Sentences with phrase «philosophical issue at»

And there's a larger philosophical issue at stake: Moskowitz is a constant critic of the Department of Education and its schools, and has sought to define her network in total opposition to the hulking bureaucracy of the DOE.

Catholic schools take a risk in covering moral and philosophical issues at GCSE, since they are constrained by the secular agenda.

Not exact matches

If these sound like big philosophical quandaries at the heart of not just being an entrepreneur but also being a human then maybe that's why most solutions to work - life balance issues seem a little inadequate.

And they will — or at least should — thereby bring to the fore the philosophical and legal complexities of the issue of consent.

We'll look at the latest research, consider the relevant philosophical / theological issues at hand, and discuss best practices.

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.

I conclude that Craig and the process theist are at an impasse so that if a decision is to be made concerning the cognitive superiority of either the kalam or process theistic models, this must be made by appeal to issues in philosophical theology other than the question of the extension of the past.

Rather, the primary issue at stake among the churches is a philosophical question what is the nature of human life and which philosophical concepts most adequately depict it?

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

Further, if Heidegger's reputation for attention to the «big» issues of philosophical anthropology means anything at all, it would also seem to mean that Heidegger's «philosophy of being» can not be distinguished from considerations about how one ought to behave — and a fortiori how Heidegger behaved.

The reason this amuses me, to be honest, is that, whenever he himself turns to philosophical issues, Richard Dawkins is Wendy Wright — or, at least, her temperamental twin.

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).

Take a look at ten issues from that first year or two and you'll find essays on religious freedom, war and peace, marriage and family, philosophical materialism, literary figures, and theological movements.

For those of us who are embroiled in the day to day issues of euthanasia, care of the elderly and care of the unborn it is good to take a step back and to look at some of the key philosophical issues that arise in day to day medical ethics.

At the bedside, doctors are uncomfortable about philosophical issues because they get in the way of action.

What is at issue theologically is the question of whether Hegelian or Whiteheadian thinking is the best philosophical vehicle for the contemporary expression of the cognitive meaning of the Christian faith.

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.

While the issue of consciousness is of great philosophical interest, the high humanism at stake in such discussions is often more of a problem for theology than the denial that consciousness is necessary to sustain human uniqueness.

24 See Charles Hartshorne, «A New Look at the Problem of Evil,» Current Philosophical Issues: Essays in Honor of Curt John Ducasse (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publications, 1966), p. 204.

Higgins said he doesn't have a philosophical issue with the single - payer model, but while some are estimating Sanders plan could cost more than $ 30 trillion over a decade — with no plan from the senator at the moment on how to cover that cost — his comes at no extra charge to the government.

And if you want to amuse yourself for an hour, look at the first few issues of their journal The Philosophical Transaction, filled with deadly serious experiments and a whole lot of various sort of flakey, gentlemanly figures who sent in all kinds of, well, just observations.

I feel sorry if whoever would go see The Hot Chick or National Security happened to have wandered into Solaris — years of brain rot at the movies would have left them unprepared for the philosophical issues this movie addresses.

Complying with the intent of the least restrictive environment mandate at the preschool level requires concerted effort on the part of administrators, staff and parents addressing a host of issues — some philosophical, some practical, all of them essential.

Superfine has taught various courses at UIC, including Educational Policy: Formation, Implementation, Outcomes; Standards - based Reform, Accountability, and Opportunities to Learn; Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Educational Policy, Current Issues in Educational Policy, and Philosophical Foundations of Educational Inquiry.

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.

The show captures Guston immersed in the New York School alongside such contemporaries as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, grappling with the philosophical issues the School sought to address; his pieces delve into the medium of painting and seek to arrive at the significance of abstraction.

The Royal Academy Forum is the RA's long established forum for public debate on the arts, exploring ideas at the intersections of different artistic practices, and their interface with philosophical, political, social and economic issues and contexts.

In this most recent version of This Situation at IMMA, the gallery is occupied by a group of six «participants» or «interpreters» whose choreographed actions generate a discussion of cultural, economic and philosophical issues.

Kleidon's paper, to be published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society comes at a fresh angle to the familiar issues around global warming - that of the laws of thermodynamics.

This is an epistemological point that I am ill equipped to conclude (my IQ falls below the threshold required for reasoned philosophical debate on this issue), except to say that I'm completely mystified as to why, given we're inside the bounds of natural variation (according to the Vostok and Greenland cores — correct me if I'm wrong), there is any need for a debate at all.

John Carter wrote: > For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change...

For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change, rather assess what those actual facts of the issue are, and more importantly, why they are relevant.

While MCA 2005 presents us with a two - stage test that needs to be applied to establish whether an individual lacks capacity, «borderline» capacity cases raise difficult, and at times almost philosophical issues, as to what is meant by the proper weighing of information, and how judges approach such cases.

It's a philosophical issue in western thought that's known to have been bruited since at least Plato.