On the other hand, human beings are inherently unable to shape their lives and societies according to religious and
philosophical visions of what is just and good.
I believe it can be argued that rationality as the highest measure of creaturely value is not consistent with Hartshorne's
overall philosophical vision.
It proclaims not only a bill of rights, most of which have now in fact become embodied in international law, but a moral and
philosophical vision which aspires to universality.
... In learning philosophy you have to learn to argue for or against philosophical opinions and to understand and
assess philosophical visions and you have to become familiar with some of the arguments and outlooks that have been advanced on certain topics in the past.
Finally, one additional dimension of
this philosophical vision must be clarified.
Our excursion into
the philosophical visions of Whitehead and Laszlo has disclosed significant parallels in their thought.
The author explores
the philosophical visions of Whitehead and Ervin Laszlo, finding similarities and some serious differences.
In the present discussion the term cosmology will signify not only Whitehead's
philosophical vision but a vision of a process enriched by very recent discoveries in the physical sciences.
Most religious and
philosophical visions have intuited beyond or behind the transient flux of perishing events something or someone that preserves these events from utter loss and oblivion.2 These visions provide consolation even in the face of perishing.
My particular perspective within liberal Christianity has been shaped by years of living with
the philosophical vision of Alfred North Whitehead.
John Cobb and those of us he mentored, as well as Daniel Day Williams, have appropriated
the philosophical vision of Whitehead and Hartshorne in putting theology back into contact with the biblical understanding of a God in dynamic interrelation with all of creation.
The artist's upbringing is reflected in
his philosophical vision and artistic practice which is influenced by Jacques Derrida's theory of «Deconstructivism», a concept his father helped introduce into Iranian academia.