Sentences with phrase «many philosophical issues»

«It wasn't a philosophical issue,» he says.

Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when examining important philosophical issues of the modern world...

As MacIntyre puts it in the Phi Sigma Tau Lectures (published in 1990 as First Principles, Final Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues):

The series also confronts some serious philosophical issues in the last book, That Hideous Strength.

Recognition of the authenticity of one another's faith does not mean indifference with respect to the philosophical issues on which we disagree or the diverse actions resulting from those disagreements.

While most Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, Cobb and a few others felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that would not avoid philosophical issues.

While the great majority of Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, a few of us felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that could not avoid philosophical issues.

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.

Catholic schools take a risk in covering moral and philosophical issues at GCSE, since they are constrained by the secular agenda.

The philosophical issue, then is between conceptions of relation.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

Professors James and Alice Boyack of Philander Smith made philosophical issues concrete, and I wrote several papers on the problem of evil and suffering.

To both of them, philosophical concerns, particularly Existential philosophical issues posed important challenges.

The reason this amuses me, to be honest, is that, whenever he himself turns to philosophical issues, Richard Dawkins is Wendy Wright — or, at least, her temperamental twin.

My hope is that the patient reader will be rewarded by Hartshorne's insightful treatment of philosophical issues surrounding abortion, a treatment which rests four square on his attempt to defend a moderate view of temporal relations.

You have run out of philosophical issues to discuss and resorted to pick on physical appearances and clothing and sunk such lows as toilet talk.

Russell's «simplemindedness» is evident, not only in his demand for clarity and logical rigor, but in his unwillingness to mire himself in important philosophical issues for which clarity and rigor might not represent attainable goals.

These may include not only broad philosophical issues such as whether the universe has a purpose, but also questions we have become accustomed to think of as empirical, such as bow life first began or bow complex biological systems were put together.

Current Philosophical issues.

In Current Philosophical Issues: Essays in Honor of Curt John Ducasse, ed.

in Current Philosophical Issues: Essays In Honor of Curt John Ducasse, ed.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

Schools should also pay more attention to the philosophical issues raised by the controversy over creation and evolution — although attentiveness should not mean sneaking in sectarian teaching of religion under the subterfuge of «scientific creationism.»

For those of us who are embroiled in the day to day issues of euthanasia, care of the elderly and care of the unborn it is good to take a step back and to look at some of the key philosophical issues that arise in day to day medical ethics.

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).

At the bedside, doctors are uncomfortable about philosophical issues because they get in the way of action.

Nonetheless, the mindset that led the original ICEL «translators» to interpret «Mysterium Fidei» ■ in terms of a theological narrative to be recited, rather than as an acclamation addressed to a living person, does touch on some deeper theological and philosophical issues which have wider relevance and more far reaching implications.

This way alone lies a true understanding of those philosophical issues which lie behind the natures of material entities.

Ivor Leclerc, «Some Main Philosophical Issues Involved in Contemporary Scientific Thought,» in Mind in Nature, ed.

The philosophical issue is that, since the particular features of the molecules (as gaseous, liquid, solid, as acid or alkaline, etc., etc.) are directly correlative to structural relationships, the composite wholes could not be the mere arithmetical sum of the constituents; «structural relationship» implies something more than «arithmetical sum.»

The philosophical issue here — and it is a quite fundamental one — is whether the basic acting of an existent is, or can be, a psychical or mental act.

The philosophical issue which is quite fundamental to scientific thought is that of the ultimate nature of the physical.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

A further philosophical issue, also of deep concern to many, appertains to the rationality of religious commitment within the context of modern democratic political culture.

But I do not think the philosophical issues concerning the epistemological role Kant assigned to space and time as forms, respectively, of outer and inner sense, are simply resolved by introducing the notion of space - time in physics.

These are general principles which do not concern religion more than it does other philosophical issues.

The fact is that, actual and / or possible internal inconsistencies notwithstanding, Whitehead's Enquiry employs or considers a variety of possibilities concerning the nature of experience and the meaning and status of externality, all of which are worth careful scrutiny for the value they may have as relating to the clarification of Whitehead's thought as well as to the articulation or resolution of relevant philosophical issues.

In 1994, I sent Hartshorne a draft of my Introduction to Philosophy text, Change and the Unsurpassable, which evaluates philosophical issues from a process position but also contains material on prepatriarchal worldviews and uses gender - neutral expressions.

Like Wittgenstein, Whitehead is not, of course, opposed to the concept of a «philosophical illness;» the difference lies in the seriousness with which the two thinkers approach traditional philosophical issues: Wittgenstein seems to see no legitimacy in questions that science or common sense can not answer, while Whitehead struggles with classical metaphysical problems, stepping beyond the strict boundaries of the scientific method.

24 See Charles Hartshorne, «A New Look at the Problem of Evil,» Current Philosophical Issues: Essays in Honor of Curt John Ducasse (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publications, 1966), p. 204.

Higgins said he doesn't have a philosophical issue with the single - payer model, but while some are estimating Sanders plan could cost more than $ 30 trillion over a decade — with no plan from the senator at the moment on how to cover that cost — his comes at no extra charge to the government.

And there are deeper philosophical issues which sit underneath these questions.

In the end, I don't think that this question has a good «politics» answer and is more of a philosophical issue.

But there is no indication that this will be the case, and the indication that the changes will further encourage pupils to personally grapple with important ethical and philosophical issues can only be welcomed.»

And there's a larger philosophical issue at stake: Moskowitz is a constant critic of the Department of Education and its schools, and has sought to define her network in total opposition to the hulking bureaucracy of the DOE.

Examples include neuropsychology, neurological testing, neurological rehabilitation, genetic counseling, ethical and philosophical issues, psychopharmacology, and probably others I'm not thinking of.

They are assessing the administrative, financial, and philosophical issues, on the part of both training institutions and funding agencies, which underlie the inequities of benefits access.?

She is confident that parents» concerns will outweigh philosophical issues.

In Danny's hospital room, weighty philosophical issues yield to more practical concerns, like getting a tray on rollers properly positioned over his lap.

Online dating is more popular than ever... «I talk a great deal about philosophical issues,» he wrote in an archived profile.