His Gallery 291 became a locus for the exchange of critical opinions and theoretical and
philosophical views in the arts, while his periodical Camera Work became a forum for the introduction of new aesthetic theories by American and European artists, critics, and writers.
The dominance of Western
philosophical views in scholarly circles often reduces Third World perspectives to an inferior status.
Not exact matches
Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited
in his own experience, 2 his predominant
view and his
philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»
In his fair and generally sympathetic review of my book Bergson and Modern Physics, David Sipfle raised some important and significant questions which clearly show how extremely complex the questions concerning the nature of time are and how difficult it is to agree on their solutions even for those who share a basic
philosophical view.
Though seminary faculties like to affirm,
in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to
view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics,
philosophical and political theology, or social policy.
The Folly of Scientism Austin L Hughes, a professor of biology at the University of South Carolina, has written a perceptive, thought - provoking article
in The New Atlantis magazine, concurring with my own
view of current
philosophical trends
in popular scientific presentations.2 One of these trends is «scientism», the
view that science is the only source of truth and reality.
Maimonides is the first of them to ascribe specific
philosophical views to Job and to the other speakers
in the dialogue.
In the first draft of Catholicism, now published thanks to Fr Nesbitt as Matter and Mind, we find a fuller discussion than Catholicism offers of Fr Holloway's
view of this
philosophical movement and its challenge to Christian belief.
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).
«The term can refer to theological accounts of the world as God's creation; or to
philosophical reflection on the categories of space and time; or to observational and theoretical study of the structure and evolution of the physical universe; or, finally, to «world
views»: unified imaginative perceptions of how the world seems and where we stand
in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii).
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 sense).
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.
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.
He also offered the outlines of a
philosophical and theological «new synthesis», which,
in our
view, meets all the CiV criteria we have just noted.
«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from
philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world -
view in which the idea of God encountered
in human history is thoroughly integrated.
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.
In a recent interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of religion Emil L. Fackenheim rejects Kierkegaard's
view that Hegel's philosophy is destructive of religion, and argues that Hegel seeks to penetrate «the relation between rational self - activity and religious receptivity to the divine and the relation of
philosophical self - activity to both.
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.
In what is to follow I will examine those strands of Craig's
philosophical argument for the
view that the universe began to exist which seem to be the strongest.
Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched
in (ii), is perhaps better
viewed as a regulative principle guiding
philosophical reflection than as a
philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate
in the present.
Say what one will about the dubious quality of Heidegger's judgment here, the problem for his interpreters seems to remain one of demonstrating that his later
philosophical views are any less dubious than his earlier ones — especially as they are rooted
in the manner
in which he lived.
The
philosophical types
in ancient Greece took the
view that sin was caused by ignorance, and thus to find virtue, with furrowed brows they endeavored to be wise.
Yet this
view of nature is
in fact derivative from an expressly Christian
view of the world expressed
in philosophical rather than
in exclusively theological or scriptural terms.
Biologists as basically different
in their
philosophical and biological
views as W. H. Thorpe and Jacques Monod agree that the origin of life is a difficult, and thus far intractable and unsolved, problem.
To some extent this tension between concern for the common cause and concern for one's selfish interest was reflected at the theoretical level
in the tension between utilitarians and those who held the traditional religious and
philosophical views.
But
in most
philosophical discussion, he observes, realism usually means a commitment to the correspondence theory of truth, the law of the excluded middle and a nonepistemic
view of truth.
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.
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).
At the risk of even greater brevity but
in the hope of a clear capsule
view, I set forth my own model: fundamental theology is that discipline which consists
in philosophical reflection upon the meanings present
in our common human experience and
in the Christian fact.
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.
The condition requisite for healing it always this about - face, and from a purely
philosophical point of
view it might be a subtle question whether it is possible for one to be
in despair with full consciousness of what it is about which one despairs.)
