Sentences with phrase «philosophical speculation»

Also it must be freed from philosophical speculation about what lies beyond the reach of scientific testing.

Saying the «lights go out» permanently after death is just as much philosophical speculation as the idea's exact opposite — life after death.

While Jewish Christians often erred in the direction of legalism, Gentile Christians often erred in the direction of philosophical speculations which sundered Christianity from its historical roots» (God's Festivals in Scripture and The Catholic theologian Augustine lived A.D. 354 - 430.

And it is conjectured that much of the impulse to the profound religious and philosophical speculation which forms the basis of the Upanishads was from the non-Brahmin ranks.

Science began with philosophical speculation twenty - five centuries ago, and it seems likely that it will end in the same place.

«The problem with Gentile Christians,» notes church historian Samuele Bacchiocchi, «was not only their lack of familiarity with Scripture, but also their excessive fascination with their Greek philosophical speculations, which conditioned their understanding of Biblical truths.

Later, the thought of Spencer, Bergson, and LeRoy were to inspire him to more philosophical speculation.

Keith Arnatt's I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday, typifies the tone: a photograph of the artist in his Seventies flares walking up the entry steps to Tate Britain is accompanied by two panels of philosophical speculation on the meaning of the work's title.

As Christianity spread throughout the Greco - Roman world, it became apparent that the biblical doctrines concerning God, morality, and future retribution had similarities with the philosophical speculations of the Platonists, Aristotelians, and Stoics.

If he accepts other norms besides this, then he must return to some identification of revealed propositional truth, admit some other encounter with God than that which occurs in Jesus Christ, or allow authority to the conclusions of philosophical speculation.

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

Philosophical speculation was the source of some of the deviations.

This decisiveness and completeness of acceptance is prevented when we become entangled with questions about how it is related to scientific knowledge and philosophical speculations.

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.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

They considered the relation of the forms embodied in reason and the forms embodied in nature, and thus further extended their philosophical speculations far beyond the range of philosophy of nature.

The Church did not accept every philosophical speculation Augustine suggested, sometimes tentatively, to explain the «how» of it.

At the conclusion of Whitehead's thought stands the insight into the unfathomableness of reality and the recognition of the necessarily provisional nature of philosophical speculation (PR xiv; ESP 114).

For it is without doubt the imagery of the models in theology which evoke the communal adoration, obeisance, awe, devotion, ecstasy, courage — the emotive and cognitive dimensions of faith that constitute it religious faith rather than philosophical speculation or metaphysical system - building.

Like religion, science also contributes something to philosophical speculation.

Here scientific theory and philosophical speculation are hard to keep separate.

Philosophy should take the results of science as given, as data from which philosophical speculation begins.

If revelation has sought to teach us of the mysteries of the Trinity transcending human reason, we must remember that its reflection began in the effort to understand just how God and the person of Jesus are to be related, and must make allowance for the partial or total eclipse of specific revelational content by the overlay of philosophical speculation.

At the tender age of twenty - one he realized that if he continued to indulge these philosophical speculations, they might well scuttle his physics career before it could even begin.

Claiming that some strange, new phenomenon caused an explosion (or inflation) is philosophical speculation.

Alex Garland's screenplay is pretty lean in terms of story (in the way that Jaws can be described as lean) and is more concerned with psychological suspense as opposed to philosophical speculation.

- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina «Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters.

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Philosophical speculation has often led into visionary fields where crops, scientifically fed without fear of costs yield bounteously with minimum of labor, yielding happiness as the result of abundance.

The Collective's work addresses connectedness, temporality and plenitude, and places them at the intersection of art, historical enquiry and philosophical speculation.

Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces, locates them in the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research, and theory.

Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces, locates them in the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory — often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters.