Sentences with phrase «philosophical outlook of»

Part of the long - range philosophical outlook of Morrison and company was revealed when, once war came, they almost immediately began talking about its aftermath.

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It is to be hoped that as the centre develops in its work, so it will broaden its outlook so that the natural sciences, the single most influential strand of philosophical thought in modern times, is not left out of the conversation.

This drift away from the Rock of the Church is given impetus by the fact that the prevailing philosophical and social outlook of the churchman isdistasteful to the young.

If the latter is the case, and I think it is, then it may be possible to reconcile many of the differences between the two thinkers with some creative interpretation, such that, whether they realized it themselves, Whitehead and Bergson were profoundly similar in basic philosophical outlook.

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

In 1922, some nine years after Einstein had published his first paper on General Relativity, Whitehead was compelled by the differences he had with Einstein's view to come forward with his own work, The Principle of Relativity, in which he formulated a theory of gravitation more in keeping with his own philosophical outlook.

The contrast, which out of concern for the truth I have found it necessary to draw between the courageous and joyful primitive Christian hope of the resurrection of the dead and the serene philosophic expectation of the survival of the immortal soul, has displeased not only many sincere Christians in all Communions and of all theological outlooks, but also those whose convictions, while not outwardly alienated from Christianity, are more strongly moulded by philosophical considerations.

But the latter two have concerns that far transcend their religious background, for whom that background seems more or less accidental to their philosophical positions, while the former three argue directly out of their Judaism, precisely the outlook that makes their thought so instructive for Novak's thesis:

Apologetics, in its attempt to defend the factual claims of the Bible through the use of reason, thus implicitly affirms the very philosophical outlook that undermines its own project, placing the truth of Christianity in the realm of rational reflection and thus into the realm of reasonable doubt and provisionality.»

But on the whole it does represent a moralistic Christian outlook, which has been a wholesome note throughout the centuries of mystical, philosophical, theological and ecclesiastical emphasis.

Many of those entering centre right politics have a very different philosophical outlook.

At the time, we only had the Bible - quoting hit man Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) as evidence of a philosophical outlook — his ultimate disavowal of «the life» at Pulp Fiction's trick non-ending seemed a fairly apt demonstration of man's (and therefore a filmmaker's) capacity to reject violence and find inner nourishment.

... In learning philosophy you have to learn to argue for or against philosophical opinions and to understand and assess philosophical visions and you have to become familiar with some of the arguments and outlooks that have been advanced on certain topics in the past.

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

In From Point, Lee's thoughtful and philosophical outlook is transformed on the canvas, with the inevitable naturalness of water seeking its own channel, into pulsating rhythms that reach out to the viewer and communicate a state of mind.

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.

It is, after all, the environmental movement which seeks a radical reorganisation of our political, economic, and philosophical outlooks.

As you say, for all the scientific authority of the RS chairs, their social science and philosophical outlook is poverty - stricken.

It is their own empty outlook they are evincing, not their commitment to a particular philosophy, or even the supremacy of the philosophical method.