What is
necessary is a philosophical analysis of nature in which the very existence of equational fields of force in the material universe is linked to a metaphysical view of what an object is and how it is related to other objects.
All that is
necessary is philosophical reflection.
Not exact matches
They
are communitarians, that
is, «if
philosophical liberals
are those who believe that all our problems can
be solved by autonomous individuals, a market economy, and a procedural state, whereas communitarians believe that more substantive ethical identities and a more active participation in a democratic polity
are necessary for the functioning of any decent society.»
However much this move might cost in terms of
philosophical clarity, it could
be defended either as an accommodation to the power of the established church (in England) or to the
necessary of popular enlightenment (in America).
«It» has an impact, but its impact
is deterministic, it had no «choice» in the matter, it
was just executing along determistically (Determinism
is the
philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action,
is the inevitable and
necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
Determinism
is the
philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action,
is the inevitable and
necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
The question
is presented as part of a larger discussion on the nature of
philosophical and imperial authority, yet it
is clear that the imperial part of the argument
is not
necessary to its main thrust, as a result standing out all the more.
There
are psychological as well as
philosophical definitions of «soul» that do not have to include religion as
being necessary for it (they generally do not exclude it either).
But it
was equally impossible to go the full length with Greek
philosophical theories and accept their
necessary consequences.
Before proceeding to the discussion, it
is necessary to clarify what
is meant by «metaphysics», given the opinion in many
philosophical circles that such an endeavour
is neither possible nor even desirable.
But it
is my thesis that they need to
be balanced by attempts to do justice to the meaning of the phenomena under investigation and that it
is, therefore,
necessary to interpret them in terms of their
philosophical and religious relevance.
Marxist - Christian dialogue should not
be confined to
philosophical or doctrinal issues, although dialogue on these issues will always
be necessary.
What
is therefore
necessary, according to Cobb,
is a Christian natural theology: a coherent statement about the nature of reality that recognizes its interpretation of the facts to
be decisively conditioned by the Christian tradition, yet remains content to rest its case upon purely
philosophical criteria of truth.124 Cobb offers such a statement in his important book, A Christian Natural Theology.
It seemed
necessary to bring out clearly the
philosophical differences between Kantians and Whiteheadians which under lie our disagreements as to what political theology should
be.
That theism has existed in some form since the earliest human civilizations, it appears evident that a concept of God has
been a
necessary part our
philosophical understanding of the world and our relationships to it.
The reason you
're still sticking to it
is simple — either you busied yourself too much away from a true
philosophical understanding of your own beliefs or you lack the mental or empathetical faculties
necessary.
Here, the primal events of our history
are reenacted philosophically, and now we can understand them as
being absolutely
necessary to and in the evolution of absolute Spirit, which
is modern idealism's
philosophical renaming of the most primal of all New Testament categories, the Kingdom of God.
But it
is the business of philosophy to ascertain that which
is purely
necessary and universal, and any limitation placed upon
philosophical reason ultimately appears to
be arbitrary.
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.
If God's nature and activity
are wholly
necessary, then Hegel
is right in supposing the biblical God to
be an historically conditioned, concrete guise of that which finds its purest expression in the
philosophical Absolute.
True, the distance which
philosophical theology establishes between God and ourselves
is still
necessary to prevent us from confusing God with our own idols, and thus it
is perhaps more than philosophy, it
is a hidden grace.
For instance, it
is not logically
necessary to this type that one of the required kinds of critical inquiry
be a
philosophical quest for the «essence» of Christianity (or of anything else); the type
is fully compatible, for example, with a
philosophical judgment that the project of hunting for «essences»
is itself misguided.
The inherently
necessary borders of science could best
be protected in the future if all scientists
were to agree to draw a clear, careful, and inviolable line between scientific and
philosophical / religious truth - that
is, if they would conscientiously seek to avoid making purportedly scientific statements concerning questions whose answers lie beyond the scope of scientific inquiry.
The contrast, which out of concern for the truth I have found it
necessary to draw between the courageous and joyful primitive Christian hope of the resurrection of the dead and the serene philosophic expectation of the survival of the immortal soul, has displeased not only many sincere Christians in all Communions and of all theological outlooks, but also those whose convictions, while not outwardly alienated from Christianity,
are more strongly moulded by
philosophical considerations.
«The foundation of all linguistic study remains the
philosophical view, and at every point, however concrete, one has to
be ever conscious of its relation to the general and
necessary features.»
Whitehead's
philosophical reasons for affirming God and his attempt to show that God
is not an exception to all the categories appear to me philosophically responsible and even
necessary.
«Some particular how
is necessary»: this
is what can
be said on the basis of an analysis of the
philosophical situation itself.
It
is also
necessary, however, to go much deeper and to explore what the implicate order means with regard to our common - sense notions based on general experience, as well as with regard to our basic
philosophical ideas.
It
is not
necessary to raise the question as to whether van Buren
is guilty of taking this
philosophical tradition too seriously, of receiving the impressive blows it
is able to deliver with too radical a retreat.
Whenever theology has become too
philosophical in its interpretation, the criticism continues, a reformation has
been necessary as well as forthcoming.
While the issue of consciousness
is of great
philosophical interest, the high humanism at stake in such discussions
is often more of a problem for theology than the denial that consciousness
is necessary to sustain human uniqueness.
Far from claiming to
be Kantian, Bergson at least claims to
be diametrically opposed to the
necessary relegation of human knowledge (either scientific or
philosophical) to the sphere of the merely phenomenal.
No reason at all, for I
am not suggesting that there
is actually a final
philosophical system — e.g. idealism, and Hegelianism in particular — or that it
is necessary for our exegesis to take over the actual answers that philosophy gives to the existential question of the meaning of my own particular existence.
The second preconceived idea held by certain historians of religions, notably that it
is necessary to consult another «specialist» for the total and systematic interpretation of religious facts,
is probably explained by the
philosophical timidity of many scholars.
Hence, in contrast to an empiricism that focuses on the particular, the unique, and the contingent, Hartshorne proposes a mode of
philosophical analysis whose concern
is that which
is universal and
necessary, and knowable apart from any particular experience.
Alicja Kwade's work represents some of the most interesting developments in sculpture today — with meticulous attention to detail and a sincere appreciation for craftsmanship and quality of materials, her work emphasises the skill that
is necessary to give artistic form to
philosophical inquiry.
The Martha Wilson Sourcebook offers the complexity and subjectivity that
is necessary to tell the story of not only Wilson's own practice but also about the historical and
philosophical context of it.
A technical criticism: «
Necessary» and» contingent»
are terms with a specific meaning in
philosophical discourse.
This latter condition may raise a few questions, most obviously whether it
is necessary to include
philosophical and political beliefs.
To understand the present approach to corporate regulation in the UK, it
is necessary to appreciate the
philosophical dilemma presented by the fact that a company
is a creature of law, and to hold it liable under criminal law invariably involves blaming an individual or individuals whose conduct
is (artificially) imputed to the company.