The underlying
philosophical position of traditional theology and its difference from the presuppositions of process thought can perhaps best be illustrated when we analyze the meaning of «perfect» and see its application to the Christian idea of God.
«My politics was of the more communitarian sort, and it was based on a sort of
philosophical position in relation to the world rather than, even though I'd sort of toyed with Marxism, as everyone did at the time.
It's about pushing a broader
philosophical position on how mothers should be, and it's one I find regressive, insensitive and more than a little bit cultish.
You adamantly refuse to recognize the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a
foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death
The author's object is to show that Hartshorne overestimates the argumentative power of his rationalistic principles in the process of eliminating
other philosophical positions, and that genuine empirical criteria are inevitable if metaphysics is going to be something more than pure speculation.
Whitehead came to his
mature philosophical position in Process and Reality after many years of wrestling with problems in the foundations of logic and mathematics.
«The decision represents an important recognition that a lack of religious belief is in itself a thoughtful and seriously -
held philosophical position.»
I reassured myself that this was the
true philosophical position — an attempt to understand my two friends as they understood themselves.
It seems to me, then, that the rule of the golden mean in Hartshorne's interpretation is no longer a rule, and that, if applied, his choices between
various philosophical positions are made on some other basis.
The inconsistency of his position results from his maintaining two mutually
incompatible philosophical positions: a godless Cartesianism that portrays the physical universe without quality and the Greek notion that value is grounded in physis.
Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the
contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.
However, being made in the image of God, the theist does not have to «take a leap of faith» or borrow from the
athests philosophical position to make their point.
An ethical position that condemns homosexuality as a violation of natural law must turn to a
nonbiblical philosophical position — but not to Pauline material — for its content.
In his paintings, installations, and exhibition design practices, he leaves space for unexpected juxtapositions so that his own aesthetic and
philosophical positions appear to be constantly on the move.
From the country's
philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the...
You adamantly refuse to recognise the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a
foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death
Certain methodological standards may then be connected so strictly with the content of a given system that some moderation should be exercised in using them to evaluate
other philosophical positions.
The implications of Ockham's nominalism for the moral life and for politics are not hard to tease out of this brief sketch of his
basic philosophical position.
What's refreshing about Bhansali and Umunna is that both have a clear,
coherent philosophical position, and neither shy away from stating it for fear of being put in a box.
Clinic solicitor Sheona York, who prepared the case with law student Claire Splawn, says: «The decision represents an important recognition that a lack of religious belief is in itself a thoughtful and seriously -
held philosophical position.»
Together they were elaborating
a philosophical position which boldly challenged traditional modes of thinking and came to be called «The Chicago School» of philosophy.
I have attempted to show that Hartshorne overestimates the argumentative power of his rationalistic principles in the process of eliminating other
philosophical positions, and that genuine empirical criteria are inevitable if metaphysics is going to be something more than pure speculation.
The individual characters in whose elusive speech the narrative unfolds — God, Satan, Job himself, his three interlocutors, the belated guest Elihu — tend to become stock representatives of
philosophical positions or exemplars of religious judgment.
Partly for this reason, some of his expressions of this preservation seem to suggest an element that
the philosophical position in general does not clearly imply.
And
no philosophical position is built upon sheer error.
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