Sentences with phrase «philosophical assumptions»

Ideas, and their open debate matter; philosophy and underlying philosophical assumptions matter.

In these essays they give only secondary attention to theories that reflect different philosophical assumptions.

And a careful investigation of our own experiencing may lead us to question the common philosophical assumption that it is.

The uniqueness of the existential therapies lies not in their methods but in their underlying philosophical assumptions.

He cautioned that theological doctrines have always been filled with philosophical assumptions about the natural world, and instead of perpetuating these assumptions, we should regularly re-assess them.

Barr, on the other hand, seems to defend it by suggesting that inerrancy could be abandoned with very little adjustment in the pattern of evangelical belief — and that the doctrine is, in fact, despite claims to the contrary, more a product of philosophical assumptions than genuine exegesis.

How could American Lutherans make an idol of a nation whose philosophical assumptions (enlightenment liberalism) and dominant religious tradition (revivalist Calvinism) were so fundamentally at odds with their most basic understandings?

The Supreme Court's recognition of gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges rests upon some key philosophical assumptions.

Swinburne's background in the philosophy of science gives him an advantage in sorting out the legitimate science in these books from their questionable philosophical assumptions.

On the scientific side, theists need to continue to expose the vulnerable philosophical assumptions that provide the only real support for the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Father Oakes rightly summarizes the objections to evolution as being based not on science but on implicit philosophical assumptions attributed to evolution by its critics.

Most contemporary «American» theologies are still influenced by some unexamined philosophical assumptions about how truth is known.

(30) The existential therapists hold that therapists» basic philosophical assumptions about the human situation have a profound influence on everything they do in the practice of their art — how they perceive and relate to the client, how they understand the causes of human problems, how they use particular techniques, and how they understand the growth possibilities inherent in crises situations.

He finds that «hierarchies in general embed untenable philosophical assumptions....»

Responsible hedonism The second philosophical assumption is that humans are basically hedonistic: pleasure and / or happiness is their ultimate goal.

Ongoing psychological assessment A third philosophical assumption, one that often receives lip service in the correctional community but is rarely applied, is that psychological assessment should be an ongoing and vital part of the treatment process.

Both ACT and RFT are particular arms of Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS), a scientific approach to knowledge rooted in contextual philosophical assumptions with the aim of prediction and influence of behavior.

The way the left's principles have been gutted meant it was unable express itself with the conviction of right - wing politicians, whose philosophical assumptions were interpreted as objective truths about the human condition.

Utilizing both ACT and MCBT together can be difficult, because the approaches make different philosophical assumptions and have different theoretical models.

The problem lies less with the «facts» they are taught than with the philosophical assumptions, the governing worldview, with which they are taught to interpret the various subjects.

We want to learn whether tere are limitations of Whitehead's theory that have negative implications for the philosophical assumptions that underlie it.

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions...

The Victorians had confidence in their own intellectual and moral righteousness, born of a philosophical assumption that truth is self - evident.

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

It is a concession to the secularist assumption that arguments about public policy and state behaviour must appeal only to «public reason»; that they must be accessible to all, regardless of their religious or philosophical assumptions.

My case for the need for process philosophy depends, obviously, not only on arguing that the effort to develop a theology that makes no philosophical assumptions fails but also that the philosophies that were chiefly employed in the past are, at best, inadequate and, in fact, often distorting.

«Personal Identity», Emerging Technologies and the Law New Zealand law professor Colin Gavaghan discusses the philosophical assumptions about personal identity that underlie many legal concepts.