Sentences with phrase «not philosophical foundations»

The real issue for the health of liberal institutions, it seems to me, is not philosophical foundations, but social and cultural foundations.

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Nonetheless, within the diverse meanderings of this self «proclaimed skeptic there appears an intuition that moral claims without a foundation in God can not make that difficult philosophical movement from «is» to «ought.»

One may or may not accept Thomas's metaphysical analysis, but at least one can see that the doctrine of creation, in its philosophical foundations, is not challenged by any discovery in the natural sciences.

I don't think Owen succeeds in showing that politics needs philosophical foundation, though his hook is an excellent resource for engaging that difficult and important question.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

Charlton places Christian philosophical foundations largely outside the realm of science: «that science has not proved that God or an after life exists is not bad news but good.»

But even more damaging to Barth's position is the fact that the foundation for natural law is not just philosophical but» for believers at any rate» scriptural.

The required texts serve not only as the foundation of philosophical discussions but as the core of all teaching methodologies.

It could be a long time before agreement is reached — there aren't many areas of mathematics where the foundations and philosophical interpretation of the subject matter are still being argued over after a quarter of a millennium!

Philosophical not withstanding, we always can relate to the house built on sand vs the one built on a firm foundation.