Sentences with phrase «metaphysical foundations»

For Pieper, Sartre and Aquinas the primary metaphysical foundation of created things is not intelligent and free mind but an existentiality which transcends intelligible essentiality.

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Walker: Process categories provide black liberation theology with a viable metaphysical foundation.

The seventeenth - century metaphysical foundation of science was good for 300 years — proof of its great merit.

They inferred general principles from experience, and did not presuppose an ultimate metaphysical foundation for them.

Baskin delves further into his model with a series of prints of tulips embellished with gold leaf; questioning how value is defined, particularly in regard to the tulip, a rather ordinary item that came to command extreme prices, they reflect the irrational and almost metaphysical foundations of economic desire.

After finishing studies in oil painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1958, Takamatsu worked in a range of mediums, including sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, and performance, and probed the material and metaphysical foundations of artistic practice.

Oppressed Black Americans and other members of marginalized social groups can not afford to enter into the discussion with a take - it - for - granted attitude that the Whiteheadian metaphysical foundations are applicable to their experience.

At one time the Catholic natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his followers dominated European thinking, but its metaphysical foundations were undermined as science replaced Aristotelian teleology and Catholic theology with a materialist worldview that considers only efficient causes.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

[5] Cf E. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, 2nd ed.

Nobody has done more to put the metaphysical foundations of theology in that simple and tidy package than David Bentley Hart.

He attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology by arguing in favor of the reality of change and development, of temporality and contingency, within the divine essence.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

This generous sampling of the argument helps contemporary readers assess the religious and metaphysical foundations and contentions of their thought.

The reason that Science and the Modern World is such a wonderful and penetrating book is that Whitehead looks at the deepest level of our modern world view — at the metaphysical foundations of modern science.

However, a review of the metaphysical foundations of the relationship between form and fact reminds us of the need for the formal.

Why must the quest for this link begin with a careful examination of Whitehead's metaphysical foundations?

Of the many issues yet to be adequately investigated in this area is the principal question concerning the metaphysical foundation, and thereby justification, for civilized society according to Whitehead's organic cosmology.

The interconnectedness of measured spins here is not explicable by «local hidden variables» theories, yet it implies that the metaphysical foundations of QM require further refinement.

This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.

For example, E.A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954).

The metaphysical foundations and significance of the new California history syllabus are much deeper and far more consequential than are its moral implications, whatever the Left or the Right might like to think.

Henry James Young, in «Process Theology and Black Liberation: Testing the Whiteheadian Metaphysical Foundations,» suggests that experience is the testing ground of metaphysical truths.

But Griffin's metaphysical foundation — the foundation of his panexperientialism — does remind one of a metaphysical wish list.

8 Cf. E. A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954).

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