Sentences with phrase «on systematic philosophy»

Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy.

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But the system is not the purpose for his doing so» and it is on the question of purpose that Pollock's Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy goes so wrong.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Meanwhile, in addition to his duties at the university which involved him in lecturing on systematic theology and leading a seminar on «The Idea of Philosophy and Protestant Theology,» he became further involved in the ministry.

In this case, Whitehead's philosophy may have the virtue of picturing the theistic issue exactly as it seems to be — with the question of God's existence an open one to be decided on grounds other than those of systematic necessity.99

The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.

On the contrary, he proposes that a major, if not the principal, task in natural philosophy is to show how to reconcile systematic thinking with mythopoesis.

Also, in a letter to Mark Barr concerning the possibility of being offered a post at Harvard, Whitehead says the post would be very attractive because it would provide him the opportunity of developing in systematic form his «ideas on Logic, the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, and some more general questions, half philosophical and half practical, such as Education» (ANW - 2 134).

Thus, it is not necessary to think of systematic philosophy as synonymous with or as necessarily based on an ontology.

1 Whitehead produced no extended or systematic treatment of ethical theory, and his remarks on ethical topics are scattered throughout his later writings, especially RM, AI, and MT. Commentary on Whitehead's moral philosophy has been largely limited to attempts at description, clarification, and systematization: see, e.g., Paul A. Schilpp, «Whitehead's Moral Philosophy» in The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitphilosophy has been largely limited to attempts at description, clarification, and systematization: see, e.g., Paul A. Schilpp, «Whitehead's Moral Philosophy» in The Philosophy of Alfred North WhitPhilosophy» in The Philosophy of Alfred North WhitPhilosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed.

The question is really how courses in Church history, missions and practical theology on the one hand, in systematic theology, Christian ethics and philosophy of religion on the other, are being taught.