Sentences with phrase «philosophical insights of»

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.

Not exact matches

Rather than drone on about supply tightness and healthy demand (which we have discussed many times before here, here, here, here, and here), the point of this note is more philosophical and intended to offer insights into how to view the lithium space out over the next 18 to 24 months.

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.

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

If these sciences are to afford valuable insights into human nature, they must be broadened to include philosophical considerations growing out of the critical scrutiny of science and technology as human undertakings.

The study concludes with an analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.

«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.

No brief summary can do justice to the book's imaginative blending of philosophical literature and social science research, to the wealth of small insights tucked into every chapter, or to the graceful writing that carries the reader along so effortlessly.

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.

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.

Kaplan's analysis of Jewish nationalism begins with the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and medieval Jewish theology, while simultaneously freely utilizing modern sociological and philosophical insights.

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

The third section, fifty percent longer than the first two together, considers several theological and philosophical questions raised by the relation between sacred theology and contemporary evolutionary theory, They include the distinction between spirit and matter, the unity of spirit and matter, the concepts of becoming, of cause and of operation, the creation of the spiritual soul, the insights of Aristotelian scholasticism, and the biblical narrative of man's origin as it relates to the theory of evolution.

It is true to the insight of the Bible, which the philosophical tradition has tended to obscure behind the impassive mask of absolute, static being.

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.

[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.

Any effort to restate the insights of the Christian faith within a philosophical framework is bound to awaken protest among many Protestant thinkers for the reason that Protestant theologians have tended to dissociate faith from any consciously conceived rational structure.

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

These include a Catholic mind that takes seriously Adam Smith's economic and philosophical insights; the affirmation that markets must be grounded upon particular moral, political, and legal habits and institutions; the attention to how awareness of the reality of sin should incubate us against economic utopianism; and, perhaps above all, the sustained effort to locate democratic capitalism within a vision of God and man, thereby giving it genuine theological meaning.

Whitehead's stress on the importance of perceptions of causal efficacy implies that excluding insights generated from women's experience from informing linguistic theory and philosophical theories of perception and knowledge only insures that these theories will be inadequate and oversimplified.

Samuel Beer's The City of Reason is a rigorous philosophical investigation with numerous insights of genuine significance.

Furthermore, the fact that Whitehead's theory of perception provides a philosophical context and categories which are consistent with these aspects of experience makes it more likely that women's experience will be credited with contributing important and unique insights about experience which have heretofore been overlooked or regarded as insignificant.

With their new classical names, and their insights into history and literature, their attitudes stretched all the way from a lampooning of the gullible piety of the masses to a more philosophical agnosticism or a mysticism, which stood apart from ecclesiastical authority.

Heidegger thought that later Reformation traditions had failed to build on Luther's radical insight, and he saw himself as «a kind of philosophical Luther of Western metaphysics.»

The neural code could yield insights into such ancient philosophical conundrums as the mind - body problem and the riddle of free will.

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.

I do love writing and I have a philosophical side where I like to think big thoughts and glean insights and spot trends and shifts so I'd like to be able to feed that side of my psyche this year.

What makes Minority Report so good isn't the fact it managed to successfully predict several aspects of the future, or that it offered some revolutionizing insight into the ever - going philosophical debate of free will versus predetermination, or that it features great performances from not only Cruise but also Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow and Samantha Morton.

And sometimes the comedy comes from the deepest kind of philosophical insight: when Charles, Karl's fellow patient and inmate, asks him at the end of the film how he found the world outside, Karl's reply is simply, «It was too big.»

The current models do not emphasize the more philosophical, associational insight but instead imply a false sense of precision with mathematical numbers.

Written with the pace and thrust of a thriller, this is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.

Comment: The Society of Others is part intellectual adventure and part moral fable, overlaid with profound philosophical insight.

From the book jacket: Written with the pace and thrust of a thriller, this is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.

Rogers has a scientist's curiosity and a poet's eye and consequently writes of the cosmos — from the subatomic world to the stars, from a bird perching on a branch to the workings of the human brain — with passionate specificity, philosophical insight, and elegantly expressed exaltation.

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.»

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