Sentences with phrase «philosophical speculation as»

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

Not exact matches

The biggest of philosophical and theological questions such as life after death can only be answered with faith or educated speculation.

Ideal first with the need for speculation to fulfill the twin ideals of adequacy and coherence with regard to philosophical theology, or «natural» theology, meaning theology insofar as it deals with data that are in principle universally accessible.

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.

It is a hastily planned sea voyage, a metaphoric exchange of solid ground for the unsteady, highly volatile seas of philosophical and aesthetic speculation and, as such, an apt metaphor for German Romanticism's precarious explorations as a whole.

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

As for the symbols expressing the coincidentia oppositorum, we know what role they have played in philosophical and theological speculations.

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.