Sentences with phrase «philosophical issues with»

I have both practical and philosophical issues with this line of thinking.

I do have philosophical issues with the breeding of this dog, however, since all of them have to be delivered artificially (by Cesarean section).

Aside from one's philosophical issues with Google Books and copyright, the fact that customer service is unresponsive, that there is no place to enter book descriptions or metadata (or ability to fix what they screen scrape from other sources), and that they discount without permission, has finally made me pull the plug on the whole channel, the only channel I've every had to do that with.

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.

Not exact matches

Michael and I are extremely different people, despite coming from similar philosophical backgrounds, but I have identified with him the most when listening to him talk about his fitness, eating and body issues.

Recognition of the authenticity of one another's faith does not mean indifference with respect to the philosophical issues on which we disagree or the diverse actions resulting from those disagreements.

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.

While the great majority of Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, a few of us felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that could not avoid philosophical issues.

«Whereas the issue with the mosque in New York was more philosophical, more about sensitivities, a lot of these mosques had the legal right to build,» he said.

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.

Third, the lecture will deal with a few of the methodological issues in the advocacy scholarship of liberation theologies and how this scholarship corresponds with the turn to dialectics and praxis in contemporary philosophical reflections on science.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

A study of Griffin's reflections on this topic thus brings the reader face to face with conceptual issues related to this concept that would be worthy of careful philosophical attention even had they no immediate bearing on the traditional problem of evil.

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.

Closely connected with the foregoing issues is another set of philosophical problems.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

On Tuesday Mr Scoffield said the case, a simple transaction, raised an issue of principle since those with deeply - held religious or philosophical convictions could be compelled to act against their beliefs.

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

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.

Some might argue that it is not the place of pro-life movements to engage with such philosophical, even, theological issues, and to do so risks alienating pro-life materialists, even that it might appear to denigrate the human body.

They will lead the way with clear, positive, and rationally persuasive arguments making the philosophical case for a principled conservative polity ¯ and social issues will play a central role.

His five - point agenda for post-fundamentalist evangelicalism included: (1) clarification of the philosophical implications of biblical theism, (2) Christian engagement with the pressing social issues of the day as well as concern for individual salvation, (3) refusal to divide over secondary matters such as the details of biblical prophecy, (4) openness to the possibility of a biblically faithful ecumenicity, and (5) the development of a truly biblical theology that took into consideration the whole sweep of salvation history.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

While most books and programs dealing with child sleep issues take philosophical stands (based largely around the issue of «crying it out»), I believe that your child's sleep is more important than my personal views on this subject.

My issue with the arguments about «climate change» are philosophical one about what we can know in relation to truth.

On Wednesday, Cuomo acknowledged that 421a wasn't yet resolved, saying it was an «ideological [and] philosophical» issue that was holding up a final budget resolution, along with the Raise the Age bill.

But there is no indication that this will be the case, and the indication that the changes will further encourage pupils to personally grapple with important ethical and philosophical issues can only be welcomed.»

Passing campaign finance reforms that include public financing of campaigns may be impossible with Skelos in charge, Cuomo suggested, noting that between himself and Skelos «there's a clear philosophical difference on a number of issues.»

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B — a journal from the Royal Society whose motto is «Take nobody's word for it» — wades into these treacherous waters this week with a special issue, «The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow's World.»

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.

As easygoing as a country ballad (and its laconic star), director John Carroll Lynch's film is short on dramatic incident but long on mood and heavy with philosophical substance, as Stanton's Lucky grapples with issues of realism, happiness and what awaits us after we shuffle off our mortal coil.

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.

When you are doing «900 shows a year,» an issue Stuart Polansky addresses in a book with that same title, questions of why and other philosophical questions get very short shrift for very practical reasons, most of which relate to school system structure and community value systems.

The BioShock games still command our attention with their weighty themes and ambition to make us think about social issues and philosophical concepts.

EN: With modern and contemporary works of art, this is a major ethical and philosophical issue.

Initiating the education program last month, the Hammer Museum presented Conversations: Desert X Preview with Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and Executive Director Elizabeta Betinski in conversation with participating artists Will Boone, Glenn Kaino, Sherin Guirguis and Tavares Strachan about their work and the cultural and philosophical issues that make the Coachella Valley a vibrant and exciting backdrop for the desert - wide exhibition.

Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley is a sculptor whose work with the human form transcends literal representation, broaches weighty philosophical issues, and questions perception and the nature of being.

Her polyphonic and speculative ensembles, which often comprise a large number of individual components, combine an exploration of questions in art with philosophical inquiries into issues such as the essence of time, place, and language and their interrelations.

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.

Deeply influenced by the discourse and practices engaged with environmental issues, Brooks challenges scientific, philosophical, and consumerist dualities that traditionally separate humans and nonhumans.

We also have regular meetings with our curatorial department to discuss research and treatment projects, philosophical issues, and to set priorities for upcoming exhibitions.

The Tansaekhwa artists» meditative and monastic outlook on artistic creation reflects tenets of Taoism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism, as they contemplate issues surrounding civic disorder and political turbulence through a deliberate engagement with philosophical and spiritual ideologies.

«Image World» glides over such distinctions, as if the organizers of the exhibition wanted to avoid dealing substantively with the fundamental political and philosophical issues raised by the works they chose to display, and instead preferred to dwell in superficialities.

This is an entirely novel issue under negotiations, and one with important implications for the philosophical, legal, and ethical aspects of international cooperation.

We wrote a book with the intention of laying out the broad philosophical outlines for a different kind of politics that can address the things that we have to do and address not only global warming but the other large issues that we have to deal with in this new century.

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.

I like reading Ron Friedmann's posts about KM because he almost always gets to the philosophical issues a firm has to deal with in order to start making the real operational changes — strategic, infrastructural, technological, etc. — required to wire - up.

You will learn to work with perennial relational issues in the context of an overarching philosophical framework.