Sentences with phrase «of philosophical systems»

In A History of Philosophical Systems, edited by Vergilius Ferm.

Charles Hartshorne, «Panpsychism,» in A History of Philosophical Systems, ed.

«Hartshorne's «Panpsychism» in A History of Philosophical Systems, V. Ferrn (ed.)

27 of A History of Philosophical Systems, ed.

A History of Philosophical Systems.

Whitehead once observed that there is a hidden imaginative background behind even the most refined and abstract of philosophical systems.

Commentators of Aristotle have often noted an unresolved tension at the center of his philosophical system, inasmuch as the Aristotelian ontology is centered on the primacy of individual substances, while his epistemology is centered on the intelligibility of the universal.

If we take the idea of query seriously, then the merit of a philosophical system rests in its capacity to promote query, not in its completion as defined by its author.

Exactly how Harmony interweaves with Ideas, in contrast to The Physical Elements, to The Psyche, to The Eros, to The Receptacle, is a task of a philosophical system.

Not exact matches

In regards to pluralism (the philosophical system), it is simply a product of the syncretism, synthesis, and despair that has resulted from the rise and dominance of existential philosophy (existentialism having given up on the quest for truth a long time ago).

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

Discovering obscurities in other philosophical systems came to be one of his favorite activities.

In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular biologists when it is presented as an idea with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent fact.

The way out of this seeming contradiction is to mount another distinction within Aristotle's philosophical system, this time the distinction between primary and secondary causality.

The Middle Ages brought about a great flowering of Christian culture: the cathedrals and the philosophical systems (especially in Thomas Aquinas), as well as Christianity's development of social structures.

Although many of us find in Whitehead's philosophical achievement a system nearly unparalleled for its balance, intricacy, and tight coherence, it can not be gainsaid that many of his books leave much to be desired with respect to the order of presentation.

In Science and the Modern World, we noted how White - head first criticized the introduction of God into philosophical systems and then himself introduced him.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

The decision on the part of the Christian theologian as to where he should turn for his natural theology should involve the judgment as to whether the vision of reality underlying the philosophical system is compatible with that essentially involved in the Christian faith...

But they do believe that the basic principles and structure of his system provide the basis for solving both the philosophical and the theological problems of our own time.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

I'm NOT just talking about «bible believers» (yes, Christians and Jews believe in human evil, but so do a wide variety of religions, AND philosophical systems, AND political systems, AND individual thinkers), and you and I both know that we're not just talking about «millions», but BILLIONS — the number of those who believe in human evil FAR outnumber you.

Even the discordance of comprehensive philosophical systems is a factor essential for progress....

There is also continuity in the correspondence between the qualifiers used for God in both [D] and [E]: «unmoved mover» in 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRB-.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

Since the sixteenth century, he complained, philosophical systems have «multiplied beyond measure,» and even Catholic philosophers have accommodated themselves to a curricular mentality that «depends on the authority and choice of any professor.»

Far from conforming human persons to a philosophical system, the Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

The probable answer is that in these lectures he was addressing an audience of modernist liberal rationalists, and wanted to persuade them that even their own philosophical system had to concede at least some room for nonrational opinions on public questions, and therefore for religious opinion.

Depending on how you draw up definitions, the first can blend into the second, and even the second and third can overlap on some belief systems and philosophical overviews (such as from Whitehead — if you're wondering who he is, he co-wrote the modern founding treatise of logic).

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

Solzhenitsyn, on the other hand, has given up seeking the theoretical high ground from which to build a new philosophical system and instead articulates a strategy of resistance against any and all metaperspectives.

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

This summary of the first two books of The Star of Redemption explains why it is not precisely wrong for Pollock to say that Rosenzweig has written a philosophical system in which he has demonstrated a particular type of All or totality.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

Theological and philosophical systems such as Hegel's run the risk of obscuring this crucial problem by making it seem an objective matter capable of a universal solution, rather than a subjective one that each person must confront.

He felt that only those had developed a full philosophical - religious system of their own were entitled to the designation «theologian.»

I disagree, rather, with the distorted interpretations based on patriarchal social patterns and neo-platonic philosophical systems which men have used to obscure the radical message of the Gospel and to oppress women.15

On a philosophical level we can use the relationship of the tree and the boy as a way to remind ourselves of the very different judgments produced by utilitarian and deontological ethical systems.

While Bultmann in some sense agrees with this, Ogden says, his employment of Heidegger's philosophical system makes the second kind of language virtually impossible.

Thus instead of trying to construct a philosophical system which accords with the rule of reason, as Hegel had done, Nietzsche begins by turning reason against itself, uncovering in the process its «irrational» origins in nature («On the Genealogy & Morals,» BWN; Sections 2 and 16; WP, Sections 480 and 481).

To put this another way: Taylor's «suspicion» of doctrine or, more generally, of speculative philosophical systems is not about the inability of language to express the truth of life.

These may include not only broad philosophical issues such as whether the universe has a purpose, but also questions we have become accustomed to think of as empirical, such as bow life first began or bow complex biological systems were put together.

Undoubtedly the most neglected aspect of Whitehead's copious philosophical system is his social philosophy, in general, and his views on civilization, in particular.

Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.

p. 144, quoting Ellul: «The Hebrew Bible (even the wisdom books) is not a philosophical construction or a system of knowledge.

This initially occurs in Descartes and Spinoza, but it becomes far more comprehensive in Schelling and Hegel, and so much so that the whole body of dogmatic theology undergoes a metamorphosis into pure philosophical thinking in Hegel's system.

Consistent with Whitehead's philosophical system, God, as a part of reality, interacts with the rest of reality.

This is not to suggest that Jesus spelled out, in a philosophical system, the thought of a divine energy at work in the world.

«1 This same claim can be made in Whitehead's case: he came to incorporate the existence of God within his system largely by philosophical reflections on the problem.