Sentences with phrase «of philosophy of nature»

This paper will attempt an assessment of Leclerc's radical position, using as a foil the thought of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation of the older Aristotelian theory of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point in the history of the philosophy of nature, and as the golden age of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).

They include expositions of his philosophy of nature and his philosophy of science as well as more topical and critical treatments.

This alternative way, one which I have followed in my The Nature of Physical Existence (Allen & Unwin, in the Muirhead Library of Philosophy, 1972), is to seek to recover the problematic of the philosophy of nature though a study of the philosophy of nature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vigorous.

It should be emphasized, what is sometimes liable to be overlooked, that Whitehead's recovery of the problematic of the philosophy of nature would not have been possible without his having gone back extensively to earlier philosophy, especially Greek and that of the seventeenth century.

I would argue, therefore, that the philosophy of organism is sufficient, even if nor necessary, to fulfill Merleau - Ponty's desiderata of a philosophy of nature.

His work is, as he states, exclusively in the field of the philosophy of nature.

12 It may well be a legitimate and well - founded thesis of the philosophy of nature (and in what follows we will confidently take it for granted) that infra - human living things are not reducible to purely material factors.

Not exact matches

«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.

Emphasizing the Pythagorean proportions of musical temperament and the calendrical regularities of the sun, moon and planets, classical philosophy used these key ratios of nature as an analogue for shaping order in society's basic proportions.

We have long argued that our value investing philosophy stands the test of time because it only requires that: first, human nature does not change; and second, we maintain our discipline.

This more general science is traditionally known as the philosophy of nature.

Experimental evidence needs to be integrated into a broader philosophy of nature if one wishes to find (or to deny) the existence of a deity, but the deity so discovered would not yet be seen as the Creator.

Hume was a prodigy and published his system of philosophy while in his mid-twenties in the form of A Treatise of Human Nature.

Questions about the cause or nature of the universe then become entirely different subjects like philosophy and science.

And just so you know, I haven't yet tackled your important «Locke's Law of Nature» essay in that great Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy essay volume that came out last year.

A fundamental feature of Whitehead's philosophy of nature is his analysis of continuous change.

The first embodies a philosophy of space - time with a realistic position assumed and nature accepted as consisting largely of space and of time (CN 33).

The Philosophy of Nature.

She specializes in philosophy of religion and is the editor of Concepts of the Ultimate: Philosophical Perspectives on the Nature of the Divine.

The emphasis on actual entities and prehensions obscures the significance of time in Whitehead's later philosophy, although it was through the development of the study of time in nature that his final position was reached.

Essays in the Philosophy of Nature [Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1937].

They need a religion that helps them respect differences (like the Hindu philosophy that we all find a path to the truth, independent of what god we worship), or the Buddhist philosophy of improving ourselves and working with our community (independent of gods and dogma), or the native religions that respect nature and it's boundaries.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

Many devout Christians still doubt the scientific evidence for evolution, yet material evolution is part of the unfolding of what might be termed God's script written within Nature, something of key importance to the philosophy and theology of the Faith movement.

This does not mean that Whitehead abandoned the temporal continuity expressed in the infinite divisibility of events in the writings on the philosophy of nature, but rather that this infinite divisibility was relegated to the domain of the potential in terms of the extensive continuum.

In terms of Whitehead's total philosophy the move toward a temporal nature of God seems easy enough, but it was such a novel departure from traditional Western classical theism that it is no wonder that Whitehead was so long blind to these possibilities.

Here she draws support from ecofeminist philosophy, which has exposed the longstanding links between the exploitation of nature and that of women.

In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

The early Christians were Jewish in their conception of the interior nature of man and they never became anything else until they fell under the influence of Greek philosophy.

The major contribution of interpersonal psychology to a comprehensive philosophy of human nature is that what a person becomes is decisively influenced by his relationships with other persons — chiefly those in his family in the first few years of life.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

It was also the most helpful for one concerned with nature, science, philosophy, liberal religion, and good writing — all of which my wife had learned to appreciate before I met her.

According to Noddings, history (including philosophy, theology, politics, societal structures) up to this point has obscured the nature of the problem of evil because all systems for dealing with it have been created, elaborated, and promoted by and for males.

Similarities of development, part of, or parallel to the processes discovered in biology, are now recognised in all branches of empirical science, and have justifiably resulted in the universal acceptance by the intelligentsia of all countries of evolutionary philosophies of matter and of the nature of living beings.

A little knowledge of philosophy is also of help, particularly as Descartes» theories are presented as throwing doubt on the nature of human identity.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

It is because no philosophy can be regarded as philosophically absolute that the Christian can and should choose among philosophies [so long as they are philosophically of equal merit) the one that shares his own vision of the fundamental nature of things.

If the nature of horseness is a static constant, as it seems to befor St Thomas and Aristotle, the question arises: can this philosophy really give an adequate account of the continuum of development in life forms that lies at the heart of the theory of evolution?

According to the «Real Philosophy,» we should find out the truth of things by careful measurement and bold experiments, not reading our own preoccupations and bad habits into the world of nature.

Philosophy has to take notice of what is established by natural scientists but, equally, philosophy enables usto judge some of the things said by scientists, for example, about the nature Philosophy has to take notice of what is established by natural scientists but, equally, philosophy enables usto judge some of the things said by scientists, for example, about the nature philosophy enables usto judge some of the things said by scientists, for example, about the nature of matter.

This reduction of the nature of modern scientific methodology is hard to maintain in the light of most contemporary philosophy of science, as Stephen Barr for instance has shown in this magazine.

``... the future of Christian philosophy will therefore depend on the existence or absence of theologians equipped with scientific training, no doubt limited but genuine and, within its own limits, sufficient for them to follow with understanding such lofty dialogues not only in mathematics and physics but also in biology and wherever the knowledge of nature reaches the level of demonstration.»

His most substantial work was Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874), though smaller works such as The Destiny of Man (1884), The Idea of God (1885), and Through Nature to God (1899), were more influential.

With the philosophy of Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), the nature of reality was no longer seen as writ large over the universe only to be discovered by the exercise of reason but rather was what the human mind perceived, interpreted, made it to be («Cogito, ergo sum.

In the next chapter we shall examine the specific ideas of process philosophy with respect to the nature of love.

Cf. also Dorothy Emmet, The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (Macmillan, 1945), and Function, Purpose and Powers (Macmillan, 1958); Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key (Harvard University Press, 1958).

Second, if our knowledge of God is based exclusively on the history of Jesus Christ and not on pre-Christian philosophies, then the human attributes of Christ in time also tell us what God is in his very nature and being as God.

Even though Whitehead seems to have developed his Categories in response to issues in the philosophy of nature, still nothing in reality can be an exception to the Categories, especially the Category of Categories, so how does the Category of the Ultimate intersect with Whitehead's theism?