Sentences with phrase «philosophical questions in»

Urgent, thoughtful, and compassionate, his works — which have been cited for their visual intensity and graphic flair — pose deeply philosophical questions in order to provoke awareness and debate.

Contains philosophical questions in response to a video stimuli that will spark intriguing discussions.

Yet beyond Whitehead's original harmless and humorous intent, there is a serious and sympathetic sense in which this designation captures precisely the spirit and intent of Russell's basic realistic and logical approach to philosophical questions in the era of G. E. Moore and the «common sense» approach to empiricism.

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In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»)

This course is basically an introduction to certain topics in metaphysics and epistemology philosophy, centered around major philosophical questions that come up again and again in Star Trek.

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The philosophical significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.

In fact, I lean towards walls being built on the sand of philosophical questions.

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (he?

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense disputIn the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense disputin the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

I asked the question to understand how (and if) it is possible to separate science from atheism in the minds of believers so we can truly discuss the concepts based on their evidentiary merits, not necessarily their philosophical implications if indeed there are any to be had.

Here lies the basis in Whitehead's thought for the relation of philosophical theology to questions of values and ethics — and, therefore, of religion to politics.

In his fair and generally sympathetic review of my book Bergson and Modern Physics, David Sipfle raised some important and significant questions which clearly show how extremely complex the questions concerning the nature of time are and how difficult it is to agree on their solutions even for those who share a basic philosophical view.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

Many, many great scientists are writing books on their activities, but books which are in fact philosophical works... Science produces metaphysical questions and, in fact, great scientists tend to solve these problems... The problem is to believe that these solutions belong to science, or to believe that a philosophical solution is given immediately by science.

Discussion of the existence of God is a philosophical question, so one has to be careful in one's arguments.

Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.

Although meant in somewhat of a different philosophical context, I find myself in agreement with Tertullian's question» What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?»

While most Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, Cobb and a few others felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that would not avoid philosophical issues.

While the great majority of Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, a few of us felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that could not avoid philosophical issues.

But even in making their philosophical contributions they were conscious that the perspective that led them to press these questions arose from their Christian convictions.

Noddings» answers to these questions have won her praise in feminist and leftwing circles; her book is hailed by Rosemary Ruether and Daniel Maguire as an «important contribution to philosophical ethics» and a work that should be «significant» in theological seminaries.

Has anyone a right to assure us, in advance of exploration of the other five, that the Anselmian (unconscious) selection of one among the six — as the faithful rendering either of the religious question or of the most fruitful philosophical one — is safely established by the fact that the choice has been repeated no less unconsciously by multitudes of theologians?

Woody poses basic religious or philosophical questions often ignored by the secularly oriented as «too deep» and skipped over by religionists engrossed in particular issues.

I don't think Owen succeeds in showing that politics needs philosophical foundation, though his hook is an excellent resource for engaging that difficult and important question.

I conclude that Craig and the process theist are at an impasse so that if a decision is to be made concerning the cognitive superiority of either the kalam or process theistic models, this must be made by appeal to issues in philosophical theology other than the question of the extension of the past.

I will go into this in some detail to show that the notions of implicate order grow naturally out of real physical and philosophical problems or questions in physics.

The question is whether liberal institutions need philosophical foundations in order to survive and flourish.

In particular, questions about the rights of animals have made their way into texts in philosophical ethicIn particular, questions about the rights of animals have made their way into texts in philosophical ethicin philosophical ethics.

The probable answer is that in these lectures he was addressing an audience of modernist liberal rationalists, and wanted to persuade them that even their own philosophical system had to concede at least some room for nonrational opinions on public questions, and therefore for religious opinion.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

-- A Philosophical Question,» written in 1952 and quoted with the permission of the author.)

The concern with the wholeness of man rules out the attempt to answer the question of what man is in terms of particular philosophical disciplines:

Today, writes Buber, «the question about man's being faces us as never before in all its grandeur and terror — no longer in philosophical attire but in the nakedness of existence.»

The form in which the answers to these questions have come is not so much that of systematic treatises as of concretizations of alternative philosophical models: the open classroom, gay marriages, tire commune, house churches.

Our philosophical heritage is being questioned in the light of a rapidly changing culture.

These questions get to the heart of a philosophical problem posed by Intelligent Design: It supposes that natural law, which is the basis for science, operates most of the time but is periodically suspended, as in the Cambrian «explosion» and the origin of life itself.

The condition requisite for healing it always this about - face, and from a purely philosophical point of view it might be a subtle question whether it is possible for one to be in despair with full consciousness of what it is about which one despairs.)

One final philosophical question: Even if we agree that benevolence is supererogatory in a way that non-malevolence is not, even if we agree that our duty to give and help is much weaker than our duty not to hurt, we can still ask if giving, helping, and bestowing can in some cases become wicked: wicked because it is debilitating to the self - reliance of the recipient; wicked because it deprives one of the capacity to give also to others; wicked because it infantilizes the recipient; wicked because it cements a bond between giver and taker that should be much more evanescent.

There is a great gap between the immediate, concrete experiences in which questions about death arise and the abstract, philosophical reflection in which relational theology is couched.

Although there are various articles and books showing what I have called systematic theological concerns, philosophical criteria are used, usually exclusively, when dealing with questions of meaning and truth, criteria which are respectable in the academy.3 Process Christology, for example, usually follows Schleiermacher, and tends as a result to be embarrassed by strong exclusivist claims.

Belief in God is about the philosophical questions that existence raises.

In the Introduction to her Love» s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990), Nussbaum relates that when she was in high school and college, she wrote papers about literary works that explored questions that she would later learn to call «philosophical» questionIn the Introduction to her Love» s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990), Nussbaum relates that when she was in high school and college, she wrote papers about literary works that explored questions that she would later learn to call «philosophical» questionin high school and college, she wrote papers about literary works that explored questions that she would later learn to call «philosophical» questions.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

It is true that these questions link up with very general and fundamental problems of a philosophical and theological doctrine of man, and with problems of natural philosophy in its widest sense.

The reply to that question will make us take a new step — the last — in what we have called the philosophical approximation of hope and of freedom in the light of hope.

Such a case amounts to the same thing as the question whether a Catholic of the kind we need to postulate in this instance, namely a man with a scientific, philosophical and theological formation, could, without guilt, come to the subjectively honest conviction that he can no longer honestly and in conscience believe and affirm the Church's authority.

But on the whole, nineteenth century philosophical theology was not particularly interested in the question of original or corporate sin; it was far more involved in various responses to Hegel, the new prominence of biblical study and its corollary «quest for the historical Jesus,» and the implications of economic and psychological developments for Christian faith.

In my view, the failure of the scientific and philosophical communities to pursue this question is one of the tragedies of intellectual history.

In an era of crisis, not only in monetary terms, this book asks the pertinent question: Can faith in education fill the philosophical and spiritual vacuum of the third millenniuIn an era of crisis, not only in monetary terms, this book asks the pertinent question: Can faith in education fill the philosophical and spiritual vacuum of the third millenniuin monetary terms, this book asks the pertinent question: Can faith in education fill the philosophical and spiritual vacuum of the third millenniuin education fill the philosophical and spiritual vacuum of the third millennium?