Sentences with phrase «philosophical tradition»

In Western philosophical tradition, hospitality is also linked to the notion of territory.

I pull from cutting - edge neuroscience as well as spiritual and philosophical traditions in my approach to therapy.

For this reason I would engage now in more detail with his presentation of a prominent philosophical tradition from the point of view of the different one presented by the Faith movement.

One strand in the liberal philosophical tradition, for example, argues that natural resources such as land are fundamentally the property of all.

The wellness «movement» is defined more by consumer demand than by any one underlying philosophical tradition.

Or, did they successfully unite the best parts of the Western philosophical tradition, and so create a political philosophy that could withstand its own worst tendencies?

This undertaking, which looks upon Plato's Timaeus as its paradeigma, has been termed cosmology» in the western philosophical tradition of which Whitehead's Process and Reality is a prime example.

His search impelled him to ask the question of all the other religious traditions (some of which were hardly prepared to entertain such a goal), as well as the great philosophical traditions of the West.

The Jewish tradition, which has also influenced Christian theology, although not always so much as the Greek philosophical tradition, did see the body as valuable and integral to the life of the person.

Alfred North Whitehead concluded, boring or not, that «the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.»

To base one's judgment of an entire political and philosophical tradition on a particular (contestable) reading of how one proto - liberal thinker (Kant) might or might not provide resources for someone like Nietzsche doesn't strike me as good intellectual practice.

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.»

Daoism (also known as «Taosim») is a Chinese philosophical tradition that emphasizes living in harmony with the universe and both the light and dark sides to everything.

These lines may be envisaged as either the life paths of individuals or the paths of other religious and philosophical traditions towards God.

The obstacle provided by the multiplicity of ethical and philosophical traditions within nations and among the international community.

Peter Winch in Simone Weil: The Just Balance (Cambridge University Press, 1989) brilliantly connects Weil's underlying philosophy to the linguistic philosophical tradition that clusters around Wittgenstein.

His ideas swept away the prejudices of dogmatic philosophical tradition and demanded an accounting of the inner conscious life and the universe itself, as we find it, not as philosophers have believed it ought to be or must be.

The conclusion reached is that the modern philosophical tradition was mistaken in postulating sensory images as objects of perception.

In the Western philosophical tradition there have been those who concerned themselves with no other subjects than human beings.

(Of course, this is only novel for the secular philosophical tradition: the historical contingency of knowledge has been recognized in the theological tradition since at least St. Irenaeus, and St. Thomas Aquinas emphasized the importance of bodily practice in his virtue theory.)

«I am bending the antiessentialist philosophical tradition to Christian purposes,» Marshall explains.

It has gained no role in the church, and its radical approach to scriptural authority, together with the appearance of being tied to a particular philosophical tradition, may preclude its ever attaining any acceptance.

What these morons continually fail to realize is the enormously significant and sophisticated / progressive philosophical tradition that was established in that age that has been commonly attributed to the Judaic teachings of Jesus Christ.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

He distinguishes three types of empiricism, what we may call the «classical» empiricism of the modem philosophical tradition, and two more or less revisionary forms thereof.

He shows how critics rooted in one philosophical tradition typically interpret other traditions in ways that are different from the interpretations of those who inhabit those traditions.

This modern program has recently, and justifiably, been criticized from within the dominant philosophical tradition.

Perhaps the most pervasive assumption in the Occidental philosophical tradition has been that there exist unique individuals capable of acting responsibly and morally in an ordered, temporal continuum.

The western philosophical tradition viewed as a whole stands Out as a process of the enhancement of subjectivity rather than the correction of it.

Obviously then, the term person became one of incomparable significance for Christian thought, while its importance for the western philosophical tradition grew in proportion.

Well, according to Aquinas, and the Christian philosophical tradition before and after him, rationality is the ability of the soul to become all things.

Alex Byrne, Robert Stalnaker, and Ralph Wedgwood, Cambridge: MIT Press, 97 - 116; Truth: A Dialogue Between Philosophical Traditions, edited by Jose Medina and David Wood, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 271 - 287., (2001)

While artistically rooted in art movements of the 1950s and 60s including abstract expressionism, minimalism, and Arte Povera, Drew - influenced by non-Western philosophical traditions - views his work as a reflection of the cyclical nature of time, the continual processes of transformation, and the connectivity of all things.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

As we saw in the previous chapter, the Greek philosophical tradition, which has influenced our Christian theology so much, did not see the body as valuable enough to carry over to the immortality of the soul.

14See especially, Robert S. Corrington, The Community of Interpreters: 0n the Hermeneutics of Nature and the Bible in the American Philosophical Tradition (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1987) and William M. Shea, The Naturalists and the Supernatural: Studies in Horizon and an American Philosophy of Religion (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984).