Sentences with word «philosophic»

This was fab until you conflated types of philosophic thinking with your brilliant objective analysis.

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

(Hartshorne's discussion of the role of experience in philosophic method [pp. 75 - 82] treats only memory and perception, not at all what life «adds up to.»)

I am not happy, except in the loose terminology of philosophic traditions, to call Whitehead a Christian Platonist.

In «Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen,» Wall explores the subversive, witty and largely undocumented ways that women of the period used recipes and food to do everything from read, write and treat illness to wax philosophic about issues still debated today.

The relevant quotation on philosophic method is as follows.

Does this account provide the escape from the relativism of philosophic positions that is essential for Thomistic natural theology?

There exists a great philosophic question to solve: what comes first, the idea or object.

I broke with the faith of my youth, railed against over-realized eschatology, studied theology and waxed philosophic about all the ways they were doing it wrong.

They were either true or false; as assertions about the nature of reality they were of the same order as philosophic statements.

Another deeper issue connected with the question of the relation between brahman and creativity as process or becoming concerns the classical philosophic problem of the one and the many.

Secondly, we instinctively feel that we live in a world of «throbbing actualities»; and such «direct persuasions» are the ultimate touchstones of philosophic theory.

The philosophers sought to reconcile Islamic dogmas with philosophic ideas, to arrive at a conception of God which would satisfy the requirements of free thought as well as those of religious beliefs.

The problematic nature of truth stands at the center of an array of philosophic issues for our time.

But probably my own stage in life is more bound by philosophic categories, and the advantage of forty more years is a certain relaxation and catholicity.

Some of the disasters could be avoided without altering the basic philosophic view, but such ad hoc improvements in practice are not sufficient.

In the political theory world, we distinguish between «political theory» which is a logical, philosophic approach to ideas and «political thought» which is the ideas of political actors.

Since most modern thinkers began with the premise that God exists, these philosophers have used their great philosophic arguments for the existence of God.

Each religiously creative age is only a stage of religious truth, for, in distinction from philosophic truth, it is no tenet but a way, no thesis but a process.

It presents a theory of experience — the «doctrine of affective continuity» — which tries to unite philosophic ideas and scientific knowledge about sensation.

Although the exposition by the Japanese scholar Junjiro Takakusu is not by philosophic systems such as Abhidharma, Madhyamika, and Vijnanavada (or Yogacara), his The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy is a standard guide to Mahayana thought.

We begin with Whitehead rather than with Aristotle, for Whitehead's assessment of Aristotle flows out of Whitehead's own philosophic concerns.

The exhibition not only traces this historical development of color and light in contemporary art, it also illuminates the continuing evolution of Panza's philosophic interest in these elements, as realized in many of the works of art he has collected since 1956.

No longer is the concern with the rules of sacrifice and ceremonies, but with mysticism and the symbolism of sacrifice, and with the more philosophic aspects of religion.

This involves understanding Whitehead's and Nietzsche's conceptions of time within the context of their basic philosophic visions and, in particular, in relation to their interpretations of the nature of value and the good.

In contrast, Pailin believes Hartshorne may provide us with (or perhaps put us on the road toward) «genuine philosophic wisdom» as well as «mere metaphysical clarity».

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 10) He defined philosophic generalization as»... the utilization of specific notions, applying to a restricted group of facts, for the divination of the generic notions which apply to all facts.»

St. Thomas Aquinas is one of the pillars of Western philosophic inquiry and applied logic in manner so fastidious that many modern people still can't keep up.

The legacy of the modern scientific and philosophic revolution has been the isolation of value from material nature.

It was guided by philosophic arguments, a little of whose drift I have understood.

My view is that it is unfortunate that natural theology has been identified substantively with particular philosophic doctrines.

Previously it had been assumed that in so far as the church followed philosophic reason it would end up with the Greeks.

Whitehead and process thought offer new theoretical foundations and common sense warnings and applications, and they also directs new attention to feeling as an essential part of intellectual experience thus bridging the gap between philosophic principles and the everyday world of teaching and learning.

Bhakti Hinduism is devotional Hinduism which finds salvation, not through works, as in the Vedas, not through knowledge, as in philosophic Hinduism, but in faith, love, loyalty or devotion to a personal divinity.

Whitehead's ideas bridge the gap between philosophic principles and the everyday world of teaching and learning.

The position of Thomas entails creative philosophic work on the part of the theologian.

The love poetry of this period of Indian literature is characterized by a deep longing for communion with God.13 The other side of the reaction against the rise of Shankara's Advaita Vedantic thought was a more philosophic one.

In our own day, the two most important studies of Paul, those of Schweitzer and Rudolf Bultmann, interpret his theology as being either a consistent expression of eschatological mysticism, that is to say as being wholly antithetical to philosophical thinking, or as an understanding of sin and grace that can become fully meaningful only by means of modern existentialism, a philosophy that has set itself against the Western philosophic tradition.

As Whitehead observed, in times of profound cultural crisis the creative formulation of persuasive philosophic visions of great generality is a very practical pursuit (AI 16).

He is overvalued by those who regard him as a unique source of philosophic truth, whose ideas can only be adapted and never superseded by later thought and discovery.

The problems dealt with in Ely's analysis are important for three reasons: first, because of the stature and increasing appeal of Whitehead's general philosophic position; second, because the religious implications of this framework of thought are still in the pioneer stage; and, third, because of Ely's conclusions in regard to the unsatisfactoriness of Whitehead's religious philosophy.