Sentences with phrase «philosophical systems which»

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

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).

Whitehead's ontological principle plays a basic role in his philosophical system which presupposes that the universe is a «solidarity» of actual entities, solidarity made possible by «feelings.»

Not exact matches

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

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.

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

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.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

«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.

Now a philosophical theology which takes process as its basic category has one supreme advantage over the metaphysical systems in which Christian thought has traditionally been expressed.

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.

During the Middle Ages, Aristotelianism was a philosophical system shared by scientists and theologians which provided a unified world view.

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

«Spirit» occupies the central position in Hegel's thought; it is that «ultimate principle» which, as Whitehead suggests (PR 10), is present in any philosophical system and is actual by virtue of its accidents.

But Hubert Dreyfus and others have suggested that the whole project of attempting to develop and apply systems of artificial intelligence may be subject to limitations which are not just practical but philosophical (see, e.g., WCCD, Parts II and III and Conclusion).

It is not a sufficient condition for classification as an evolutionary cosmology that a philosophical system take some vague cognizance of, or prove itself compatible with the brute historical facts of evolutionary change and transformation (which are by no means always «upward» or «progressive»).

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

Christianity can not be equated with any particular philosophical synthesis, and the absolute claims for a metaphysical system which characterized medieval Christendom should be avoided.

I stated this emphatically in the first paper in which I indicated my philosophical position, a review (1921) of a book by C. M. Child on The Origin and Development of the Nervous System:

A philosophical discussion of the roots of morality is one thing, but now she has accepted a belief system that has multiple claims which are demonstrably false.

In most philosophical and theological systems Being was endowed with a more dignified status of the true reality, of which the temporal realm is merely a pale, shadowy replica.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

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

Yoga, which means «union» or «to yoke,» is both a philosophical system and a science whose goal is the attainment of self - awareness or an elevated consciousness.

When you are doing «900 shows a year,» an issue Stuart Polansky addresses in a book with that same title, questions of why and other philosophical questions get very short shrift for very practical reasons, most of which relate to school system structure and community value systems.

Kafre's solo exhibition Things, Mereology and Schemes is a new body of work focused on three main topics of particular interest to the artist: (1) Things — the distinction between the natural things, non-natural things and the artifacts that occur between them; (2) Mereology — the philosophical and mathematical study of parts and the wholes they form, and (3) Schemes — a scheme consists of a table's structure, which physical constitution is mainly due to columns, names and variables and the relation between them; used to map out something, or to design the internal of a logical system; the main points of an argument or theory, etcetera.

playing amateur sociologist of knowledge, I think some of this denial of the global comes from their general philosophical commitment to free markets, assumptions which tend to view only the individual as real, making larger institutions or «systems» metaphysical (an illusory abstraction).

The reason why people keep referring to Marxism is because it is a system of historical, philosophical and moral analysis which ends in some rather bleak proscriptions for modern society that ironically converge amazingly with the Green political agenda.

This project will examine the system in Ontario and three other jurisdictions with a view to understanding their philosophical underpinnings and the compensation system which results.