Sentences with phrase «philosophical principle»

I guess it depends whether you consider this to be a single philosophical principle.

Isn't the philosophical principle that one posits something is so, makes a prediction of what will happen if it is so, and rejects it if that doesn't happen?

By applying a 500 - year - old philosophical principle, a Cornell University researcher has shown that the Great Silence is not unexpected — we just need to give it more time.

But in each case, these injunctions and objectives are deduced not from philosophical principle, but from an understanding of the distinctive character of politics as a form of order and authority, contending with a world in which conflict is a fact of life.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds — not because of some philosophical principle — that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

A founding philosophical principle of CCDA is reconciliation, which is defined in two ways.

A goodness that treats everyone the same is a fine philosophical principle — it is, in fact, Plato's deity, the supreme Good shining above us all like the sun, equally available to everyone with eyes to see.

It is a piece of folk wisdom, elevated to philosophical principle by Santayana, that one must understand history in order not to repeat its mistakes.

But what is useful as a methodological principle for the natural sciences is a foregone banality as a philosophical principle; and as a theological principle it is a contradiction.

«In the great formative period of theistic philosophy, which ended with the rise of Mahometanism, after a continuance coeval with civilization, three strains of thought emerge which, amid many variations in detail, respectively fashion God in the image of an imperial ruler, God in the image of a personification of moral energy, God in the image of an ultimate philosophical principle.»

Hence, in his striking phrase, «the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar», seeing him «in the image of an imperial ruler», «in the image of a personification of moral energy», or «in the image of an ultimate philosophical principle».

The general philosophical principle is that every new occasion takes account of every occasion in its past.

This prayer, in Perls» mind, may have been only a teaching device and not a statement of a basic philosophical principle.

In Section I Whitehead rejects the notion that God is an imperial ruler (a divine Caesar), the personification of moral energy (a Hebrew prophet) or an ultimate philosophical principle (the unmoved mover of Aristotle).

He began with conceiving God as a philosophical principle and ended with one of the most profound conceptions of God in 20th century philosophical thought.

When I come to analyse this doctrine, I found in it nothing but the philosophical principle underlying the popular doctrine of self - negation.

His analysis of the writings of Michel Foucault, who died in 1984, shows how a secular philosophical principle has expanded in the years following to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of faith.

Indeed in [E], the history of ancient thought is overviewed and perceived as having presented God in the image of an imperial ruler (Christian theology), a personification of moral energy (Hebrew thought) and an ultimate philosophical principle (Greek thought).

The general philosophical principle is that every becoming occasion objectifies every past occasion in some way.

An important philosophical principle was at stake: whether the immutable laws of science held human destiny in their iron clasp — whether, indeed, human destiny was fixed irrevocably in the remote stellar constellations and the laws of physics.

In harmony with his general philosophical principles Humboldt regards language, the single word as well as connected speech, as an act, «a truly creative act of the mind.»

These philosophical principles obviously collide with the worldview of low - intensity - conflict planners for whom nonalignment is a contradiction in terms, and a mixed economy is an attack against corporate capitalism.

To my way of thinking, the Whig tradition — and particularly the Catholic Whig tradition — offers the world's best statement of philosophical principles and practical guidelines concerning how and why free citizens should shape new societies worthy of their human rights and ordered liberties.

All that he wished to learn he found in the Waldorf school curriculum, created out of Steiner's philosophical principles.

Dr. Lu also stated his support of the philosophical principles of the MFCI:»... no woman should be subjected to unnecessary interventions and... every woman should be cared for in a system that respects her autonomy and upholds the principles of Empowerment, Do No Harm, and Responsibility and be given the choice of Mother - Friendly maternity services that you all champion... I applaud the leadership you've shown in promoting health equity over the years and want to commend you for confronting the theme of your Forum (Health Disparities in Maternity Care) this year.»

This two - page document outlines national, state, and hospital quality improvement guidelines as well as legislative initiatives that reflect the philosophical principles and ten steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative.

This means in real life often the revision of the law stems from public outcry for past malpractices, rather than a deeper appreciation of the philosophical principles behind the law or recognition of the possible benefits from the reform.

But of course you are right that the book that set out a concrete plan for a «stakeholder grant», rather than just defending the philosophical principles behind it, was co-authored by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott.

The whole debate about Leveson — from the philosophical principles right down to the minutiae of how each amendment is drafted — is not something that the average voter will get worked up about.

The study examined two contrasting philosophical principles that relate to ethics.

The work I cultivate and pursue in the world is simply an integration of philosophical principles, spiritual insights, and a progressive return to natural living.

In India, Buddhist monasteries gradually developed into centres of learning where philosophical principles were developed and debated; this tradition is currently preserved by monastic universities of Vajrayana Buddhists, as well as religious schools and universities founded by religious orders across the Buddhist world.

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation is devoted to preserving and promoting the achievements of both Josef and Anni Albers, and the aesthetic and philosophical principles by which they lived.

Grounded in broad philosophical principles, Takamatsu sought to take art outside of the confines of conventional and institutional settings, collapsing the boundaries between art and life.

In 1972 he turned to words and their immateriality to explore the relationship between abstract categories of thought, such as general and particular, finite and infinite, culture and nature, the passing of historical time and the hypothesis of the eternity of universal physical laws, the routine of experience and the abstraction of philosophical principles.

For Hirai, such a proposal goes against the philosophical principles of ethereum and, in a blog post, strongly made his point that he «is not going to move a finger for a protocol change affecting particular accounts».

This course presents various theories of psychotherapy and their respective philosophical principles and assumptions.

In this training the therapy process and use of treatment modalities of the Oaklander Approach will be experienced through the understanding of the psychological and philosophical principles of Gestalt Therapy both past and present.

Not exact matches

It's very philosophical and it's very abstract and it talks about the principle that the manufacturing process should be humane.

As MacIntyre puts it in the Phi Sigma Tau Lectures (published in 1990 as First Principles, Final Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues):

As Owen argues, the ascendant form of philosophical liberalism, with its tenuous claims to be a space without any religious commitments, is «not well equipped to confront a world of resurgent religion, particularly religion that is uneasy with or rejects liberal democratic principles.»

The claim is not saved in this way, for the claim to have such an intuition is not the alleged intuition itself, and only that claim is what in fact and in principle enters the realm of philosophical theory and argument.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

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.

Furthermore, besides being aware that part of our common sense is endowed with the fancy philosophical name of «principle of economy» (which doesn't really matter), it is important that we are aware of the principles of reasoning with which we operate so we can ensure our own consistency (which does matter).

Both broad streams of traditionalist responses to the contemporary climate of oppression — those who say our troubles are an extension of liberal principles and those who say they are a betrayal of those principles — tend to jump too quickly from theory to practice, and so to treat the lived experience of our society as a kind of working out of philosophical premises.

Only, I believe, if their pluralism is one of convenience rather than principle — that is, if it is a device of political expedience instead of a truly philosophical conviction.

Nonetheless there can be no doubt that he was a truly original thinker with a penetrating intellect and an intense grasp of philosophical and theological principles, able to project their implications across multiple aspects of truth and life.

What is important in principle is not the details of this psychological reconstruction but the manner in which the poetry of Song of Songs enables the Rav to make personal and palpable what otherwise might have been an abstract philosophical disquisition.

In spite of the seeming variety of doctrines, one basic principle was accepted by almost all philosophical theists.