Sentences with phrase «philosophical traditions within»

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

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In his philosophical works Edward Holloway suggests a slight realignment of detail within the realist tradition in the light of modern insights into material reality.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Within the great Christian tradition, revelation does not primarily suggest the disclosure of a set of truths — be they ethical or religious or philosophical — that give information to men about their actual behavior or their ideal behavior, or even about the nature of the universe and the meaning which it may possess.

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

Thus Hartshorne belongs broadly within the idealist tradition.29 At one of the recent meetings of the American Philosophical Association, a young man who stood up to speak identified himself as «the last idealist in captivity.»

Documenting a 2003 lecture by Piper, which transforms into a spontaneous group performance, the film situates her seminal 1983 work Funk Lessons in the tradition of mainstream films that represent the teaching of popular dance as a means of self - transcendence and cross-cultural contact, and within the broader philosophical context of Piper's The Color Wheel Series, which this video completes.

In his approach to his subjects, Schutter locates his practice within the traditions of philosophical inquiry by beginning with the surfaces of things.