Sentences with phrase «philosophical issues rather»

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Lewontin, a Marxist whose philosophical sophistication exceeds that of Sagan by several orders of magnitude, came to see the issue as essentially one of basic intellectual commitment rather than factual knowledge.

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?

His idea of a «new synthesis», proposed mainly in his book Catholicism: A New Synthesis and developed in his many theological and philosophical essays, was an attempt to grapple precisely with the issues we have spoken of: the post-Cartesian «turn to the subject» (that is: the loss of faith in the objectivity of knowledge and the subsequent exclusive concern of philosophy with the self and the subjective idea as the norm of «truth») and the philosophy of evolution with its implications for a dynamic rather than a static universe.

Nonetheless, the mindset that led the original ICEL «translators» to interpret «Mysterium Fidei» ■ in terms of a theological narrative to be recited, rather than as an acclamation addressed to a living person, does touch on some deeper theological and philosophical issues which have wider relevance and more far reaching implications.

A survey of the attempts following this way reveals an appreciable difficulty in being able to disentangle the philosophical from the scientific issues and to move further than merely formulating the contemporary scientific developments in rather general, as opposed to specifically scientific, terminology.

Rather than gizmos or hypothetical futures, Almereyda is interested in philosophical issues concerning memory and identity.

This peeve doesn't involve copyright issues or philosophical concerns (of course I don't want pirated books to abound on the Net, nor do I want paper books to disappear) but, rather, readability.

But rather than veering toward the political, the issues Cai raises — from the origins of the universe to the possible existence of extraterrestrials — are inherently philosophical.

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.

He teaches his classes in a way that focuses on applying the law to difficult problems, rather than on normative, philosophical issues.»