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.
Nonetheless, from the starting point of these principles (received by faith) further conclusions can be drawn, and this is done
by philosophical reasoning.
But it is the business of philosophy to ascertain that which is purely necessary and universal, and any limitation placed
upon philosophical reason ultimately appears to be arbitrary.
Beyond philosophical reasons, many children at this age have not yet been introduced to eggs, and a special first birthday party is probably not the time to do it.
It is surprising, however, how often they still feel compelled to repeat much of what has been said originally
for philosophical reasons.
Delpy's role as Celine takes on an air of
philosophical reasoning as she asks in her charming French accent, «Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more,» whereas in The Royal Tenenbaums, Etheline adheres moreso to practicality as she tells her young kid, «Write yourself a check,» when he asks for money.
And there are
also philosophical reasons that show why living teachers can't be replaced by hardware, and why a «no nonsense» program of discipline will never sustain interest or produce mature human beings.
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.
They rightly underscore, however, the role that a relatively small group of Dutch Calvinists have played in modern evangelicalism, providing it with «a heritage of serious academic work and
experienced philosophical reasoning,» as well as producing some of the major publishers (Baker, Eerdmans, Zondervan) who enabled evangelicals to communicate after they had been shut out of the New York publishing world in the 1920s.
I am not among those who, for
anterior philosophical reasons, will conclude from such alleged «errors» that the Bible can not be taken seriously as having any warranted religious authority.
Kobrin says that the scientific evidence confirming that benefit may be elusive for
philosophical reasons at the core of conventional and alternative medicine, which both offer an «understanding of the human through [a different] paradigm.»
The Witness is not a game, it is the author's
philosophical reasoning about the cognitive process, the scientific path and the relation of science and faith.
Written in a multiplicity of voices, the text oscillates
between philosophical reasoning and narrative forms of writing, including micro-narratives, fables, parables, and inter alia by Carroll, Ho...
The philosophical doctrines traditionally accepted by the church on the basis of the authority
of philosophical reason have, in fact, been in serious tension with the ways of thinking about God that grew out of the Old and New Testaments and the liturgy of the church.
But VW's effort at Pikes Peak hill climb is also for a slightly
more philosophical reason, as this will not be the first time VW has entered the event with a factory - supported race car.
But it is only through the interchange with Buddhists that Whiteheadians have realized the profound existential implications of what they have conceptually affirmed for more
purely philosophical reasons.
The principles of the science of theology are given in the articles of the Creed and in Sacred Scripture and they are known by us through faith, not
through philosophical reasoning: you can not, by unaided reason, conclude that the doctrine of the Trinity is true, for example.
If there is one gripe with Ziegler's account, it's that she doesn't register continued moral and
philosophical reasoning as a significant factor in the conservative embrace of the pro-life position.
-LSB--RSB- Now, while the principles of the science of theology are not known
by philosophical reasoning (they come by revelation), the further conclusions that flow from these principles are derived with its help.
If tech speaks up when it comes to DACA it will be for
philosophical reasons, said Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn, who is an immigrant from Guatemala.
In many states parents can refuse to vaccinate their children for religious and
philosophical reasons.
I have written, and Whitehead sometimes writes, as though there were
no philosophical reason for affirming the consequent nature of God other than the demand of a coherent completion of the idea of God as actual entity.
Though two speak of «freedom of choice» and a few give no real theological rationale for their position, virtually all the statements of this type are concerned not with human freedom or women's rights, but with articulating solid theological and
philosophical reasons for the position they take.
This, however, has been pronounced a false dualism by many masters of scientific and
philosophical reasoning.
In the Introduction to the Second Edition of Principia Mathematica published in 1925, Whitehead and Russell, in trying to repair the theory of types by the axiom of reducibility, mentioned a new suggestion proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein for
philosophical reasons (PM xiv).
He shows us what the scientific philosophers»
philosophical reasons were for commenting on the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Whitehead's
philosophical reasons for affirming God and his attempt to show that God is not an exception to all the categories appear to me philosophically responsible and even necessary.
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.
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.
In moral theology, the derivation of conclusions from revealed principles with the help of
philosophical reasoning is very common indeed.
A striking example of the pervasiveness of pacifism in the early church is the fact that Tertullian and Origen — church fathers who stood at opposite poles regarding the relation of faith to
philosophical reasoning — each wrote a tract supporting Christians» refusal to join the military.