Sentences with phrase «philosophical systems»

Likewise if you are working on the history of philosophy you might take an interest in the rise of religions or science and turn to either Hegel or Marx with their grand narratives attempting to explain the evolution of human civilization, whereas if you are interested in the history of philosophy you might consider Frederick Copleston — who is largely just trying to describe in layman's terms and in chronological order different philosophical systems.

These two philosophical systems are so divergent that little common ground exists for compromise.

Although rooted in Avery's own upbringing on the Scottish island Mull, the landscape, architecture and anthropology of The Island are evolved through diverse mathematical and philosophical systems.

I find this way of thinking as a much kinder one that can offer some relief to women grieving a miscarriage, especially if she is open to other religious or philosophical systems.

The nature - grace dynamic is thus «framed within a Christological context rather thandrawing upon metaphysical categories developed in independent philosophical systems.»

In A History of Philosophical Systems, edited by Vergilius Ferm.

The cosmologies implied in mythic, religious and most philosophical systems of the past have been hierarchical in nature.1 They have usually delineated four realms of cosmic being: mineral, plant, animal, man.

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.

The chief culprit in many philosophical systems violating this principle is the concept of God.

Charles Hartshorne, «Panpsychism,» in A History of Philosophical Systems, ed.

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.

This would provide, of course, still another fruitful point of contact between the philosophical systems of these two great thinkers.

Thus it seems reasonable to conclude that Hegel and Whitehead, even though their philosophical systems differ so dramatically in specific details, nevertheless represent two variations of a single tradition of process philosophy.

To put this another way: Taylor's «suspicion» of doctrine or, more generally, of speculative philosophical systems is not about the inability of language to express the truth of life.

«Hartshorne's «Panpsychism» in A History of Philosophical Systems, V. Ferrn (ed.)

I disagree, rather, with the distorted interpretations based on patriarchal social patterns and neo-platonic philosophical systems which men have used to obscure the radical message of the Gospel and to oppress women.15

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.

27 of A History of Philosophical Systems, ed.

This model relativized the philosophers and philosophical systems.

Since the sixteenth century, he complained, philosophical systems have «multiplied beyond measure,» and even Catholic philosophers have accommodated themselves to a curricular mentality that «depends on the authority and choice of any professor.»

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.

There is also continuity in the correspondence between the qualifiers used for God in both [D] and [E]: «unmoved mover» in 342.17 -LRB-[El) recovers, in a formulation that is peculiar to some philosophical systems, the general idea of staticity in God (346.38, in [D]-RRB-, whereas «eminently real» (342.18 - 19, in [E]-RRB- is identical to «eminent reality» (346.38, In [D]-RRB-.

Even the discordance of comprehensive philosophical systems is a factor essential for progress....

I'm NOT just talking about «bible believers» (yes, Christians and Jews believe in human evil, but so do a wide variety of religions, AND philosophical systems, AND political systems, AND individual thinkers), and you and I both know that we're not just talking about «millions», but BILLIONS — the number of those who believe in human evil FAR outnumber you.

Confucianism is similar to ethics and both philosophical systems are established based in our experiences in life.

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 Middle Ages brought about a great flowering of Christian culture: the cathedrals and the philosophical systems (especially in Thomas Aquinas), as well as Christianity's development of social structures.

A History of Philosophical Systems.

Whitehead once observed that there is a hidden imaginative background behind even the most refined and abstract of philosophical systems.

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

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

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.

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.

In regards to pluralism (the philosophical system), it is simply a product of the syncretism, synthesis, and despair that has resulted from the rise and dominance of existential philosophy (existentialism having given up on the quest for truth a long time ago).

The way out of this seeming contradiction is to mount another distinction within Aristotle's philosophical system, this time the distinction between primary and secondary causality.

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

The decision on the part of the Christian theologian as to where he should turn for his natural theology should involve the judgment as to whether the vision of reality underlying the philosophical system is compatible with that essentially involved in the Christian faith...

Far from conforming human persons to a philosophical system, the Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

Commentators of Aristotle have often noted an unresolved tension at the center of his philosophical system, inasmuch as the Aristotelian ontology is centered on the primacy of individual substances, while his epistemology is centered on the intelligibility of the universal.

The probable answer is that in these lectures he was addressing an audience of modernist liberal rationalists, and wanted to persuade them that even their own philosophical system had to concede at least some room for nonrational opinions on public questions, and therefore for religious opinion.

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.

This summary of the first two books of The Star of Redemption explains why it is not precisely wrong for Pollock to say that Rosenzweig has written a philosophical system in which he has demonstrated a particular type of All or totality.

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

While Bultmann in some sense agrees with this, Ogden says, his employment of Heidegger's philosophical system makes the second kind of language virtually impossible.

«Never before,» he wrote, «has a really first - rate philosophical system so completely and directly as Whitehead's supported the idea that there is a supreme love which is also the supreme being.

Thus instead of trying to construct a philosophical system which accords with the rule of reason, as Hegel had done, Nietzsche begins by turning reason against itself, uncovering in the process its «irrational» origins in nature («On the Genealogy & Morals,» BWN; Sections 2 and 16; WP, Sections 480 and 481).

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

Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.

Consistent with Whitehead's philosophical system, God, as a part of reality, interacts with the rest of reality.

This is not to suggest that Jesus spelled out, in a philosophical system, the thought of a divine energy at work in the world.