Sentences with phrase «philosophical reasoning as»

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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.

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

But, of course, there have been purely philosophical reasons for making this metaphysical change as well.

And attempts to restore religious freedom to its proper philosophical place, as something like the sine qua non of freedom itself, presuppose just the view of human nature and reason that our post-Christian liberalism rejects from the outset.

If the data of philosophical reason are natural, that is, if they are given for human experience independently of historical conditions, then natural theology as commonly understood becomes a major possibility.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

Other elements are, of course, important as well: engagement with Scripture, philosophical reasoning, and reflection on empirical evidence.

Participants in this retreat will take up philosophical, theological, and literary texts from antiquity and the classical Christian and Jewish traditions to explore the nature of love and friendship as well as their relation to transcendence, faith, beauty, marriage, and reason.

Thus instead of trying to construct a philosophical system which accords with the rule of reason, as Hegel had done, Nietzsche begins by turning reason against itself, uncovering in the process its «irrational» origins in nature («On the Genealogy & Morals,» BWN; Sections 2 and 16; WP, Sections 480 and 481).

Now for Hegel, as for most of the philosophers of the tradition, the end of philosophical speculation is the attainment of truth (usually taken in some absolutist sense), and we reach such truth through the proper employment of reason.

His analysis calls for reintegration of the history of science with social, economic and political history just as his philosophical proposals call for integration with current reasons for making science, technology and medicine more accessible and accountable.

He also says that, for any knowledge of God beyond «the bare outline of the dimensions of his being,» we must look to empirical science and theology.6 This, says he, is the reason why purely philosophical theology can say nothing about such pivotal religious doctrines as sin, grace, and forgiveness.

The author evolves a hermeneutics of Revelation by entering into a dialectic between the concept of biblical revelation as seen in various types of biblical discourse, and the concept of philosophical reason that engages classical and contemporary philosophy in their own categories.

All too often mystical ideas have been confused with the experiences and then integrated into philosophical systems as if they were the product of reasoning.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

If something like this may legitimately be asserted on the basis of a philosophical world - view such as process - thought has developed, we have reason to be grateful.

That's another reason religious and philosophical thought are just as persistent in history, as science.

Rigorously undertaken, such a procedure entails an understanding of the capacities and limitations of philosophical reasoning and the proper use of literary interpretation as it applies to Scripture.

Yet we reiterate that throughout the earlier period in question — from 1935, say, to 1960 — a few theologians such as Canon Raven in England had continued along the lines laid down in the twenties, while Professor Hartshorne and some others in the United States (notably E. E. Harris, in such books as Revelation Through Reason) were carrying on the work on the strictly philosophical side.

In the context of a theological controversy regarding the Incarnation, and by reasoning according to the philosophical heritage of Plato and Aristotle, Boëthius concluded that there are three essential features of the person as such: substantiality, individuality and rationality.

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

Logos, before it was reduced merely to a «word» conveying facts, or to «reason» in the philosophical sense, or to «principle,» or to the ground of «logic,» referred to being as that power of gathering that brings all things forth into the light of being, holding them together in the unity of the world while also allowing them to shine forth in their separateness.

One reason for this neglect, as we have seen, may be found in Whitehead's uncritical acceptance of the dominant philosophical opinion that efficient causation must mean transeunt causation.

As is clear even in outline, Camus's plan was to face the existential abyss and pursue what might still be won for human life even where reason (which is to say, productions like the large continental philosophical constructs of French and German rationalism) and God were no longer available.

«Unsecularizing the academy» and getting the scholarly elite to accept the philosophical viability of religious reason as an equal player in intellectual argument is not the first step towards God's reentrance into the consciousness of modern society.

For philosophical and practical reasons they do not want to be seen as a political community.

Given the physical activity required for Santa's journey around of the world I am sure he burns most of the calories off during his yearly trip but assuming there are about 91.8 million stops taking in account that some people in the world do not believe for philosophical or religious reasons as well as a Read More

Without the philosophical message, what's left of Pulse is much like the humans in the movie after their essence is extracted — it's a lifeless shell of its former self that loses coherence and reason as time goes on before finally disintegrating into nothingness.

This lesson introduces the popular philosophical reasons why people believe in God such as the cosmological argument

And when unbending philosophical opposition masquerades as commentary on policy, the standing of practical critics is undercut because advocates have reason to distrust the motives of those writing in opposition.

He cited «philosophical differences» as the reason for his departure and told Automotive News, «it's not personal, it's just business.»

Part of the thinking, such as it is, behind the comparisons is political and philosophical — some folks are opposed to the FHA for the very simple reason that it's a government mortgage insurance program which competes with mortgage insurance companies in the private sector.

However, as one reviews the philosophical and practical reasons against currency hedging, it is our conclusion the costs outweigh the benefits.

He sets the clear contours of reason against the mysterious arabesques of emotion and poses as a questioner in the on - going cultural - philosophical discourse, which began with the Classic versus Romantic Movement.

And they are categorically anti-human, in the sense that they do not necessarily privilege human experience in their reasoning and in their deeper philosophical ideas (such as they are).

This is an epistemological point that I am ill equipped to conclude (my IQ falls below the threshold required for reasoned philosophical debate on this issue), except to say that I'm completely mystified as to why, given we're inside the bounds of natural variation (according to the Vostok and Greenland cores — correct me if I'm wrong), there is any need for a debate at all.

Legal scholars posit appropriate legal ethics, either as a matter of formal legal reasoning or from varying philosophical perspectives.