A founding
philosophical principle of CCDA is reconciliation, which is defined in two ways.
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.»
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».
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
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.
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.
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.
But they do believe that the basic
principles and structure
of his system provide the basis for solving both the
philosophical and the theological problems
of our own time.
The notion
of Augustine and Thomas, in their theology
of the Trinity, that persons are constituted in relation
of opposition or mutual immanence is made a general
principle in the Whiteheadian
philosophical scheme.
in conjunction with his description
of how he arrived at the
philosophical realization that all actual entities exist as an interlocked community (
principle of relativity).
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 process
of repeated ascent and descent is required in order to arrive at a truly organic conception
of nature, in which the
principle of universal connectedness is seen to arise from within each
of the particular orders
of experience, rather than be imposed from above by
philosophical fiat.
The
philosophical study
of any human activity aims at exhibiting the «logic»
of that activity, that is, at uncovering the
principles relevant to its understanding and criticism.
Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion
of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative
principle guiding
philosophical reflection than as a
philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.
In
philosophical theology, where the primary facts are the hard - core common - sense facts, the facts are already «known» unconsciously, in the sense
of being presupposed in practice; but rational reflection can lead to the conscious knowledge
of such
principles.
Ideal first with the need for speculation to fulfill the twin ideals
of adequacy and coherence with regard to
philosophical theology, or «natural» theology, meaning theology insofar as it deals with data that are in
principle universally accessible.
For
philosophical vitalism evil is the static, anything that stands in the way
of vital evolution, while good is vital movement, which it is assumed will ultimately be triumphant, as if there were still another
principle of good underlying the whole process.
By systematic we mean not that some traditional set
of problems has been covered, but rather that the
philosophical product is the deliberate and methodic interrelation
of its constituents, viz., its concepts, categories, and
principles in a structure...
I can not discuss them all here, but the following references are a start: Theodore de Laguna, review
of The
Principles of Natural Knowledge in
Philosophical Review, 29 (1920), 269; Bertrand Russell, review
of Science and the Modern World in Nation and Athenaeum, 39 (May 29,1926), 207; Charles Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy (New York: Paragon House, 1984), 5,32,279 - 280; and even though Stephen Pepper believes both Whitehead and Bergson are mistaken in their views, he believes they are extremely similar: see Pepper, Concept and Quality: A World Hypothesis (LaSalle: Open Court, 1967), 340 - 341.
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.
Having stated his thesis that one must begin with Whitehead's diagnosis, Rorty quotes him as follows: «The difficulties
of all schools
of modern philosophy lie in the fact that having accepted the subjectivist
principle, they continue to use
philosophical categories derived from another point
of view» (PR 253; WEP 134; italics mine).
Although his
philosophical resource is primarily Husserl, Farley's understanding
of the
principle of positivity can easily be seen as Whiteheadian.
When one carefully distinguishes between the subjectivist bias and the subjectivist
principle, it becomes apparent that the subjectivist bias is, in and
of itself, in no way the cause
of modem
philosophical difficulties.
When I come to analyse this doctrine, I found in it nothing but the
philosophical principle underlying the popular doctrine
of self - negation.
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.
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).
This prayer, in Perls» mind, may have been only a teaching device and not a statement
of a basic
philosophical principle.
For Wilson these roots and some
of this knowledge are themselves guided by what he believes are the universal and eternal
principles of Darwinian evolutionary theory Wilson never acknowledges that, by relying on that theory and by generalizing it, he subscribes to
principles that transcend particular histories just as surely as do the ideas
of the theological and
philosophical transcendentalists.
The general
philosophical principle is that every new occasion takes account
of every occasion in its past.
And this monotheism is not, as in Greece, the result
of philosophical reflection, which seeks a single origin and
principle, in the interest
of an intellectual understanding
of the world; it is the belief in the one God which brings the concept
of God itself to clear expression.
The fact that a research university necessarily sets aside any subject's claim to rest on revealed
principles that can not themselves be the subject
of critical inquiry poses no serious problem because, Schleiermacher argues on
philosophical grounds, religions like Christianity do not rest on
principles in the first place, revealed or otherwise.
For on his own
principles if there were not some kind
of awareness
of causal efficacy, there would be no warrant for making statements about it: «Nothing is to be received into the
philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 166/253).
This
principle forms the fundamental presupposition
of Whitehead's «onto - cosmology», 25 and he himself sees in it the essential difference between his metaphysics and the ontologies and cosmologies
of the
philosophical tradition (cf. PR 27).
«Spirit» occupies the central position in Hegel's thought; it is that «ultimate
principle» which, as Whitehead suggests (PR 10), is present in any
philosophical system and is actual by virtue
of its accidents.
There is a
principle, one too often ignored in its
philosophical value, which underlies the research
of all the sciences, and the interpretation, especially the mathematical interpretation,
of all knowledge gathered by the «exact sciences».
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.»
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».
«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.»
(2) Freedom
of choice should be allowed in those matters on which a plurality
of views are held — views based on well - articulated
principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral,
philosophical and religious beliefs.
Accordingly, on the basis
of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the
philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist
principle entails that the notion
of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).
Catholic Studies programs should be built around an «incarnational
principle» embodied in a committed community
of faculty, who form a communion
of persons (one
of John Paul II's favorite
philosophical phrases) in service to the intellectual and spiritual formation
of their students.
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.