Sentences with phrase «philosophical understanding»

A physical, psychological and philosophical understanding of the mind structure will lead the students to the ability of managing the mind's activities to attain the state of yoga.

In short, I believe that this evolutionary, eschatological, hedonistic ethic is an appropriate contemporary philosophical understanding of the biblical commandment to love God with all one's heart and one's neighbor equally as oneself.

In the picture of Jesus presented to us in the gospels and treasured in the Christian «memory» (to use a word of Professor John Knox), they see a «revelation in act» of that which a sound philosophical understanding of the world can discern «in theory».

One wishes for a more substantial treatment of the classical philosophical understanding of virtue and the moral life, to which the book devotes only two paragraphs, one of which contains the following summary:

They sought a new philosophical understanding of the Christian faith, and in doing so they seemed to be moving even farther left than the liberals

This basic philosophical understanding is consistently expressed in Metz's later work.

The reason you're still sticking to it is simple — either you busied yourself too much away from a true philosophical understanding of your own beliefs or you lack the mental or empathetical faculties necessary.

Her images of the world as God's body and her models of God as mother, lover, and friend of the world illuminate the more philosophical understanding I derive from process theology.

Our postmodern age needs both the radiant light of Christ's theological wisdom and encouragement to venture out in search of decisive philosophical understanding.

Yet, despite this fundamentally theological mode of approach, there is much in the Summa that is likewise applicable to the person in its use regarding the human individual, and also according to a purely philosophical understanding.

Rudolf Bultmann has shown us that the modern philosophical understanding of authentic existence illumines Christian faith.

Although she uses different medium, a similar philosophical understanding of what art is can be identified in both Abramovic's and Pollock's art — the art is process, not the final product.

The Neo-Confucian philosophical understanding of the orderly world is featured in scenes such as gardens, landscapes, scholars, birds and plants.

The study concludes with an analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.

This neuro - philosophical understanding of human nature presents a number of challenges that can only be addressed through appropriate forms of governance.

That is the philosophical understanding behind African myths, customs, traditions, beliefs, morals, actions, and social relationships.

Using the Roman Catholic mass as a metaphor for his philosophical understanding of man in relation to the universe, the author explores in poetic prose the unity and sacredness of all creation using concepts like power, Word (logos), and fire to relate to ecclesiastical terms like communion and prayer, and emphasizing the simplicity, coherence and harmony of everything through the universal presence of the Word.

It just so happens that you need good reading comprehension and philosophical understanding to see it.

It should be clear by now that Teilhard's vision can offer an authentic way to a Christian future only if it is buttressed by a philosophical understanding, which Teilhard himself only partially and precariously achieved.

For Teilhard the problem was not simply that technological development outstrips our philosophical understanding and moral codes.

Feminists began their critical work in response to insults and injustices generated — to paraphrase Sobrino — by scientific and philosophical understandings that «explained» and «gave meaning to existing realities» of exclusion, especially of women.

Third, in both classical schooling and higher education, a self - conscious recovery of a biblical and philosophical understanding of created nature and the practical and spiritual relationship to it that fosters the human good must have a place in the curriculum.

It is also important to add that philosophy is less than the totality of Christianity, so that any philosophical understanding of evil can not possibly be sufficient for anyone who suffers.

That theism has existed in some form since the earliest human civilizations, it appears evident that a concept of God has been a necessary part our philosophical understanding of the world and our relationships to it.

This is apparent in the points of agreement and difference Bultmann sees between the Christian and the philosophical understanding of human life.

But he thinks that the Christian and the philosophical understanding of human life are so close to one another in their conception of sin that he refuses to distinguish between them at this point.

Does it offer a firm barrier against the philosophical understanding of human life, which, as we have seen, is inescapably socratic and immanentist?

Sin is thus a phenomenon of the ego on the same level of immanence as the philosophical understanding of human life.

Nesteruk could perhaps have made things easier for himself if he had drawn on Aquinas» philosophical understanding of being, especially as his chapter «Constituting the Universe: Transcendental Delimiters and Apophaticism in Cosmology» may run the danger of conflating the notion of created being with the uncreated Being of God.

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.

Whitehead explains the need for religion to be grounded in a philosophical understanding: «Religion requires a metaphysical backing; for its authority is endangered by the intensity of the emotions which it generates.

Without some philosophical understanding of what is meant by the word «Creator» this whole sentence is basically meaningless.

This is not to say, however, that we can not recast our philosophical understanding and the conceptual framework surrounding such dogmas.

The old paradigm refers to a philosophical understanding of children, discipline and parenting that is based on a distinct hierarchy and may include many different parenting techniques and attitudes.

Show your philosophical understanding of your own dream.

It seems to me that Bishop connects this visual experience to his philosophical understanding of reality and change.

Retrospectively, this series of experimental work anticipates his philosophical understanding of the photographic medium, that is, «photography is just a glimpse, a detail or fragment of the whole», as if camera obscura is «a window» through which one looks at the world.

Beyond the material and visual references, nature is also reflected in Drew's philosophical understanding of his work, which he views to be a reflection of the cyclical nature of time, the continual processes of transformation, and the connectivity of all things, or as the artist has succinctly put it, «the nature of nature.»