by Henry F. Schaefer III To find
objective truth by science still requires operating by the foundational principles of transcendent truth and conduct.
The quote mentions»... outright lies peddled as
objective truth by shady actors both inside the US and abroad.»
Not simple partisan spin, but outright lies peddled as
objective truth by shady actors both inside the US and abroad.
Not exact matches
«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the
truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who,
by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an
objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.
So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the subjective
truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only
by virtue of the absurdity of its
objective meaning or ground.
The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an
objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned
by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.
... In fact, there is often mistrust in the capacity of human intelligence to arrive at
objective and universal
truth - a
truth by which people can give direction to their lives.
But equally far from the subjectivism of the romantic or the «I believe because it is absurd» of the mystic, that sacrifice is called for precisely in the name of
objective truth comprehended through the «clear, logical cognition» exemplified
by the modern scientist.
As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some
objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended
by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «
truth.»
He brings out the subjective reception of
objective, ontological,
truth and love in all our knowing (see n. 34), directly denied
by materialistic philosophy of science.
But Buber believes that Paul means
by faith belief in a
truth, a kind of
objective knowledge, whereas surely for Paul faith in Christ is never separated from love to all the members of the body of Christ and to every man.
After a sketch of the standoff between views of theology as something «
objective» and views of it as something «subjective,» Wood concurs with Farley's reasons for rejecting the picture of theology as universally valid «
objective»
truths and factual knowledge.2 He also rejects another type of «
objective» view of theology, represented
by Hough and Cobb, which defines theology
by reference to the purposes of professional church leadership (93).
In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought
by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned
by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely
objective,
truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).
Tell us all the
objective Reality of what good has been provided
by religion for thousands of years that make people hold on to it in spite of already knowing these wonderous
truths you keep reminding us about over and over about like a broken record.
But belief in
objective truth and belief in
objective right are part of what we mean
by belief in God.
The creative movement in the world, in its every detail and its varying degrees of importance, with whatever it has contributed to furthering God's love and his activity in love, is continuously experienced
by God, known to him, cherished
by him, and used in the furthering of his
objective — which is the wider and wider sharing of love, with its related righteousness and
truth and in its enduring beauty, in the ongoing of the creative process.
Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more
objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the
truth of the Bible
by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.
However, the
truth apprehended
by faith is not that of a static
objective order to which the mind of man responds.
In the humanities, postmodern philosophers and literary theorists tend to deny that decisions about meaning are guided
by a trans - historical reason or
by any
objective truth and assert that our interpretations of the world partially re-constitute the world they interpret.
If alienation from the
objective («faith,» «God,» «
truth») were the sum total of mischief done, the issue could easily enough be resolved
by opting for unbelief.
To ask what status in
truth a portrayal of Jesus
by an artist who never saw him can conceivably have is inevitably to open the door to the wider question: Does anything we claim to know about him, theologically or historically (save perhaps that he once lived), have any great
objective validity?
Rather I mean what Kierkegaard meant
by truth for the existing individual: «an
objective uncertainty held fast in an appropriation - process of the most passionate inwardness.
What we have to ask is whether the New Testament narratives are affected
by mythology less in their
objective aspect than in our subjective way of apprehending and describing religious
truth.
We need a new grounding of the very concepts of «
truth» and «nature» as
objective realities in the dynamic and inter-relative cosmos uncovered
by modern science.
While German philosophers tended toward various forms of nihilism after Kant, «it was Husserl's great merit,» wrote Hilda Graef, Stein's biographer, «to have dispelled these mists of relativistic agnosticism
by reaffirming the two old
truths: the existence of
objective truth and the existence of a knowable world in which we live.»
According to the first objection, any idea of revelation violates the idea of
objective truth as measured
by the criteria of empirical verification and falsification.
Then, I think, this Gospel goes on to lead the reader beyond the point where one is concerned with the physical body of Christ; and in the story of Thomas it shows that faith is not to be established
by sight; that you have got to look beyond any
objective truth of the kind which might be established
by visible, tangible, corporeal manifestations: to look beyond that to something different.
This
objective immortality through which each event is «saved»
by being deposited in the experience of subsequent events is the basis for the
truth of the statement that «Darwin lived.
Yet, approaching the
truth affirmed
by Christianity as some abstract,
objective assertion to be tested, simply demonstrates that the questioner is approaching this query as a problem to be pondered, dissected, and solved, rather than a mystery to inhabit and be transformed
by.»
The turning away from the
objective truth of words (and from authority) which has been so much part of the modern «turn to the subject» is caused
by, among other things, a particular idea with a long intellectual pedigree.
The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used»
by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other
objectives).
Ideas of
truth, or beauty or right were not supposed to correspond to any outer or
objective reality... the totalitarian regimes did not simply declare, as a dry finding of social science that peoples» ideas were shaped
by environment.
Or the fact that the whole postmodernist «there's no
objective scientific
truth» was invented
by liberals in an era when hard sciences and enginering were a right wing corporate evil.
About Blog Knowledge attained can be valuable when taken from
objective information influenced
by our personal judgment, however the deepest
truths of our reality come not from this knowledge or the conditioning of society, teachers or preachers but from our own higher consciousness.
GAAP accounting
by Toyota Industries and GAAP accounting for debt on the balance sheets serve as two examples of how GAAP provides the Third Avenue analyst with
objective benchmarks and how the Third Avenue analyst uses those
objective benchmarks to get at his or her version of
truth and accuracy.
So few can handle the
truth or base their judgement on
objective scientific evidence and intelligent analysis provided
by experts in the communications fields.
What brings this clusterpuckery to the level of fraud - the purposeful and deliberate criminal misrepresentation of facts in pursuit of a pecuniary gain at the expense of other people, which could not have been achieved without telling lies - is the fact that the breach of method was manifestly not inadvertent, but had been undertaken
by the investigators during the course of data - gathering, with the overt
objective of misrepresenting the
truth shared
by those investigators among the raters in a manifestly contrived scheme of duplicity.
With such contempt for law,
by what standards do you appeal to
by which to establish science as an
objective discipline seeking
truth, or restore the integrity of climate science?
Opposed to above ends we have those who also are driven
by the notion that only an
objective search for
truth, wherever the facts may lead, can ever provide any real value.
Where does anyone nowadays look to find pure
objective truth — i.e.,
truth according to the time - honored and duty - worn universally agreed upon rules of logic that have been argued
by humanity's greatest minds during hard times over the ages?
A, This is me to a tee:» I'd rather we make mistakes because the population is insufficiently motivated
by the honest
truth, than be led
by those who will ignore, distort and deny the
truth in order to support
objectives that may or may not prove to be noble.»
This is a false promise made
by the advocates of such schemes, either because they are naïve or because they have no problem bending the
truth to achieve their political
objectives.
About Blog Knowledge attained can be valuable when taken from
objective information influenced
by our personal judgment, however the deepest
truths of our reality come not from this knowledge or the conditioning of society, teachers or preachers but from our own higher consciousness.
In postmodernism, there is no
objective truth — the
truth is what each one of us makes it, influenced
by social norms and ideas.
If one of them has been hit
by a car and has significant brain damage as a result, the therapist needs to take this as an
objective truth with very real, knowable consequences for neuro - psychological functioning.
This
objective is accomplished
by applying Biblical principles and spiritual
truths to our lives.