Sentences with phrase «philosophical challenges of»

What Joseph Silk's article (8 March, p 26) on the philosophical challenges of cosmology neglected to mention was the issue...

Acutely sensitive to all of the technological and philosophical challenges of our day, Wytsma wrestles with questions of faith and doubt, justice and happiness, love and vocation.

Not exact matches

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.

Bernard Coughlin, S.J., title this collection of essays «Letters to Young People,» because it would inform and challenge college - aged students who are grappling with philosophical, spiritual, political, and ethical questions for the first time.

Together they were elaborating a philosophical position which boldly challenged traditional modes of thinking and came to be called «The Chicago School» of philosophy.

In the first draft of Catholicism, now published thanks to Fr Nesbitt as Matter and Mind, we find a fuller discussion than Catholicism offers of Fr Holloway's view of this philosophical movement and its challenge to Christian belief.

Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been challenged by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background of modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.

Even as structuralism was being adapted for the study of biblical literature, its assumptions and claims were being challenged in the wider world of philosophical and literary studies.

To both of them, philosophical concerns, particularly Existential philosophical issues posed important challenges.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

Yoder challenges the philosophical moves we have learned so thoroughly from Troeltsch through the Niebuhrs, and so we are desperate to make him but another example of what it means to be a sectarian.

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?

Earlier related works include «Freedom As Perfection: Whitehead, Thomas and Augustine» Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, XXXVI (1962), 134 - 142; «Whitehead's Challenge to Theistic Realism,» The New Scholasticism, XXXVIII, 1 (January 1964), 1 - 21; and «Is God Really Related to This World?»

Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil in it?

I have come to the conclusion that for we who live in the Western world, the major challenge to the viability of Christianity is not Buddhism, with all its philosophical appeal to the Western mind, nor is it Islam, with all the challenge that it poses to Western culture.

One of the more frustrating elements of this group (like so many others) is that every effort at edification or even simple concern seems to be challenged for it's philosophical point of view.

This leads Derrida to challenge both the philosophical presumption that linguistic signifiers can convey an accurate picture of an extra-textual reality and the tendency of metaphysicians to privilege these philosophical assertions as higher expressions of truth.

All of sudden, science was challenging some of the philosophical / theological teaching of the church, and once again, the church was faced with the question of what to do about it.

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

By the end of the eighteenth century, the twin challenges of the natural sciences, along with their philosophical interpreters, and of scientific historical study profoundly challenged the credibility of received forms of Christian faith.

It challenged the traditional Christian understanding of God as unaffected by the world on scriptural rather than philosophical grounds, but the description of God sounded very similar to that of process theology.

Russell Hittinger has brought out further complexities of Thomistic developments in the wake of Aeterni Paths: «Thomists developed rather freewheeling accounts of the political, economic, legal and social order -LSB-... putting] Thomism in an offensive mode as far as social doctrine went -LSB-... whereas] in matters related to sacred doctrine [philosophical] Thomism would be put into a defensive role» such that scholasticism could not be publicly challenged within the Church.

We would concur noting that the task of defending these spiritual and supernatural realms as fulfilling and flowing from our knowledge of the physical and natural realms is the philosophical challenge at the heart of the modern culture war.

But it has also produced a large philosophical challenge to those of us who have been trying to develop principles to apply to the immigration policies of democratic states.

This neuro - philosophical understanding of human nature presents a number of challenges that can only be addressed through appropriate forms of governance.

The symbolic Einstein touches me through his seismic influence on popular culture; the scientific Einstein reaches me through his serpentine formulas and theories; the philosophical Einstein reaches deepest into my heart, challenging my notions of beauty and spirituality.

This is fiction that challenges, that takes risks, that dares to bring dollops of strangeness into an ostensibly everyday narrative, that forces the reader to re-evaluate his or her perception of «reality», to question values and beliefs whether scientific, religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological or whatever.

The topic of Boltzmann brains is raised once again in Joseph Silk's look at the philosophical challenges facing modern cosmology...

No matter your opinion on these changes, it is likely that the shifts caused to the practical and philosophical landscape of the scientific enterprise will provide challenges and opportunities for us all.

Conceptions of free will could evaporate, and deep - rooted philosophical and religious beliefs may be challenged to their core.

They seek relief from a breadth of physical and mental health challenges, and are as interested in the philosophical and psychological nuances of yoga as they are movement.

Beautiful visuals, challenging puzzles, thoughtful but «borrowed» philosophical content, and the ultimately false promise of deep mystery to

Beautiful visuals, challenging puzzles, thoughtful but «borrowed» philosophical content, and the ultimately false promise of deep mystery to be uncovered.

«It is an adventurous film that pushes aesthetic and philosophical boundaries, making it a perfect fit for Kino Lorber which never shrinks from taking up the challenge of an art film we believe in,» lauded Kino Lorber exec Wendy Lidell.

It was a challenging until but the pupils seemed to get a lot out of it and were able to discuss and write about some hard philosophical ideas after completion.

The final piece of our philosophical puzzle was the trickiest because it presented a challenge to our charter analogy.

NSCS has maintained many of its philosophical education roots, with its focus on keeping the curricula challenging and the expectations for learning high, while utilizing the help and support of qualified educational assistance and classroom volunteers.

Then you should create unambiguous questions, the ones that would challenges and / or support certain philosophical ideas for them to become the core of your thesis.

Among the challenges in building a sequel to the philosophical shooting game BioShock — and there were a lot of challenges — was the fact that no matter how the player ended the first game, it left the protagonist, Jack, unfit for future hero service.

Her three - dimensional receptacles of thoughts, ideas and notes contain visual, conceptual and philosophical paradoxes that challenge perceptions and that offer literal and metaphorical windows into which one can glimpse the inner workings of the artist's mind.

Haji Omar has long used artwork to explore sociopolitical subjects such as cultural hybridity and the transformation of language, and to visually address philosophical and physiological challenges of the human condition.

Performing the Grid brings together an intergenerational group of artists and cultural producers that utilize the grid as a performative strategy to examine, challenge and position philosophical, political, social, domestic, corporeal, mythical and ideological perspectives.

You will find that each one of them makes work with an intensely emotional, philosophical or psychological charge, and so their work operates in a challenging, profound way.

New Era explores the technological ambivalence of contemporary culture, raising philosophical questions about the challenges of immediate access to communication and network while we distance ourselves from our metaphysical being.

Relying also on the images that surround us, John Baldessari encourages the viewer's attention to minor details, absence, and the space between things, and through his manipulation of the image, and the painting over the faces with primary colors, and the obscuring of the portions of the scenes, challenges and creates philosophical inquiries into art and knowledge.

Does the challenge of selecting living artists and specific artworks for the exhibition pose conflicts with your philosophical position?

Barrie Cook's work for example has affinity with experimental findings made recently into how we construct colour, findings that challenge some of what we thought we knew from Sir Isaac Newton, the philosophical implications of which are explored by Donald D. Hoffman in his book Visual Intelligence, How We Create What We See.

one thing I would like challenged (from a philosophical standpoint) is the view that acceptance of climate change science is an ideological choice.

What we really need is for subjects to challenge and define the philosophical basis of their subjects.

There should have a more meaningful discussion on the genuine need to challenge the ideological and philosophical doctrine of environmentalism and the real need to tackle social and economic development issues to ensure that tried and tested old values and customs are adaptable to the modern times around the globe.