In this paper I shall develop a view of perception from the partial theory to be found in Whitehead's early philosophical writings and defend it against objections which led Whitehead himself to replace it later with a somewhat different theory.1 Development of the Early Theory The first phase or moment of perception is sense - awareness (CN.
In this paper I shall develop a
view of perception from the partial theory to be found
in Whitehead's early philosophical writings and defend it against objections which led Whitehead himself to replace it later with a somewhat different theory.1 Development of the Early Theory The first phase or moment of perception is sense - awareness (CN.
in Whitehead's early
philosophical writings and defend it against objections which led Whitehead himself to replace it later with a somewhat different theory.1 Development of the Early Theory The first phase or moment of perception is sense - awareness (CN...
This overweening confidence grew out of a theology which had a superficial
view of man's sinfulness, which identified the Kingdom of God with current political and
philosophical ideals, and which pictured man as having a «spark of the divine»
in him and thus capable of his own salvation.
«6 Indeed, during the decade following publication of Whitehead's major
philosophical works, a variety of theologians, both
in the United States and
in Great Britain, were responsive to the new
views articulated by Whitehead and made considerable use of many general features of his philosophy
in constructing their own theologies.
The contributions of Christian, Hartshorne and several others to the current
philosophical development of process theology are probably best
viewed in the context of certain important problems of process theism.
Since 1950,
philosophical discussions of Whitehead's
view of God have been influenced primarily by Charles Hartshorne and William Christian.50 Hartshorne has continued to develop and apply the doctrines of panpsychism and panentheism explained
in Part One.
What is necessary is a
philosophical analysis of nature
in which the very existence of equational fields of force
in the material universe is linked to a metaphysical
view of what an object is and how it is related to other objects.
Having stated his thesis that one must begin with Whitehead's diagnosis, Rorty quotes him as follows: «The difficulties of all schools of modern philosophy lie
in the fact that having accepted the subjectivist principle, they continue to use
philosophical categories derived from another point of
view» (PR 253; WEP 134; italics mine).
While his
philosophical views would seem to underwrite a notion of privacy and seclusion, there is no more public figure to be found
in contemporary English - language philosophy.
It amounts
in fact to a socio -
philosophical revolution that has literally turned our
view of reality inside out.
Indeed,
in a world of many points of
view, there is a deep
philosophical problem involved
in trying to defend the claim that one point of
view is right and all others wrong when fundamental beliefs and values are involved.
The
view of accommodationism is one that is only theological, taking theology
in the strictest sense, namely, without the incorporation of
philosophical and historical perspectives.
Undoubtedly the most neglected aspect of Whitehead's copious
philosophical system is his social philosophy,
in general, and his
views on civilization,
in particular.
Whitehead's
view of reality expressed
in his concept of the self is the most important
philosophical defense of freedom and creativity
in the twentieth century.
The more limited a sphere of knowledge is, and the more peripheral its
philosophical significance
in relation to man, the less directly, therefore, it concerns man himself and what essentially defines his own existence, the more readily of course the teaching of the faith can be
viewed as a mere norma negativa
in regard to that science.
In my
view, the failure of the scientific and
philosophical communities to pursue this question is one of the tragedies of intellectual history.
Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal
view of the world, perhaps more than any specific
philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development
in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.
Culminating
in the philosophy of Descartes and his
philosophical descendants, even today, such a dualism accents the primacy of the human mind,
viewing everything outside it as lifeless and inert.
In Jewish monotheism it is not a philosophical world view but the belief in the transcendence of God, in God the Creator, that stands ou
In Jewish monotheism it is not a
philosophical world
view but the belief
in the transcendence of God, in God the Creator, that stands ou
in the transcendence of God,
in God the Creator, that stands ou
in God the Creator, that stands out.
The group's chairman, Don E. Saliers, professor of theology at Emory, has for many years investigated the
philosophical as well as theological nature of emotional experience; many of his
views on the topic appear
in his book The Soul
in Paraphrase: Prayer and the Religious Affections (Seabury, 1980).