Sentences with phrase «on social philosophy»

Much of the government policy change follows from the position on social philosophy adopted by the Chinese Protestant Three - Self Patriotic Movement when it was founded in the early 1950s.

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If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

Karp, Palantir's CEO, was on his way to earning his PhD in social philosophy but after 9/11 he began thinking about a way to make the world a safer place.

Leadership WA spent some time with Terry to understand more about his philosophy on leadership and his insights on the role of the corporate sector in contributing to community and social impact.

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

In this book, he moves away from social philosophy and toward metaphysics, where he sets out to rebuff atheistic criticisms that focus on the doctrine of God.

It is pretty clear that eye for an eye, while an improvement on the unbridled brutality that preceded it, is a short sighted philosophy of social justice.

Or Russell Hittinger's path - breaking «Two Thomisms, Two Modernities»: «The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

Many of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices of academic theological monographs and of books on subjects not traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.

The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

In this completely social philosophy (conflict, which is not denied, being also a social relation) God is that in the cosmos whereby it is a cosmos; he is the individual case on the cosmic scale of all the ultimate categories (including those of social feeling, «subjective aim,» etc.) thanks to which these categories describe a community of things, and not merely things each enclosed in unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything else.

Drawing on the existential theology and social philosophy of Martin Buber, I wrote in my thesis that God is our «power in relation» and that justice, the actualization of love among us, is the making of right, or mutual, relation.

Its founder Sampson Raphael Hirsch's sectarian decision to break with the organized Jewish community was in line with his general philosophy — that Judaism was eternal, not based on history, social development, or people's mores and norms.

This dual focus on reason and ethics similarly explains the close attention religious liberals have paid to the sciences — physics as a source for better cosmologies, and the biological and social sciences as a source for both ethics and philosophies of history.

The public philosophy is the claim that the objective law of right, written into the nature of things, makes on citizens, as contrasted with the claims that the citizens make on the natural and social reality on which they depend.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

On occasion we have forgotten that fact and, at our peril, relied upon insights from philosophy, the social sciences or general education.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

On the other hand, they serve the political, military and economic powers that be and operate as consultants to them as well as accepting invitations to generalize from scientific research to political and social philosophies — blinkered mandarins, speaking as if they were wise.

That is on the lower end of the social scale and discouraging enough, but now I find that on the higher end of the scale, my alma mater promotes the same base philosophy.

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

Writing on Dooyeweerd's social and political philosophy, Jonathan Chaplin points out that «the modern state actually made possible the arrival of civil society.

For example, there are those who have tried existential and personalistic categories; those who have applied linguistic analysis to biblical statements; those who have advocated the dehellenization of traditional formulations; those who have experimented with political and social categories of the secular city; those who believe in the relevance of pragmatic philosophy or Whiteheadian process philosophy, and so on.

I was fortunate to stumble on his early work on the philosophy of social science when I was writing my dissertation (subsequently published as Character and the Christian Life).

Paul Holmer, in his article on «Kierkegaard and Ethical Theory,» (Ethics, an International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Vol.

With this concept of natural subjectivity oriented to the living, Piaget pursued the philosophy of organism of Whitehead on the level of natural and social sciences.

If the Political Responsibility statement is in fact merely a recapitulation of Catholic social thought, then where is the emphasis on subsidiarity, that «fundamental principle of social philosophy» (Quadraesimo Anno), which expresses the Church's (not the Republicans») own sense of the inadequacy of state interventions?

It is also true with the process view that an entity's nature is determined primarily by its relation to other entities; indeed, the whole of Hartshorne's philosophy turns on the concept of reality as a social process.

What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith which is in the main influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of history as involving genuine participation and social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the depths of human emotional, conational, and rational experience.

Had James not cast Royce so thoroughly into his shadow — had American philosophy followed the path of a thinker with his eye on the Absolute rather than that of the shrewder social pragmatism of Dewey — the intellectual history of twentieth - century America might have been different.

For this reason, Leo XIII styled his great encyclical on the importance of the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas as a social encyclical.

Mainline theology and social philosophy, on the other hand, allow for a concept of corporate or social morality as well as individual or personal morality.

For example, in «The Mystery of Israel» (in the version published in The Social and Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain), Maritain wrote, as if with a smile of recognition on his own part:

Moreover, the analytical aspects of the history of religions must depend on psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, philology, and hermeneutics in its study of various features of religions, such as scriptures, doctrines, cults, and social groupings.

An over-emphasis on the metaphysical aspects of God as understood especially in terms of Greek philosophy has sometimes concealed and domesticated the liberating themes in the Bible and their transformative implications for our social, political and economic life here and now.

Proponents of increased public spending refer repeatedly to our «starved public sector,» and they look to the potential peace dividend as an opportunity to return to liberal social programs fallen on lean days because of budget restrictions and the conservative social philosophy of the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Suppose that it is true that the philosophy of the liberal society is inferior to, say, Catholic social thought on these two points.

The liberal sociopolitical theory of the Enlightenment, on the contrary, was «utilitarian in its ethical outlook, and atomistic in its social philosophy.

Not to mention that the «social sciences», which our author presumably praises, are built on top of some pretty hefty nomothetic - deductive philosophy of science to begin with.

This can not be acceptable in a social democratic party whose philosophy is underlined by a resolve to carry everyone along on the development journey.

«This announcement is purposefully placed on this social media platform, in a manner that is consistent with our philosophy of organic growth and development,» he stated.

For Cuomo, the victory tonight amid the shambles of the Democratic Party will likely be turned into validation of his governing philosophy: Left on social issues, a moderate - to - conservative approach on budgeting.

«In April 2017, the party's school working committee, based on its previous report proposed the formation of the Ghana Institute of Social democracy as an institution of higher learning and research to train many party comrades and other interested stakeholders in the fundamental principles and philosophy of the party.»

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

We discuss the truth behind making a profit on wellness, Dr. Chopra's spiritual belief systems, his exact morning routine, how to raise a conscious and mindful kid, his surprising social media practices, how he's managed to avoid all stress for the last 35 years, and the philosophies he thinks will help us defeat the current global insanity crisis going on in the world today.

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He currently facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, meditation, Ayurveda, and the social psychology of practice.

He facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, meditation, Ayurveda, and the social psychology of practice.

I'm a student in Chicago majoring in both Theatre and Philosophy with a concentration on Social Justice.