doing natural philosophy becomes a primary and major worry.

And of course this holds not just for pragmatism but for process philosophy as well.

I had arrived at Harvard on a fellowship in philosophy in 1960, just before John F. Kennedy's election, and I have to admit I was about as green and innocent as a lad of twenty - six can be, having spent the prior twelve years in the seminaries of the Holy Cross Fathers.

Just as Buber's understanding of law goes hand in hand with his philosophy of language, so Buber's emphasis on transformation through dialogue marks his views of culture and politics, both in Germany before the Holocaust and in Israel after it.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Systematic philosophy is not just a set of assertions or claims, but is exhibitive as well as assertive.

On the contrary, just as Newton's worldview provided the means for interweaving the two traditional realms of natural philosophy, terrestrial and celestial, Hartshorne's worldview, as interpreted here, provides the means for interweaving the two traditional realms of metaphysics, contingent and necessary.

WORLD: Nothing if you include the study / formulations of philosophy and psychological benefits of religious ritual, along with other social sciences, as part of science... instead of classifying them as belonging to just a bunch of crazy loonies with no cause for their actions.

However, the body of philosophy that deals with being and the relationships between entities, metaphysics, is just as necessary now as in past ages (perhaps more so given the prevalence of the idea that an individual world - view is just as «real» as any «imposed» objective reality).