Sentences with phrase «objective foundation»

Like a number of 19th - century forebears, he wants to sever ethics from its religious base and reconstruct it on the new, more objective foundation of scientific knowledge.

In this way he undermines any connection between the rational basis of belief and action, suggesting that our universal concept of morality is entirely an illusion, practised by us as an accident of biological history, but without any real objective foundation.

How could there be any objective foundation, any universal standard for good and evil?

If the God of classical theism existed, an objective foundation for morality would exist.

In rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizens.

They have not found an objective foundation for the notion of an «educated person,» but a contingently formulated conception from the past that they want to reinstate into our contemporary discussions about education.

The Deweyan response to the lack of an objective foundation for our values, beliefs, and desires is to have faith in the creative use of human intelligence as a means of coping with the problems of life, and to seek to develop the democratic community as the best way of enriching and enlarging human experience.

We have no objective foundation nor fixed goal, and we must accept «our inheritance from, and our conversation with, our fellow - humans as our only source of guidance» (CP 166).

If moral standards do not rest on some sort of objective foundation, they become subjective, relative, and ultimately meaningless.

We would like to show now the objective foundation for theological talk, so as to achieve relevance.

In the face of the present crisis it seems there are two possible paths to take in our approach to values: either to abandon discourse on values in favor of more traditional ethical language, or to assert the objective foundation of values and hence a system by which they can be compared, evaluated, and judged.

If it has any objective foundation, intercessory prayer means that when we pray, God does something that would not otherwise be done.

The editors assume our acceptance of human superiority has an objective foundation so obvious that it need not be mentioned.»