Sentences with phrase «philosophical analyses of»

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For some distance and detachment, we turn to the deeper cultural and philosophical analyses of our friendly European critics Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton.

How else does it happen that the problem of the One and the Many, or any philosophical analysis of the meaning of God, is plagued, or at least challenged by a concern with its implications for a personal deity?

What is necessary is a philosophical analysis of nature in which the very existence of equational fields of force in the material universe is linked to a metaphysical view of what an object is and how it is related to other objects.

This insures that philosophical analysis of the nature of God is both possible and proper.

Ricoeur there proposes a philosophical analysis of symbolic and metaphoric language intended to help us reach a «second naivete» before such texts.17 The latter phrase, which Ricoeur has made famous, suggests that the «first naivete,» an unquestioned dwelling in a world of symbol, which presumably came naturally to men and women in one - possibility cultures to which the symbols in question were indigenous, is no longer possible for us.

Like Mill, Hartshorne must contend that a full philosophical analysis of our intuitions regarding justice will demonstrate that whatever legitimacy they have derives ultimately from their role in maximizing utility.

If faith in the Word of God can only be the work of the Holy Ghost operating through intelligent decision, it follows that the understanding of the text is attainable only in systematic interpretation, and the terminology which directs this understanding can be acquired only from profane reflection, which is the business of the philosophical analysis of existence.

As a serious sociological and philosophical analysis of modernity commissioned by the Bishop's Conference of England and Wales it is a significant project.

The authors offer a detailed philosophical analysis of current students roles that pivotally recognizes their central role in school change.

After setting the stage with some philosophical analysis of the themes and techniques of Expressionist art, Foster engages his main subject — how «the work of several young artists reflects critically upon the language of Expressionism.»

Aitken belongs to a generation of artists who have reassessed and decisively influenced the way we look at art: His works bear witness to a more profound observation of reality and reflect a philosophical analysis of the present world.

It's hard to think of another painter these days who has such infectious fun with the philosophical analysis of modern painting.

Not exact matches

For examples of a rich humanity combined with keen philosophical analysis, I would recommend «Kant versus Sullivan,» a refutation of Kant's epistemology based on Annie Sullivan's treatment of Helen Keller; a review of B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity, «The Stimulus and the Response»; «The Inexplicable Personal Alchemy»; and her obituary for Marilyn Monroe.

One may or may not accept Thomas's metaphysical analysis, but at least one can see that the doctrine of creation, in its philosophical foundations, is not challenged by any discovery in the natural sciences.

«The Autonomy of Historical Understanding,» in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed.

For a detailed examination of some other aspects of Hartshorne's concept of experience, see my «The Epistemic Availability of Hartshorne's «Experience»: A Critical Analysis,» International Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1981) 29 - 49.

3 The concept of synoptic judgment was developed by Louis O. Mink, «The Autonomy of Historical Understanding,» in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed.

But even so, it would also be true that none of these positions could be known or shown by us to be true, even as interpretations of experience, by any direct appeal to experience unmediated by very complex philosophical analysis and dialectic.

Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a point by point analysis of the texts not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal point of view» (p. xix).

The study concludes with an analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.

Above all, Heidegger's existentialist analysis of the ontological structure of being would seem to be no more than a secularized, philosophical version of the New Testament view of human life.

If writing a technical philosophical or theological essay, I should wish here to urge how much work needs to be done by way of analysis on the notion of dependence.

In general, taking the objects for philosophical analysis from the data of sense perception leaves us in the grip of substance thinking even when we acknowledge that we can not discover substances in or through our sensory experience.

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

This is our central concern, and we shall give the next chapter to the philosophical aspect of this analysis.

In varying degrees, most of them want practical theology to become more critical and philosophical, more public (in the sense of being more oriented toward the church's ministry to the world rather than simply preoccupied with the needs of its own internal life), and more related to an analysis of the various situations and contexts of theology.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

In particular, judgments about the faithfulness (historical theology) or the truth (philosophical theology) of Christian witness must presuppose and take into account (and not simply lead into) analysis of the context of that witness and its fittingness to that context (cf. 50).

Other tasks, too, besides interpreting Scripture face theologians, tasks both intramural (dealing with the church) and extramural (dialoguing with the world)- tasks of phenomenological analysis of theologies past and present and of apologetics, philosophical, evangelistic, and defensive - but these can not be spoken of here either.

Thus Santayana's earlier work consists in philosophical comment on human life rather than constructive metaphysics or ontology, while Whitehead's is devoted to the foundations of mathematics and the analysis of scientific concepts.

The way to such heightened sensitivity is not by means of philosophical analysis and argumentation at all.

The most serious Zen philosophical analysis has taken place in the school of Nishida.

proposes that «the whole trouble» with the theory of types «really arises from defective philosophical analysis» (N116: 128) and gently chides Whitehead and Russell for not taking more seriously the suggestion of Wittgenstein.

Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.

He is concerned with the theologico - philosophical, epistemological, psychological, phenomenological and historical analysis of the nature and meaning of religion and with the forms of expression of religious experience and the dynamics of religious life.

Fourth, as used in most evangelical discussion, the term is a philosophical judgment controlled by categories alien to Scripture; it is a slogan based on «how God ought to have inspired the Word» which has been substituted for careful patient analysis of what the Bible does teach about itself.

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

His analysis of the writings of Michel Foucault, who died in 1984, shows how a secular philosophical principle has expanded in the years following to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of faith.

Lull proposes this judgment from a philosophical analysis in which an unconscious sense of identity with the events of the emergence of Christianity is enough for Christian theology to be Christian.

Kaplan's analysis of Jewish nationalism begins with the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and medieval Jewish theology, while simultaneously freely utilizing modern sociological and philosophical insights.

His analysis calls for reintegration of the history of science with social, economic and political history just as his philosophical proposals call for integration with current reasons for making science, technology and medicine more accessible and accountable.

In the fourth part we will return, armed with this dual analysis, to the initial paradox which has set this inquiry in motion, and we will define the philosophical hermeneutics of testimony which has given its title to this essay.

He pursues that investigation by analysis of philosophical alternatives, because, as he says in After Virtue, key episodes in the history of philosophy were what fragmented and largely transformed morality.

So the first conclusion is that [i] even if [/ i] one follows Aquinas in his analysis of analogy, or more specifically, analogical language, as a philosophical tool for interpreting «God - language,» it does not follow that it says anything about [i] being, [/ i] as such, about God's being in particular, and even less does it tell us anything about how God's being might be [i] pictured [/ i].

To answer that question, the results of historical study of Christianity can be subjected to philosophical analysis to determine the essence of Christianity, that which defines it and yields criteria by which to assess any particular teaching, institution, or practice that claims to be «Christian.»

Whereas both types of analysis apply to existential, rather than to merely logical claims, it will be useful to take the former to apply within either the noetic or ontic poles of theological and philosophical discussion, the latter to the relation between them.

My analysis will consist of two parts, corresponding to the twofold claim of philosophical discourse to transparent objectivity and subjective autonomy.

In effect, under the category of poetics, philosophical analysis encounters those traits of revelation which may correspond with or respond to the nonviolent appeal of biblical revelation.

If we read the books of the Bible with the same literary criticism and philosophical analysis we use for the literary works you listed, we would not be having this discussion.