Sentences with phrase «philosophical insights in»

KM Aul explains the protagonist's limitations and philosophical insights in a very unique and well - written manner.

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The philosophical insight is old but supported by discoveries in cosmology (scientifically) that the universe came into being at the big bang.

Whether the possibility of this new Jewish - Christian relationship will be realized in and for our time will depend in large measure on the theological ingenuity, philosophical perspicacity, and historical insight of leading thinkers in each community.

Here again, Dr. Baglow has done a masterful job of presenting the crucial doctrines and the theological and philosophical insights of Catholic tradition in an engaging and illuminating way.

In his philosophical works Edward Holloway suggests a slight realignment of detail within the realist tradition in the light of modern insights into material realitIn his philosophical works Edward Holloway suggests a slight realignment of detail within the realist tradition in the light of modern insights into material realitin the light of modern insights into material reality.

«1 But despite Plato's insight that power is involved in both the ability to affect and the ability to be affected (with its implication that reality and value might involve both), there has been a persistent tendency to favor what Bernard Loomer has called unilateral power — the ability to affect while remaining unaffected.2 Although this tendency is evident in every field of human thought, it will be appropriate to examine it first in the philosophical tradition, where it goes hand in hand with the valuation of being over becoming.

Both Rahner and Holloway were attempting to synthesise the scholastic tradition with modern philosophical insights, these latter being much more established in Rahner's case - namely emerging from the Existentialist tradition.

However, this «new reformation», he believes, will incorporate the early Christian insights but will provide for them a new philosophical context in the light of science, philosophy, and other modern ways of seeing the creation and the relationship of God to that creation.

Hartshorne remarks that while «many theological and philosophical doctrines» of the traditional kind have asserted that «being divine means precisely, and above all, being wholly immune to suffering in any and every sense», yet in his judgement the insight of faith in Jesus as the Christ would rather point logically to the truth that «there must be suffering in God».

This essay attempts to make a contribution to that ongoing dialogue by corroborating some of the central features of Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal theory of psychiatry in light of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical insights about the nature of reality.

Whitehead» s religiously - guided education might have been unsuited for modern times, yet it is fair to say that his profound philosophical development had its beginning in some very early insights, for example, the concept of the consequent nature of God and the evidence of God's presence in the pattern of beauty in mathematics.

In his address «Christianity, Marxisn - Liberation Theology,» prepared for his United States tour this past spring, Pannenberg declared his strong opposition to Marxism and by implication any theology that appeals to Marxism for philosophical or sociological insight.

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

Regarding his intellectual affinities, Hartshorne feels himself to be «closest» to Charles Sanders Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A. N. Whitehead.4 He expresses gratitude to his Harvard professors C. I. Lewis and H. M. Sheffer for introducing him to «logical exactitude,» and especially to Professor William Ernest Hocking, his first teacher in philosophical theology, for fresh insights into a philosophically trustworthy vision of God.5 Furthermore, he acknowledges some indebtedness to Josiah Royce, William James, and Ralph Barton Perry, as well as a close kinship to the Russian existentialist Nicolai Berdyaev.6 Nevertheless, Hartshome's philosophy is strikingly similar and most profoundly indebted to that of A. N. Whitehead.

A comparison with the earlier philosophical debate on immortality offers an insight into the importance of the change in perspective.

Not only have such men long since become convinced of the essential incoherence of this theism in its efforts to combine the religious insights of Christianity with the philosophical wisdom of the Greeks, but they are also deeply repelled by the central claim of Greek wisdom, that this world of time and change is somehow inferior or not fully real.

The question that Christians (or other religious people) should ask themselves here is philosophical rather than sociological: Granting (as I think we must) that modern science has given us new and often penetrating insights into reality and that modern technology has enormously increased our control over our lives, is it not possible that in the process some very precious things have been lost?

[16] This heritage, which many Indian - Christian theologians have too often accepted uncritically, accepting the broad brush - strokes, without going into the nitty - gritty details, needs to be re-examined and re-evaluated so that the meaning of several concepts which such a heritage has spawned and which is reflected, often unconsciously, in the present attitudes of Indian - Christians, can be liberated «from the socio - cultural, philosophical and historical contexts in which they have been deified, and make their theological insights reincarnate in the life and concerns of the people.

To claim, as process thinkers do, that the self is the momentary self in its subjective immediacy goes not only contrary to the insights of the inherited tradition and common sense but presents a serious philosophical problem.

Although loyally Swiss Reformed (a bust of Zwingli stood just outside the door of his study at home), his great appreciation for Luther enhanced his incorporation of certain philosophical and biblical insights and resulted in what might be called a theology of encounter.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

It arises out of philosophical necessity and is only slightly affected, as in the discussion of peace, by special religious insight or need.

The work I cultivate and pursue in the world is simply an integration of philosophical principles, spiritual insights, and a progressive return to natural living.

Whether they are giving you the lowdown about asana, taking you on a journey in your meditation, explaining ancient occult wisdom or shedding light on complex philosophical topics, their collective insights will open your mind, expand your awareness and provide you with the knowledge and encouragement to be the best teacher that you can be.

In the first, the soft - spoken Adele meets Emma in a gay bar and gradually develops a bond with her, fascinated by the slightly older woman's sly gaze and philosophical insightIn the first, the soft - spoken Adele meets Emma in a gay bar and gradually develops a bond with her, fascinated by the slightly older woman's sly gaze and philosophical insightin a gay bar and gradually develops a bond with her, fascinated by the slightly older woman's sly gaze and philosophical insights.

Both Harris and O'Keefe were also interested in eastern philosophy, spiritual mysticism and theosophy, a form of philosophical or religious thought based on mystical insight into the nature of God.

Britain's Royal Society has published a helpful new collection of papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that provide fresh insights on how the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities could affect ocean ecology.

My experience has given me a deep and invaluable insight into the philosophical underpinnings of each business regulation which has helped me in advising my clients in a holistic manner, that has delivered them the desired results; because the ultimate litmus test of a lawyer is the result he can achieve for his clients.

[3] Ibid: «In the form of philosophical positivism, the new viewpoint became a militant movement intent on remaking modern education and culture, one that claimed to have superseded all previous forms of knowledge and insight.»