Sentences with phrase «philosophical influences as»

Perhaps this is not surprising» for, over his long career, this American thinker, born in Germany in 1928, has proved extraordinarily willing to draw on Christian theologians: Karl Barth, for instance, whom Wyschogrod deploys in his efforts to free Judaism from dependence on such extraneous philosophical influences as Aristotle and Kant.

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But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

Anthropologists such as Margaret Mead had a remarkable influence on social science, philosophical thinking and professional training.

The Jewish tradition, which has also influenced Christian theology, although not always so much as the Greek philosophical tradition, did see the body as valuable and integral to the life of the person.

One's acceptance or rejection of the doctrine will be largely influenced by one's own philosophical and theological presu - ppositions, as well as the weight one gives to Church teaching.»

There is also a fifth, more detached, philosophical way of looking at these issues without appealing to «direct historical influence» as if it were some sort of causal connection as Lowe claims it is.7 Of course the fourth line and fifth lines are outside ordinary present - day historiographical research, excepting undergraduates in general education courses (who seem inevitably to find, in spite of the odds in a fair - sized library, Russell's History of Western Philosophy first, and then cite it liberally).

We have described the philosophical and religious factors which influence all three levels of causation and have indicated the manner in which alcohol serves as a pseudo solution to historical and existential anxiety.

Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).

Under the onslaught of the physical sciences, the life sciences, the social sciences, and the philosophical thought processes that accompanied them, the religious arena shrank to such a point that the church began to be perceived as no longer a significant influence at all, but rather as a minor institution that could safely be tolerated or ignored.

Thus, in considering the influence of philosophical resources upon the development of theology in America, we do well in Dewey's case not to emphasize (as do most commentators) A Common Faith, but rather to attend to the earlier «nontheological» works: Studies in Logical Theory and How We Think.

In this section I propose to investigate simultaneously two related questions: (1) to what extent is Whitehead's accomplishment similar to or compatible with evolutionary process cosmologies; and (2) to what extent is he influenced in his philosophical development by evolutionist theories generally, or by evolutionary cosmologists, including those whom he cites by name, such as Bergson, Alexander, and Morgan?

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

It took years of studying the history in which the Bible was written, learning about the other influences that often aren't taught in religious settings... and considering those religious influences, as well as the scientific and philosophical influences... to reach to the conclusions I have reached today — though I admit they still aren't and never will be perfect (like when I said IT doesn't care.

Whitehead's influence is more and more permeating the current scene in philosophical theology as well as in metaphysical thinking.

The persistence of this belief has had disastrous influence through the centuries on philosophical and theological thought, and upon physical theories as well.

Apart from some traditional philosophical influences, this is due mainly to the fact that relativity excluded the universal cosmic «Now» as the substratum of absolute simultaneity; and since such «Now» was naturally viewed as a boundary between past and future events, its elimination was interpreted as a denial of the successive character of the world.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

As the influence of the scientific community grew, so did philosophical debates within that community.

«The fluorescence and expansion of Teotihuacán as a regional power between 100 and 400 CE occurred during an interval of persistent and stable rainfall,» the researchers report in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Teotihuacán, during its heyday, influenced large portions of central Mexico.

As to whether our efforts will influence policy, that is a philosophical and political science question, and this is a web site for scientific information.]

But we need not view the influence of philosophical values as an embarrassment anymore.

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

Despite its simplicity, collage as a device can influence the mechanical and philosophical bearings of an artwork.

Highly influenced by phenomenological philosopher, Maurice Merleau - Ponty; Nesbit harnesses philosophical investigations of human perception to address issues within image making in an effort to not only exist as an object, or momentous glance, but as an invitation for a suspended visceral exchange.

In an emotive and kind of philosophical way, Jesse creates large - scale pieces influenced by repressed subconscious as well as memories and certain sensations.

Tolstoy's philosophical doctrine of non-violence, had a profound influence on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King encouraging pacifism as a political tool for social change.

To this end, it intermixes biographical facts, a selection of texts by the writers and artists who influenced Klein, a glossary of keywords with Klein's own definitions derived from published texts as well as previously unpublished manuscripts and a selection of critical writings with analyses of Klein's philosophical ideas by the author and editor of this volume, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann.

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Contributions include a concise and incisive overview of Borremans» practice; a revealing, in - depth interview between the main author of the book, Jeffrey Grove, and the artist, addressing process, influence and philosophical and critical issues; as well as more than 50 individual entries and mini-essays on individual works in the artist's oeuvre by notable writers, curators, filmmakers and musicians.

Contributions include a concise and incisive overview of Borremans's practice; a revealing, in - depth interview between the main author of the book, Jeffrey Grove, and the artist, addressing process, influence and philosophical and critical issues; as well as more than 50 individual entries and mini-essays on individual works in the artist's oeuvre by notable writers, curators, filmmakers, and musicians.

His brother was the painter Balthus, his early mentors included Rilke and Andre Gide, and his philosophical writings and erotic fiction would eventually influence such intellectual supermen as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean - Francois Lyotard.

As to whether our efforts will influence policy, that is a philosophical and political science question, and this is a web site for scientific information.]

By attempting to influence history based on her philosophical convictions, she makes the same error as Karl Marx.

These processes concern the environment and context of the provision of help, workers» philosophical approach to providing help, as well as the workers» sensitivities to cultural and ethnic influences.