Sentences with phrase «philosophical discussion of»

Scientific and philosophical discussion of an essential question of our existence

I won't get into a philosophical discussion of whether we are actually happier or have better or worse values, but I do think we're spoiled, pampered, and live in fear of losing any little thing, because we seemingly have everything — cheap.

For example, one night, at a funeral in the village where I was living, a full - scale philosophical discussion of such issues broke out among eight or ten young men squatted around the courtyard «guarding» the corpse.

This is a step - by - step training manual and a philosophical discussion of the spiritual benefits of owning a dog.

As they unpack the film and analyze its effectiveness at delivering the message, they also engage in a philosophical discussion of the characters» actions and motivations.

Plus, a philosophical discussion of emotional satisfaction — what more could any sane person want?

Any philosophical discussion of the future life is apt to be related to the conservation of values.

A philosophical discussion of the roots of morality is one thing, but now she has accepted a belief system that has multiple claims which are demonstrably false.

It has often happened, however, that scientific developments have had major significance for subsequent philosophical discussion of problems of the one and the many.

How has it helped Heim as theologian then to have gone through the whole philosophical discussion of transcendence since theology can make nothing of it?

The ability of biology to detail the organisation and constitution of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour of an organism, should be taken into account in the theological and philosophical discussion of free will, individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially in regard to morality.

The philosophical discussions of justice after Plato have not been the most fruitful bases for radical social thought.

Even today philosophical discussions of justice tend to be theoretical and abstract.

This denial of reality to the past has been disastrous for philosophical discussions of efficient causality.

Since 1950, philosophical discussions of Whitehead's view of God have been influenced primarily by Charles Hartshorne and William Christian.50 Hartshorne has continued to develop and apply the doctrines of panpsychism and panentheism explained in Part One.

William Christian is the other major influence in current philosophical discussions of Whitehead.

Such an assumption, however, is no longer acceptable in many contemporary philosophical discussions of science and reason.

I believe that process thought has much to contribute to contemporary philosophical discussions of technology and that Hall's book is a significant step in this direction.

Not exact matches

In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»)

While judicial review is vital to safeguard our constitutional freedoms, a degree of moral and philosophical discussion flowing from constitutional litigation can not justify the costs that overreaching judicial rights declaration has for public debate and democratic governance.

While the general topic of lex talionis is always a fun philosophical discussion, I don't think it applies to what is going on in Israel right now.

It's especially easy in this exact discussion; you have to be very careful about advocating tolerance, or philosophical openness, because its all too easy for that argument to becomea self - defeating intolerance of intolerance.

Discussion of the existence of God is a philosophical question, so one has to be careful in one's arguments.

Discussion of the existence of God is a philosophical question.

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.

An unsettling question, but this way of posing it does keep it at arm's length, a subject for theological or philosophical or medical discussion.

In the discussion of the consequent nature, on the other hand, it is clear that philosophical and religious concerns are interrelated in Whitehead's presentation.

Whitehead has chosen to couch his whole philosophical discussion in the book in Platonic terms and to adopt «Eros» as the term for the primordial nature of God.

The question is presented as part of a larger discussion on the nature of philosophical and imperial authority, yet it is clear that the imperial part of the argument is not necessary to its main thrust, as a result standing out all the more.

Tolkien's unfinished, sprawling corpus of work is so vast, so rich in detail, so full of wide - ranging moral and philosophical issues, drawing on so many different sources, that the possibilities for discussion are endless.

Although what he writes is open and unapologetic «heresy», at least Jack Mahoney has highlighted the fact that the question of science and religion is not some purely academic issue revolving around a few specialised philosophical and theological discussions.

These questions take us far beyond the present state of our discussion, and I suspect that the present stage of philosophical development is not yet prepared to answer or even perhaps properly to formulate such questions.

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

To blend the philosophical discussion concerning the nature of such a god would be a distraction to that purpose.

i'm a sucker for philosophical discussions on the nature of religion and spirituality, particularly when they are as reasonable and well - mannered as the discussions here are.

You said, «The average atheist's complete inability to have even the simpliest of philosophical discussions without resorting to junvenile retorts» Please provide some evidence that shows that your god is any different from the Tooth Fairy.

1 would like to thank Tom Buford and The Personalist Discussion Group for inviting me to speak on the Hartshorne - Brightman Correspondence before their annual session at the 1995 Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association.

He rightly considers it a «temptation» that a philosophical concept of God could determine the distinctly theological discussion of trinitarian doctrine.

Its purpose was the discussion or the answering of questions coming from the scientific and philosophical criticism of Christianity.

Elton, William, Discussion: «On Hartshorne's Formulation of the Ontological Argument: A Criticism,» Philosophical Review 54 (Jan., 1945), 63.

Its purpose was the discussion or the answering at questions coming from the scientific and philosophical criticism of Christianity.

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

R. G. Collingwood, in his well - known book, The Idea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.»

But in most philosophical discussion, he observes, realism usually means a commitment to the correspondence theory of truth, the law of the excluded middle and a nonepistemic view of truth.

We may even relate our discussion to the various conclusions of philosophical investigation.

I was refering to the ad campaign being a philosophical discussion, as it is targetted at exposing a wider range of the public to the beliefs of Humanists (at least as American Humanist Association understands them).

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.

«advertising campaign in the article was the subject of this conversation» it was until you changed gears and stated «It's a philosophical discussion, not an attempt to pass legislation»

For critical discussions of Ogden's argument and the entire book, see Langdon B. Gilkey, «A Theology in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 624.