Sentences with phrase «philosophical system»

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.

Every such criterion would involve premises belonging to particular philosophical systems.

What they are not, is an original philosophical system.

To my mind, this conceptuality is much closer to the general biblical interpretation than the more static philosophical systems which have so often been adopted by Christian theologians.

At first sight, this would seem to be a contradiction even from within Aristotle's own philosophical system.

It was a hope of many philosophers to find indubitable experiential knowledge upon which whole philosophical systems could be built.

Whitehead's approach is, in my opinion, unique among modem philosophical systems because he attempts to resolve a long - standing epistemological difficulty by an appeal to ontology.

The debate has long been waged as to which Greek philosophical system most extensively underlies the development of Christian thought in the West: the Platonism and neo-Platonism appropriated by Augustine or the Aristotelianism reshaped by Thomas Aquinas.

Second, many feminists are critical of using established philosophical systems to articulate the experience of women on the...

His deeply elaborated philosophical system underpins all his writing, grounding it with an impressive coherence and consistency.

You're probably familiar with the term feng shui, which is a Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing elements of the surrounding environment.

In my experience, natural law is the second most ridiculed philosophical system and is well known to be nothing more than an attempt to inject religion into philosophical conversation.

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

Discovering obscurities in other philosophical systems came to be one of his favorite activities.

That something can be different in appearance from what it is essentially can easily be catered for within Aquinas's Aristotelian philosophical system because one of the most basic distinctions is between substance and accident.

In Science and the Modern World, we noted how White - head first criticized the introduction of God into philosophical systems and then himself introduced him.

The distinction between existentiell and existential, the first meaning that which belongs to existence as such, the second that which belongs to the particular philosophical system called existentialism, is expressed by the use of «existential» for the former, and «existentialist» for the latter.

His knowledge of Yoga, Indian philosophical systems, Indian epics, Vedas, Upanishads, Buddhism, Jainism, Indian folklore, art, alchemy, popular myths and rituals has made him one of the best Indologists that the West has ever produced.

Solzhenitsyn, on the other hand, has given up seeking the theoretical high ground from which to build a new philosophical system and instead articulates a strategy of resistance against any and all metaperspectives.

Theological and philosophical systems such as Hegel's run the risk of obscuring this crucial problem by making it seem an objective matter capable of a universal solution, rather than a subjective one that each person must confront.

Nonetheless, its respectability as an important contemporary philosophical system seems established even as weaknesses and ambiguities continue to be explored.

Undoubtedly the most neglected aspect of Whitehead's copious philosophical system is his social philosophy, in general, and his views on civilization, in particular.

The whole philosophical system depends on it» (PR 238).

By saying this Hartshorne is challenging the fundamental axiom around which Brightman's whole philosophical system revolves.

The earlier teachers of Law, for example, Manu and the Buddhist saints and Philosophical systems like Sankhya have used the fables to illustrate their teachingsxlviii.

But, uniquely, the rationalists (as we use the term) insist — albeit with the same tentativeness that is required by the fallibility of all human reflection — that some of the elements of an adequate philosophical system are properly speaking metaphysical, i.e., they make claims that are said to apply to any possible world because they are thought to be universally and necessarily true.

As the creators of MediYoga note on their website, «Orthodox medicine is superb at emergency care, and yoga is a complete philosophical system that supports our own healing process.»

But it can explain them coherently within its own philosophical system.

27 of A History of Philosophical Systems, ed.

It would appear that a relatively simple statement that leaves unsaid much of what it implies («Jesus loves me») or a word such as luck that exists in the absence of any sophisticated theoretical tradition could evoke a sense of the meaning of life as much as an elaborate philosophical system.

Rightly recognizing that the great natural theologies of the past, whether Augustinian or Thomistic, were creative adaptations of independent philosophical systems, Cobb undertakes just such an adaptation of the system of Whitehead.