"Philosophical issues" refers to questions or problems that arise about the nature of knowledge, existence, ethics, reality, or other fundamental aspects of human life. It involves deep thinking, analyzing different perspectives, and exploring the meaning and complexities of these topics.
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I honestly just got tired of having what I felt were meaningless conflicts and battles over theological and
philosophical issues when what the world needs is for us to live our most extraordinary lives.
There is more to the debate than we can cover here, including
fundamental philosophical issues about whose objectives and values should count in making schooling decisions.
My hope is that the patient reader will be rewarded by Hartshorne's insightful treatment of
philosophical issues surrounding abortion, a treatment which rests four square on his attempt to defend a moderate view of temporal relations.
These longstanding
philosophical issues underlie an urgent and practical problem: What, if anything, can be done to save the hundreds of Catholic schools currently on the brink of closure — as well as the thousands more fast approaching the edge?
Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when examining
important philosophical issues of the modern world...
While most Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, Cobb and a few others felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that would not
avoid philosophical issues.
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.
«Some
Main Philosophical Issues Involved in Contemporary Scientific Thought,» in John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, eds., Mind in Nature.
In Danny's hospital room,
weighty philosophical issues yield to more practical concerns, like getting a tray on rollers properly positioned over his lap.
In 1994, I sent Hartshorne a draft of my Introduction to Philosophy text, Change and the Unsurpassable, which evaluates
philosophical issues from a process position but also contains material on prepatriarchal worldviews and uses gender - neutral expressions.
Without intending to draw, in a definitely un-Hartshornian manner, a sharp distinction between philosophy and theology, we may first develop our estimate of the
more philosophical issues in Hartshorne and then proceed to the theological ones.
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.
Professors James and Alice Boyack of Philander Smith
made philosophical issues concrete, and I wrote several papers on the problem of evil and suffering.
Since this label refers to a style of approach to
philosophical issues rather than to underlying convictions about the way things are, analytic philosophers do not all adopt the same position with regard to the issue I have in view.
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further philosophical issue, also of deep concern to many, appertains to the rationality of religious commitment within the context of modern democratic political culture.
Like Wittgenstein, Whitehead is not, of course, opposed to the concept of a «philosophical illness;» the difference lies in the seriousness with which the two thinkers approach
traditional philosophical issues: Wittgenstein seems to see no legitimacy in questions that science or common sense can not answer, while Whitehead struggles with classical metaphysical problems, stepping beyond the strict boundaries of the scientific method.
And, in inviting him to respond to this query, I am not unaware, as Hartshorne himself has noted, that we must not take it for granted that the house of logic is in simple and good order, another indication, in my view, of the impossibility of disconnecting purportedly formal instruments from
basic philosophical issues.
As congressional debate bogged down over an array of spending and
philosophical issues late last week, it appeared that the House and the Senate would not vote on their education spending bills until this week.
Hypatia serves as a resource for the wider women's studies community, for philosophers generally, and for all those interested in
philosophical issues raised by feminism.