Sentences with phrase «philosophical sense»

We can determine however whether it makes philosophical sense or not.
Today I consider myself an agnostic in the real philosophical sense.
Holding to 6 - day creationism makes good philosophical sense if you believe, as you insist, on Scriptural inerrancy.
For example, Augustinian Christianity survived beyond its Pelagian, Manichaean, and Donatist rivals chiefly because (in its specific cultural setting) it made more philosophical sense than they did.
However, in a purely philosophical sense, my judgment of Sidney Hook goes back to my graduate school days at Harvard, when I was preparing to write Belief and Unbelief (1965).
In this more important philosophical sense, such an outlook or ethos is all - pervasive of modern life, and it underpins the conscious and the subconscious personality of the young.
«Whether transcendence is conceived of in a technical philosophical sense (as that metaphysical realm above the rational) or in an ordinary sense (as that phenomenon or experience found within the natural world, but which appears to point beyond that world) the meaning is about the same» (op.
Cheriel's latest body of work, In Search For More Than Another Shiny Object, radiates a profound philosophical sense of self - awareness and hopefulness.
In the purely philosophical sense, Richter's landscapes question the nature of painting as he intends them not be reproductions of nature, instead they are more impressions of it.
On the other hand, the philosophical idea of an architech for existance makes better philosophical sense, and this may indeed be why Einstein was a Theist rather tan an atheist.
Morality itself (in the broad scientific - philosophical sense of the term) is most foundationally «about» the sustainable and healthy survival of the human species along with plentiful biological diversity along with the sustainable health of our home, planet Earth, all accomplished in a way that respects human equality (in important senses) and embraces a living and somewhat fragile planet.
Johan is implicated in the consciousness movement in a more philosophical sense than Marianne.
In a philosophical sense, faith, love, justice, mercy and truth can not exist in the absence of a second party.
The significant thing is that the particular school of process thought is flexible and comprehensive enough to function credibly and adequately, in both the theological and philosophical senses, without denigrating or disparaging the Christian faith which it seeks to incorporate and elucidate.
These momentary experiences, too, may be called «atomic» in the philosophical sense, in that they can not be divided into more basic units that have full actuality.
The ability to reason, in the philosophical sense of thinking critically about one's beliefs, develops only if a man keeps critical company so that a critic is incorporated in his own consciousness.
I guess we are back to why I just don't argue over «truth», in the philosophical sense.
However, in its broader, philosophical sense, scientific thought can not escape the question of creation because it is about the Cause of all causality.
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.
In my work, I use the term «idealism» in the philosophical sense: as a particular way to explain society, politics, and history, which attributes a central role to ideas, whether these are normative values or explanatory principles.
In 1940, Northbourne published an influential book, Look to the Land, in which he elaborated on the idea of the farm as an «organic whole» — in the philosophical sense «organic» refers to «having a complex but necessary interrelationship of parts, similar to that in living things.»
In a catalog for the New Mexico University Gallery's 1956 exhibition Forty California Painters, Mallary said «I am inclined to believe that my recurrent «black» paintings must reflect a kind of existential viewpoint in a philosophical sense,» a trait that would be central to his 1960s work.
However, while this seemed like a great break, it wasn't... because in a philosophical sense what I was doing was the same.
Mr Franklin is speaking in both a philosophical sense and a practical one, as the inept jurist Natalia Combs Greene (now gone from the case) never gave the slightest indication that her courtroom was competent to adjudicate the hockey stick.
Nothing is ever «necessarily true» (in the philosophical sense) in the real world, (except the trivial, such as «Milliband is Milliband», and even then...) The important point is that the causal connections have not been made, ever, by anyone.
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