Sentences with phrase «philosophical perspective of»

Perhaps the first pragmatist, and a founder of functional psychology, he developed the philosophical perspective of radical empiricism.

We are attempting to explain the primitive Christian experience of Jesus in the language of a philosophical perspective of God and man to suggest how that perspective might deal with the inter-relation of humanity and divinity in the person of Jesus, who is called the Christ.

Some of us «old timers» surely have an obligation to make an appraisal of new trends in mission in terms of our mission experience and the theological and philosophical perspective of the mission board that first sent us to the field.

I believe it stands on its own feet and can be judged with respect to its accuracy independently of the philosophical perspective of the author.

As Robert Mellert notes, our present historical criticisms are very similar to efforts by the Christians of the first centuries: «We are attempting to explain the primitive Christian experience of Jesus in the language of a philosophical perspective of God and man to suggest how that perspective might deal with the inter-relation of humanity and divinity in the person of Jesus, who is called the Christ (WPT 79f).

Not exact matches

The amazing diversity of moral, religious and philosophical perspectives in contemporary society makes impossible any effort to teach only one perspective — whether secularism or historic Christianity — in all schoo1s.

In accounts of the Reform Bill, political and economic perspectives figure prominently; technological, religious, and philosophical factors offer subordinate contrasts.

She specializes in philosophy of religion and is the editor of Concepts of the Ultimate: Philosophical Perspectives on the Nature of the Divine.

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

PERSPECTIVE: At one time science and religion were two branches of the same philosophical tree and still should be.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

Furthermore, there are other visions of reality from which to learn: visions that, like Whitehead's perspective, can serve as philosophical underpinnings for a responsible environmental ethic.

I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

From this perspective, religious experience includes more than a moral or philosophical or even an aesthetic vision of the universe.

Because of all the differences in people from their perspectives of environment and the differences in abilities and talents such as artistic and philosophical perspectives, it is only natural that they would seek to worship god in different ways in different churches or at home by themselves.

Because the idea of a universal historical perspective leads to a totalizing role for philosophy, any search for a world - historical philosophical order contains the seeds of a secular state religion.

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

This question opens up problems of personal biography which can be approached from the perspectives of education, psychology, sociology, philosophical anthropology, and religion.

Although many philosophers in history have written from a process perspective, the term today is reserved for a particular school of thought centered around the works of Alfred North Whitehead, whose philosophical writings spanned the two decades of the 1920's and 1930's and the two countries of England and the United States.

The assumption by theology of some philosophical perspective is simply unavoidable, regardless of what some theologians may deceive themselves into believing; therefore the most fruitful way for Christian theology to proceed is by recognizing its relative dependence and by adopting the philosophy which will be most fruitful in making Christian faith significant, meaningful and available to contemporary men.

From a philosophical perspective, there are numerous other options, including middle knowledge, and knowledge of counterfactuals, and even the omniscient knowledge of all possible future events without knowledge of which future event will actually occur.

Much of what Peirce has to say throughout his published papers is pertinent to a philosophical perspective on the problems of creativity.

The view of accommodationism is one that is only theological, taking theology in the strictest sense, namely, without the incorporation of philosophical and historical perspectives.

Beverly Harrison has applied this philosophical perspective to a feminist Interpretation of creativity, freedom, and relationality.

A comparison with the earlier philosophical debate on immortality offers an insight into the importance of the change in perspective.

John Locke, they said, was the key figure in setting forth a «radical philosophical defense of individual rights» of a seventeenth - century political perspective «that owed little to either classical or biblical sources.»

2) You can maintain your position from a faith perspective, and say this, but then I'd have to seriously question [a] your historical integrity (for example, the historical position of Revelations as canon, although more of a debate than the other texts, was still NOWHERE NEAR contestable enough for you to draw this sort of conclusion) and [b] your philosophical integrity (for example, if you dismiss Revelations because it doesn't support your position, i'm going to ask: by what authority do you think you have the right to discern this?

What this essay claims to offer is not philosophical speculation but an extension of our biological perspective — no more, and no less.

It is significant that writers as divergent in philosophical perspectives as Croce and Russell seem to agree that Bergson's intuitions prompt the charge of irrationalism.

The most fundamental task of the philosophical theologian is to demonstrate how a theistic world - view can illuminate the totality of our experience better than a nontheistic perspective.

A theology which seeks to explain the Incarnation in terms of «from below to above» merits from Pope John Paul the withering criticism «inadequate, reductive and superficial» (Fides et Ratio 97) because it tries to view the Incarnation from a human philosophical perspective without taking into consideration the aspect of divine mystery which is essentially «from above».

However both Whitehead and Derrida's critique of modernism present a noble and exciting possibility for decentering the domination and absolutist claims of modernity; opening the way for other philosophical perspectives without necessarily falling prey to a radical relativism.

Cosmology as such consists in a naive realistic ontology which is a contradiction in terms, in that, naive realism is a non-philosophical, mythopoeic posture and can not be assimilated into the philosophical perspective which of necessity is a self - conscious activity.

The problem with Aristotle from Luther's perspective was not that he believed in the eternity of the world and the mortality of the human soul (which he did), but that his philosophical vocabulary was ill - suited for theological use.

But when he asserts that one style of art, or one philosophical or experiential perspective, is aesthetically «better» or «richer» than another, it seems to me that he is on very questionable ground, particularly in view of his own aesthetically oriented and «anarchistic» approach.

And in the setting of this perspective, students and devotees of process philosophy alike have viewed this philosophical approach as positioned squarely on the Continental side of the divide.

Dreyfus's own critique is made from the standpoint of phenomenology, but his philosophical perspective and that of a number of other critics of artificial intelligence is similar in some ways to Hall's.

By the end of the 18th century the various difficulties in the assimilation of naive realism into the philosophical perspective had become apparent.

The dominance of Western philosophical views in scholarly circles often reduces Third World perspectives to an inferior status.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

«Just Love» surveys sexual ethics from various philosophical, historical, religious and anthropological perspectives before turning to its central topic: the ethics of love and sex.

Both were profoundly concerned with the meaning of modern Italian society in the broadest historical and philosophical perspective.

But with the knowledge presently available to theology and with the vast change of philosophical perspective that has occurred since the first centuries of Christendom, tentative new formulations of the original Christian experience that are not always literally contained within the traditional normative statements are now being proposed by theologians from a variety of philosophical perspectives.

My particular perspective within liberal Christianity has been shaped by years of living with the philosophical vision of Alfred North Whitehead.

But Comté is special because they apply their philosophical perspectives every single moment of every day.

Organic agriculture is thus committed to the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity within agricultural systems, both from a philosophical perspective and from the practical viewpoint of maintaining productivity.

Foreign secretary William Hague has offered a philosophical perspective on the week's events from Istanbul, as fears of a fuel strike fade.

He agrees with others that the technology will shape the evolution of Homo sapiens, and his perspective is unmistakably philosophical.

From his perspective, the global corpus of literature has far more to say about ethics than just the philosophical canon alone, and advanced AIs can tap into that wisdom.

José has fought very hard and succeeded in making something that has a point of view, and a political and philosophical perspective.»