We have also seen that the traditional Christian interpretations of love have been largely influenced by one kind of
philosophical thought about being.
It seems odd that a movie so concerned with life after death should make so little reference to the thousands of years of religious and
philosophical thought on the subject.
Hence, to use bits of matter as the model for our philosophical understanding of the fundamental elements of reality is to freeze us into a static pattern
of philosophical thought.
It is to be hoped that as the centre develops in its work, so it will broaden its outlook so that the natural sciences, the single most influential strand of
philosophical thought in modern times, is not left out of the conversation.
Even though the Reformers tried to liberate the Bible
from philosophical thinking, they hardly began to deal with the deep hold of substance thought on theology.
Searching for the source of the main current in
modern philosophical thought, he focuses on the failure of early modern «naturalists» to address the anomalies in their metaphysical beliefs.
to act as an advocate
for philosophical thinking as a creative practice, and for the continuing cultural importance of philosophy.
Samartha therefore argues that whilst the classical creeds expressed Christian belief in terms of
Greek philosophical thought, they are not the only way in which God's revelation in Jesus Christ may be spoken of and indeed are often unhelpful in an Indian context.
No one disputes his team's straightforward experimental results, but «there is
much philosophical thought about what weak values really mean, what they physically correspond to — if they even really physically correspond to anything at all,» Jordan says.
With his open approach and the
Eastern philosophical thinking that permeates his works, Song Dong's art exudes a distinctive quality that has earned him prominent recognition in the international art scene.
In Eliade, an Indian Christian finds a Guru who opens the eyes to see the wealth of Indian traditions and who has made Indian / oriental religious philosophy dialogue with Western /
occidental philosophical thought.
He began with conceiving God as a philosophical principle and ended with one of the most profound conceptions of God in 20th
century philosophical thought.
Given its foundational character, it is not surprising that the question has, in various forms, troubled thinkers throughout history, from the earliest of Greek philosophers, when
properly philosophical thought first began, up to and including present day personalistic philosophy and theology.
The two schools of
philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.
By liberalism and our liberal society I mean three things...: 1) a commitment to skeptical reason, an affirmation of pragmatic intelligence, and an uneasiness about both
abstract philosophical thinking and nonrational modes of knowledge; 2) enthusiasm in principle (and increasingly in practice) for tolerance not only in political terms but much more obviously in terms of lifestyle and social norms; 3) affirmation of the central importance of the individual and individual freedom.
The Great Transformation looks at the
tremendous philosophical thoughts and cultural movements that arose during the Axial Age (500 BCE - 500 CE), which is right when yoga was beginning to get its legs — and offers rarely seen insight into how it developed.
As a mother with young children, I was often overwhelmed by everydayness; the physical and mental fortitude needed to get from morning to night trumped any
stray philosophical thought.
Here I refer to the
great philosophical thought problem: «If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?»
The title of this project programmatically refers to the namesake book by Hannah Arendt,
whose philosophical thought tried to answer the key question of the past century — how to be and stay Human in the face of the drama of History.