Sentences with phrase «philosophical thought on»

As Ted Cohen points out in his «philosophical thoughts on joking matters,» Jokes begin «with an implicit acknowledgment of a shared background,» and this commonality sets up the satisfactions of a shared response.

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In PART 2, crypto folk hero Amir Taaki shares his thoughts on past projects and AltCoins, while pointing to a philosophical paradox he sees in Bitcoin.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

While the general topic of lex talionis is always a fun philosophical discussion, I don't think it applies to what is going on in Israel right now.

On a far higher level, intellectually and spiritually, is that very noble philosophical poem called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that still nobler monument of ancient Hebrew thought, the Book of Job, a dramatic dialogue in splendid and sonorous verse upon the theme of suffering and its place in a providential order.

Nevertheless, most of what Whitehead tells us about God in Religion in the Making is primarily based on the further development of his philosophical thought.

In spite of the impression some death - of - God writers may give, this line of thought is based not on the Revelation but altogether on philosophical considerations.

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

On this basis existentialist philosophers revolted against the deterministic philosophical theories which dominated a great deal of thought at the end of the nineteenth century.

Anthropologists such as Margaret Mead had a remarkable influence on social science, philosophical thinking and professional training.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

Process thought is usually defined in one of three ways: (1) as any view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based on the findings of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy of Whitehead and Hartshorne.

One essay (by Randall Morris) focuses on Hartshorne's political thought, another (by Piotr Gutowski) on his conception of theology, and a third essay (by David Pailin) on his contributions to philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.

Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract, human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

And after finishing the article — «OK, never - mind, we basically agree on the most important ideas, he just approaches thinks with a philosophical framework so incongruous from mine that even the things we agree on are going to sound totally different.»

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

To be credible included, of course, that the doctrine not describe an oppressive God, but the focus was on believability by people who were affected by historical, scientific, and philosophical thought.

Ibn Rushd's (Averroes) greatness is to be found more in his commentaries on Aristotle than in independent philosophical thought.

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

His failure to interpret correctly the philosophical and theological traditions that precede this revolution shows how difficult it is to think outside the nominalist and Gnostic horizon once we're inside it, especially when our technologically mediated relationship to the natural world and our own bodies reinforces its hold on us.

In order to see the history of humanity in the West more clearly, we need to turn on its head a characteristic, self - congratulating modern description of the philosophical achievement that Descartes is thought to have accomplished.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

First, I am a professor of philosophy and a professional philosopher, I guess you could say, privy to the philosophical movements of the twentieth century, many of which, for better or worse, have had an influence on theology and thinking about religion.

[4] Religious historian James Noel points out the problematics inherent in the contradictory worldviews upon which New Thought is based: philosophical non-dualism on the one hand, and the dualism of the Judeo - Christian biblical tradition on the other.

Throughout Hartshorne's work love has been the standard by which decisions are best determined, yet he fails to think as broadly on abortion as he does on most other philosophical questions.

She is particularly fond of the stoic thinker Chrysippus, whom she thinks to be «the most profound thinker on emotion in the entire philosophical tradition.»

The purpose of the meeting is described on the conference website: «within the complex and multifaceted issue of the Science / Faith relationship, this event focuses on the possibility of reconcilingin the same philosophical position the «Creation» and «Evolution'thinking, without frst pretending to be a scientifc theory or secondly being affrmed as a dogma.»

But these men are important historically in a third way: not only their results and their methods but the philosophical interpretations of their ideas had a major impact on Western thought.

I am however happy to listen to your thoughts on more philosophical matters.

Professor MacKinnon adds some further thoughts on Professor Lampe's position, and concludes the dialogue by briefly indicating the philosophical presuppositions which affect his own thinking on these issues.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

In particular, as the late Victor Lowe patiently and quietly maintained throughout his lifetime — and as Donald Sherburne has forcefully and convincingly demonstrated in his many writings — theism was not an essential component of Whitehead's thought, and the viability of process metaphysics does not stand or fall on the issue of theism alone (as the vast majority of process philosophers and opponents of process philosophy and its brands of philosophical theism stubbornly continue to maintain).

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.

So I think that there is even textual evidence to show that on a purely philosophical basis alone, Whitehead's system does not require us to postulate the God of religion.

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.

At that time I was also looking for some new inspiration on how to think about God, in a way which would not imply a complete break with my own philosophical and theological tradition.

There were even some Protestant theologians who thought that Aquinas had constructed an immense philosophical substructure based on reason alone, to which he had added a flimsy theological superstructure grounded in divine revelation.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

If something like this may legitimately be asserted on the basis of a philosophical world - view such as process - thought has developed, we have reason to be grateful.

Scientific, philosophical, and religious thoughts, are all flawed with our limited human perceptions based on our own human experiences and the evolution of those thoughts over time.

Whitehead and Hartshorne, using similar philosophical concepts, also rely on a combination of abstract thinking and particular experiences or intuitions.

Physicist David Bohm, who dares to speculate on what he considers to be the philosophical implications of modern physics, asks whether thought itself might not be part of reality as a whole.

Parts of the talk engage in some philosophical reflection on what it might mean to think of God «intervening» in our world.

Professor Tillich himself, to whom we referred at the beginning of this lecture, although not at all identified with process - thought, was insistent on the necessity for the development of a modern philosophical theology and was increasingly finding himself in sympathy with many of the conclusions of thinkers such as Hartshorne; and more recently, as he himself acknowledged in the preface to the third volume of Systematic Theology, he associated his own views with those of Teilhard.

The persistence of this belief has had disastrous influence through the centuries on philosophical and theological thought, and upon physical theories as well.

This definition became classical for Christianity and the western philosophical tradition, and is the hinge around which all later Christian thought on the person rotates.

If I am not a Hauerwasian, I am even less a process - relational thinker; hence I am ill - equipped to judge the merits of these proposals on the basis of their coherence with certain basic tenets of process - relational thought — which seems to be the main basis upon which Muray wishes them to be judged since his paper is otherwise fairly thin on more general philosophical or Christian theological arguments for the views he puts forward.

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.