Sentences with phrase «philosophical ideas in»

«One of the fascinating stories that come out of these letters is of a struggle to contain what was certainly a very intense relationship which mixed emotions and philosophical ideas in proper Christian boundaries.»

I shall be as explicit as possible about the presuppositions concerning how we know what we know, and the general philosophical ideas in relation to which this interpretation of the Christian faith is developed.

Not exact matches

He finds himself in his own flow state when he attempts to verbally communicate a large, mind - bending philosophical idea.

«It» has an impact, but its impact is deterministic, it had no «choice» in the matter, it was just executing along determistically (Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.

In medieval philosophical texts one idea often given as an example of impossibility was the «rose in the winter.&raquIn medieval philosophical texts one idea often given as an example of impossibility was the «rose in the winter.&raquin the winter.»

In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular biologists when it is presented as an idea with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent facIn short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular biologists when it is presented as an idea with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent facin the world of innocent fact.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

In this volume, I am not undertaking to criticize philosophical ideas philosophically.

It is notorious that the ineradicable ideas left in Descartes's mind after he had doubted everything were products of the philosophical and theological work, or more broadly of the cultural matrix, that had formed his mind.

«30 But no earlier than in Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas does the philosophical relevance of revelation - theological content assume reflexive shape.31

«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world - view in which the idea of God encountered in human history is thoroughly integrated.

Whatever roles philosophical and theological ideas played in the debates over heliocentrism, biological evolution, and the Big Bang theory, the scientific issues were eventually settled by more and better data and by considerations that were purely «scientific» in the modern sense.

There is also continuity in the correspondence between the qualifiers used for God in both [D] and [E]: «unmoved mover» in 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin the correspondence between the qualifiers used for God in both [D] and [E]: «unmoved mover» in 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin both [D] and [E]: «unmoved mover» in 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBin [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRBIn [D]-RRB-.

A fact may be defined as something that occurred in reality, but at the solipsist state you can't talk of any reality beyond your own conscience, so the way you made yourself ready to dismiss solipsism as a philosophical idea, not a fact, simply doesn't make any sense.

But now we're talking not about the belief in a god, but the ramifications or theology or philosophical dealing with that idea.

On a more practical level, there is the problem of actually putting philosophical ideas to work in the classroom.

In the extensive secondary literature on Weil, her religious ideas are frequently treated with little understanding of their philosophical, theological, moral and social - political bearing.

John wishes to emphasize that the Word of God had «descended» from the realm of the Spirit and had become no longer a mental image, no longer a philosophical idea, but a human being in history.

He believed that «the true method of philosophical construction is to frame a scheme of ideas, the best that one can, and unflinchingly to explore the interpretation of experience in terms of that scheme» (PR xiv / x).

Radical ideas are rather presented in poetry, philosophical parables, sufi - metaphysical ideas and so on; for these modes of communication were safer for the writers.

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.

This comes out clearly in one of his latest statements about the therapeutic» function of philosophy as applied to social issues: «helping people get out from under outdated philosophical ideas, helping break the crust of convention.»

The past forty years have brought a recovery of the idea of just war in Christian ethical discourse, and this has invigorated a larger engagement with the just war idea in policy debate, in the military sphere, in philosophical thought, and in dialogue between moral reflection and international law.

His ideas and proposals can be recommended on their merits also to those who are not interested in their philosophical sources.

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.&raIdea 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.&raidea 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.»

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

I regard this preparation as now complete... in order to develop the philosophical ideas to which they have led me.

He finds all philosophical ideas of God resistant to the Biblical understanding of a God who acts selectively in history.

The real distinction between some philosophical ideas, which are nonbiblical in their implications, and the scriptural picture is exactly what I urged above: that between history read in terms of nature and nature read in terms of history.

In addition to its classic and philosophical expressions, the idea of freedom through understanding runs as a leitmotif through the whole history of modern science and humanism.

Many scholars have suggested that there are two distinct phases in Marx's writings: early Marx, which includes at least the rather humanistic ideas of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844) and The Communist Manifesto (1848); and later Marx which has the much more technical and «scientific» economics of Das Capital, the first volume of which was published in 1867.

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

His idea of a «new synthesis», proposed mainly in his book Catholicism: A New Synthesis and developed in his many theological and philosophical essays, was an attempt to grapple precisely with the issues we have spoken of: the post-Cartesian «turn to the subject» (that is: the loss of faith in the objectivity of knowledge and the subsequent exclusive concern of philosophy with the self and the subjective idea as the norm of «truth») and the philosophy of evolution with its implications for a dynamic rather than a static universe.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

But these men are important historically in a third way: not only their results and their methods but the philosophical interpretations of their ideas had a major impact on Western thought.

So, in short, this «evidence» that proves Christianity isn't so much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection story.

The intellectual roots of terrorism lie in three philosophical ideas which, ironically, are peculiarly Western: popular sovereignty, self - determination and ethical consequentialism.

What is striking is that reflection coming out of life experience and Biblical study in communities that have taken for granted the reality of God converge so far with the ideas of God that come from those who have wrestled with, and proposed alternatives to, the dominant philosophical views.

There were philosophical debates among Greek philosophers as to exactly what this word means, but common to their usage was the idea expressed in the adage, «two substances can not occupy the same space at the same time.»

Cardinal Schönborn had criticized the broader thrust of «neo-Darwinian dogma», and in his first catechetical lecture has given examples of the misapplying of scientific ideas to make atheistic philosophical inferences.

Humboldt as an empiricist, psychologist, and historian was ever attracted by the riddle of individuality, while his philosophical interest forced him to seek the idea or norm in which reality appears idealized.

The direct evidence consists of what Whitehead himself tells us, first, about how his books are meant to be read and understood, about the genesis of his ideas, and about modifications in his views; and second, about the nature of his thinking, about his difficulties in translating his thoughts into words, about the sources of his philosophical terminology, and about the peculiar manner in which he composed his books.

Thus, waxing philosophical, he agrees that «power» is a relational concept and yet at the same time he considers it to be a simple idea, one that can not be «divided» further, being but one uniform appearance or conception of the mind — it is received by observing both in ourselves and in natural bodies an ability to produce various effects.

In the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AIIn the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AIin Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AI).

In three epochs science has suggested philosophical ideas: the Greek period, the seventeenth century, and the twentieth century.

Also, in a letter to Mark Barr concerning the possibility of being offered a post at Harvard, Whitehead says the post would be very attractive because it would provide him the opportunity of developing in systematic form his «ideas on Logic, the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, and some more general questions, half philosophical and half practical, such as Education» (ANW - 2 134).

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emergIn the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emergin the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

If we take the idea of query seriously, then the merit of a philosophical system rests in its capacity to promote query, not in its completion as defined by its author.

[4] Atheism in general doesn't give us the philosophical tools to sort out when a greater loss is worth the price of ending the suffering of others — and in fact it can create dilemmas like the problem of what to do with children who are being indoctrinated by their parents into ideas we do not agree with.

Charles Hartshorne has written extensively about the merits of this philosophical position, and a loose adaptation of his ideas on its advantages may be set forth in the following short list: 17