Sentences with phrase «philosophical view not»

It comes from a particular vocal group of naturalists on one side and a much smaller but equally noisy lot of creationists on the other, both of whom have increasingly been declaring their respective philosophical views not merely to be true but to be true in a specifically scientific sense.

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I understand «Pascal's Wager» very well, but it is taken from a philosophical (man's earthly) point of view, mine is not... mine is taken from a point of faith.

Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a point by point analysis of the texts not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal point of view» (p. xix).

Not knowing me personally or the philosophical path I've traveled down to reach my views, I will give you benefit of the doubt and chalk that comment up to ignorance (not saying this in the mean spirited sensNot knowing me personally or the philosophical path I've traveled down to reach my views, I will give you benefit of the doubt and chalk that comment up to ignorance (not saying this in the mean spirited sensnot saying this in the mean spirited sense).

I am assuming that this view is in serious tension with the Bible and am arguing that it is not logically required by the philosophical argument.

But a compelling philosophical argument can be made for the view that gay is not good, which means that it should be considered a disease in the same way as all the other sexual disorders in the DSM.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

On the contrary, he does not see any legitimate philosophical argument against the Christian view.

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).

I would argue from all view points (theological, philosophical, biblical, etc.) and from experience that to trust one is to not trust the other.

I can not discuss them all here, but the following references are a start: Theodore de Laguna, review of The Principles of Natural Knowledge in Philosophical Review, 29 (1920), 269; Bertrand Russell, review of Science and the Modern World in Nation and Athenaeum, 39 (May 29,1926), 207; Charles Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy (New York: Paragon House, 1984), 5,32,279 - 280; and even though Stephen Pepper believes both Whitehead and Bergson are mistaken in their views, he believes they are extremely similar: see Pepper, Concept and Quality: A World Hypothesis (LaSalle: Open Court, 1967), 340 - 341.

But from a strictly philosophical point of view, whether we want a conscious afterlife or not, the nature of the soul insures it.

In Jewish monotheism it is not a philosophical world view but the belief in the transcendence of God, in God the Creator, that stands out.

Barr takes the Cardinal to task for the wholesale criticism of «neo-Darwinism», arguing that in fact neo-Darwinism is a scientific theory about evolution, and not a philosophical world - view.

Ever since, organic views have remained as one stream within theological and philosophical thought, though not the main stream.

As a result, we can not assume that there are any self - evident unprejudiced philosophical arguments that do not presuppose some interpretive context and world view.

The philosophical naturalist's view of reality is not one that merely fails to find some particular object within the world that the theist imagines can be descried there; it is a very particular representation of the nature of things, entailing a vast range of purely metaphysical commitments.

As an Indian Christian theologian, I can not ignore the philosophical commonalties between the world - view of the colonialists and the British missionaries.

The marriage of this Jewish - Christian eschatological picture and the Greek philosophical view was not easily accomplished, nor was that marriage without its difficulties — it was hardly a quiet and successful relationship.

The foregoing is not to be construed as claiming that neither Hartshorne nor Quine subscribe to important and viable philosophical views, but only that neither seems to have stated them in a sufficiently cogent fashion to carry us forward in theology.

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.

What the reformers could not see, however, was that the philosophical and theological world view upon which the liturgical changes depended was passing away.

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 true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Third it questions the capacity of philosophical approaches to acknowledge that judgments and decisions are made right, not by conforming to an abstract principle, but by being made, committed to, and seen through in the imperfect world in which we live (a view known as «decisionism» and linked to the work of Max Weber).

«She knows the mountain that has to be climbed, but she also feels Schumer should not go unanswered from a philosophical point of view,» said Mike Long, who is not related to the prospective candidate.

The Politics Column recalls many Cuomo conversations about that struggle, not from any point of view, but from the philosophical dilemma it posed then — and now.

«We think that intelligent design is not, for this reason, a scientific proposal, and also — from a theological and philosophical point of view — is a wrong answer.»

reserved, introverted, philosophical, intelligent, procrastinator, self - centered, generous, impatient, educated, a little crazy (subjective view), nature lover (not to be confused with hiking, fishing or mountain climbing) and like to watch the ocean or sit in the park from time to time.

It may just be added - value for the adults watching (like Horton's philosophical musings or the Whos view of him as a god) but it wasn't really needed.

Anyway, suffice it to say that Sacks is not only no Frank Sinatra or John Wayne, he's not even much of a Billy Pilgrim, and while his blankness complements the passivity of the character (and Vonnegut's essentially fatalistic view of life), it creates a serious charisma vacuum that, in the novel, is filled by the narrator's generous philosophical digressions.

Despite some philosophical differences, though, the consortiums don't necessarily view each other as competitors.

But we need not view the influence of philosophical values as an embarrassment anymore.

Although the author writes from a strongly Christian point of view, the book isn't a sermon on the evils of torture, nor does it delve into philosophical discussion.

But White is looking not so much for an expressionist intensity as he is interested in communicating a view that derives from a philosophical outlook and earlier history.

This decision would prove indispensable as his philosophical training would go on to inform not only his art but also his views on abstraction in general throughout his life as an artist.

Teddy — I view my statement that the blogosphere contains a huge amount of misinformation to be either true or false, but not philosophical.

Whether climate change is true or not is a scientific matter, and it should be uncorrelated with philosophical views on the role of government in health care or the constitutional right to own a firearm.

As used in this subsection, the term «religious training and belief» does not include essentially political, sociological, or philosophical views, or a merely personal moral code.

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