Sentences with phrase «mechanistic universe»

For one thing, the basic paradox of the presence of mind within a mechanistic universe remains unchanged.

Neither the new science nor the new religion can be contained in the old formula of a legal — mechanistic universe; that is, the image of a universe running according to rules laid down by an external law - maker.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

The concept of a mechanistic universe became the dominant worldview soon after the rebirth of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Or, as Merchant (1980) puts it: «As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105).

The concept fitted well the mechanistic universe.

In a mechanistic universe, evolution is the rearrangement of already existing parts.

But it seems to me that Dr. Altizer has fallen into a naturalization of historical time, that he has been led astray by his nineteenth - century mentors, who were battling against the rigidity of a mechanistic universe, for there is no doubt that in the mechanistic and objective sense the past is dead and unchangeable.

In fact, Russell thinks that the death of Whitehead's younger son, Eric, in air combat in 1918, significantly shifted his views: «The pain of this loss had a great deal to do with turning his thoughts, to philosophy and with causing him to seek ways of escaping from belief in a merely mechanistic universe.»

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even when suffering under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

Not exact matches

2 He suggested that scientists are moving away from a mechanistic model of the universe which has dominated their thinking for more than two hundred years.

Instead of a mechanistic view of the universe, the process - relational understanding is holistic and ecological, seeing the world as dynamic, creative, throbbing, pulsating with energy, interrelated and interdependent.

If indeterminacy is an objective feature of reality, contrary to the mechanistic, deterministic view, there is real potentiality and novelty in the universe.

Newton's system of the universe, as it has been handed down to us, is atomistic and mechanistic.

What is really surprising in retrospect is the way in which the Christian church lined itself almost exclusively with the mechanistic view of the universe.

He rejects mechanistic determinism and argues for a more ecological concept of nature and the continual involvement of God's creative activity in the universe.

The church opted for the mechanistic model of the universe, though in many respects the organic view would have been much more supportive of Christian faith.

That flies in the face, not only of the mechanistic «Newtonian» universe but also of deterministic fundamentalism, be its origin in Islam or the Christian churches.

Despite their identification in later times with the mechanistic model of the universe, both Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton were indebted to the organic movement.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

In the past few decades, however, this view has come under attack, as scientists and philosophers increasingly adopt a mechanistic view of the universe, in which physical laws govern our every move and choice.