Sentences with phrase «own system of thought»

Griffin explore the basic ideas of Ben Graham's value investing system, citing it as the intellectual underpinning of Charlie Munger's own system of thinking.

It is also the foundation of reasoning and rationality; it's a great deal easier to find out how things work if you use a consistent system of thought, whether intentionally or not.

Yet for all the book's strengths, it is one thing to demonstrate that a system of thought or group of practices are coherent; it is quite another to demonstrate that they are good.

Churchian teachings are designed to support and spread systems of thought and material resource control that are HYPOCRITICAL BY DESIGN.

Sorry, that should have been «our passion for and our comfort with our individual systems of thought...»

I am guessing that perhaps though we are very different about what we believe and hold to be true, we are very much alike in our passion and our comfort our individual systems of thought and belief.

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

But it is important to distinguish between constructive systems of thought which involve assumptions that allow one to increase one's understanding of the world and his situation in it, versus assumptions which simply lead to more unanswerable questions.

Whenever we think we've arrived and no longer need to change, then evaluation, not only of our system of thought but of our selves, is needed to break down our intellectual, religious and spiritual strongholds, challenge our resistance to change, and inspire us to be transformed.

He was a connoisseur of detecting overconfidence in any system of thought» he could detect overreach (one of his favorite words) even in understatements» but he never suspected that most of those responsible for his revival would be more liberal than he ever was.

• «Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science.»

It may be that when one develops a system of thought and life around some set of such patterns it turns out to be quite different from the system developed elsewhere around other patterns.

But it is interesting to note that the systems of thought which are best adapted to it would seem to be precisely those which at first regarded it as a menace to them.

These inferences will prove erroneous, because in the nature of the case no system of thought is final.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

For Buddhism the encounter with this science was an encounter with a foreign system of thought.

In Religion in the Making, Whitehead says that there are three great systems of thought, Buddhism, Christianity, and science.

A system of thought originating among British Congregationalists in the early eighteenth century, hyper «Calvinism promoted the doctrine of eternal justification.

But Schwartz's subtitle and the predictable reactions to it do not quite exhaust what is present in the author's ambivalent «critique of the system of thought broadly known as monotheism.»

But before many years he moved away from a position which he believed led to humanism, though he never ceased to apply the empirical test to any system of thought.

The frequent presence of a «value vacuum» (Frankl) in the personality and relationship problems brought to counselors emphasizes Erich Fromm's conviction that every human being needs a «system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»

One must ask the question as to whether these newer systems of thought and Islam as it got filtered through them perceived God - man; theology - anthropology poles differently than did their conservative antecedents living within the sterile Semitic environments.

In a system of thought where «knowledge» and «being» can not be differentiated, then this means that Jesus was identified with that aspect of the perfection of God called Beauty (Jamal) or God - for - us.

One of Mottahedeh's characters, a devout Muslim who had studied many years in the sacred city of Qom, thought to resolve the dilemma of Islam's minority status by proposing to himself that there were in fact many different «Muslim» systems of thought in the world.

3, centers directly upon the «structure of faith as trust in God» (6:91) and, in effect, «pierces [Paul's] own system of thought» (6:102) by allowing Abraham's faith actually to define the content of Christian faith; (3) Mt. 25:31 - 46, the description of the last judgment, in which humanistic actions of a general nature actually «interpret what the Christian confession really means (6:73).

On the other hand, evidentialists are right to assert that between Christian and anti «Christian systems of thought there is always a point of contact.

how are they «always» right or wrong in your system of thought?

what is the grounding of that «faith» / system of thought for you personally?

As Niebuhr put it so well, «The effort to bring Christ and culture, God's work and man's, the temporal and the eternal, law and grace, into one system of thought and practice tends, perhaps inevitably, to the absolutizing of what is relative, the reduction of the infinite to a finite form, and the materialization of the dynamic.»

They will expect and they will find a system of thought which still retains its power to aid and to challenge our more usual modes of thinking.

@ hawaiiguest: 1) no, field was probably a poor choice of word, but i was searching for an alternative way to say philosophy / system of thought / etc., without being redundant.

No human system of thought can ever be ultimate.

Buber criticizes Aristotle, Aquinas, and Hegel because in their systems of thought man attains to consciousness of himself only in the third person.

They enjoy the traditional freedom to experiment with all sorts of intellectual attitudes and systems of thought without the restraining influences which bind the fully fledged adult.

I do want to suggest that you take aspects from both these systems of thought and incorporate them into your life.

The pastoral chaos that has emerged at present has not, then, emerged suddenly and inexplicably from nowhere, it is the end result of the gradual breakdown of a whole system of thought.

They are not easy ideas to grasp, and in isolation from his whole system of thought they prove less convincing.

We need to explain how these claims are true and of how they function as a part of an integrated system of thought.

We need understanding based on a consistent system of thought giving us insights and appreciation for how each aspect of our lives effects us.

It is easy to become consumed by details, which lead us into closed systems of thought and blindness to the limitations of those systems.

For this reason he correctly treats both the older fundamentalism (still preserved in some quarters) and the more modern evangelicalism under the same label (offensive as it is) as the same system of thought.

The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.

Dewey has suggested that we think only when our systems of thought and value break down, when we encounter dimensions of life we can not handle.

Patriarchy is a system of thought, a worldview that has become intertwined in much of The Church.

From the ten year course in which Principia was produced, Whitehead retained not only the emphasis on its procedure but also its general aim of producing a universal system of thought.

There are systems of thought which the world usually calls religious, and yet which do not positively assume a God.

MacIntyre certainly holds that it is undeniable that many culturally embodied systems of thought and action exist with their own standards of excellence.

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

noun an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

In the latter system of thought, nature separates levels of reality according to a hierarchical arrangement — God, angels, man, animals, plants and inanimate matter.