Sentences with phrase «philosophical visions of»

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.

Our excursion into the philosophical visions of Whitehead and Laszlo has disclosed significant parallels in their thought.

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.

Not exact matches

But, to some, it's more philosophical, centering on whether this change would fit within the vision of its original inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto.

The decision on the part of the Christian theologian as to where he should turn for his natural theology should involve the judgment as to whether the vision of reality underlying the philosophical system is compatible with that essentially involved in the Christian faith...

Charles Hartshorne, Man's Vision of God (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941); Reality as Social Process (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1953); The Divine Relativity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948); Process and Divinity: Philosophical Essays Presented to Charles Hartshorne, ed.

The Gitagovinda thus points to the crux of this vision of reality, the heart of its philosophical difficulties but also the source of its remarkable power - indeed, «amazing grace.»

Furthermore, there are other visions of reality from which to learn: visions that, like Whitehead's perspective, can serve as philosophical underpinnings for a responsible environmental ethic.

From this perspective, religious experience includes more than a moral or philosophical or even an aesthetic vision of the universe.

Regarding his intellectual affinities, Hartshorne feels himself to be «closest» to Charles Sanders Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A. N. Whitehead.4 He expresses gratitude to his Harvard professors C. I. Lewis and H. M. Sheffer for introducing him to «logical exactitude,» and especially to Professor William Ernest Hocking, his first teacher in philosophical theology, for fresh insights into a philosophically trustworthy vision of God.5 Furthermore, he acknowledges some indebtedness to Josiah Royce, William James, and Ralph Barton Perry, as well as a close kinship to the Russian existentialist Nicolai Berdyaev.6 Nevertheless, Hartshome's philosophy is strikingly similar and most profoundly indebted to that of A. N. Whitehead.

And most of Man's Vision of God, The Divine Relativity, 33 and the editorial contributions to Philosophers Speak of God34 is a careful and extensive argument for the philosophical superiority and rational elegance of the «dipolar» conception of God in which the abstract, absolute side of God is balanced by a concrete, relative side.

By adopting a purely reactionary stance against the idealism of Hegel (and the philosophical tradition in general) Nietzsche ends up providing us with a vision of nature and the world which is overly narrow in scope.

From the time of Man's Vision of God (1941), he complained that discussions in philosophical theology lacked logical rigor.

It is to be remembered that at this time New Testament scholarship had little if any awareness of the apocalyptic ground of the New Testament, the transformation of New Testament scholarship entailed by this realization did not occur until the end of the nineteenth century, but already the original apocalyptic ground of Jesus and of primitive Christianity was profoundly recovered and renewed in the radically new imaginative vision of Blake, just as it was in the radically new philosophical thinking of Hegel.

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.

Couples with contradictory visions of life must cope with this conflict as well as learn how to compensate for the lack of sharing in the philosophical - religious area.

This is not something the atheists of earlier ages would have been very likely to say, if only because they still lived in a culture whose every dimension (artistic, philosophical, ethical, social, cosmological) was shaped by a religious vision of the world.

In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that tradition.

According to Nussbaum, Nehru may have been good at building formal institutions, but it was Gandhi who gave a spiritual and philosophical basis to democracy in India by calling «all Indians to a higher vision of themselves, getting people to perceive the dignity of each human being.»

These include a Catholic mind that takes seriously Adam Smith's economic and philosophical insights; the affirmation that markets must be grounded upon particular moral, political, and legal habits and institutions; the attention to how awareness of the reality of sin should incubate us against economic utopianism; and, perhaps above all, the sustained effort to locate democratic capitalism within a vision of God and man, thereby giving it genuine theological meaning.

The Foundations then, is as Hegelian as the Manuscripts and in the light of that it is impossible to maintain that only Marx's early writings are of philosophical interest and that he lost the humanist vision in the later writings.

It's funny that creatures such as ourselves» forked radishes, cousins to the ant, the sparrow, and the orangutan» are yet capable of ratiocination, and in his philosophical tales McCall Smith deftly exploits the comic potential of that incongruity even as he argues for a certain vision of the examined life.

Tomasi tries to deflect worries about capitalism in practice by claiming the high ground of ideal theory: the philosophical choice between free market fairness and its alternatives ultimately rests not on empirical and feasibility concerns, but rather on which vision of justice is most compelling at a moral level.

A dystopic vision of the present, a philosophical examination of justice and punishment, and perhaps the bleakest vision of optimism ever filmed.

Today, I want to set aside for the moment philosophical arguments about the federal role, and talk about the design problems of NCLB, and why it's essential that any vision for reauth steer clear of repeating those.

Dr. Siva Kumari, the first female director of the International Baccalaureate Organization, discussed the IB's philosophical heritage, its work today with students, and her vision for its future role in the world.

Combining great vision like Blake's, a Dickinsonian philosophical introspection, and a richly modern sensuality, this selection demonstrates the full range of Graham's poetic gifts.

... 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.

Though I may not have played every all - star game of 2015, I know the unified strength of Bloodborne's nightmare - slaying action, frightful artistic vision and lofty philosophical underpinnings places it highly among them, if not eclipses them altogether (I still read reviews, y ’ know).

Hulusi's messianic artistic vision is poetic yet critically observant as it lays out a new way of understanding the philosophical implications of our post political age.

A complex experiment in the realm of science fiction, the work weaves histories of imperialism, current day myths, and visions of the future with the philosophical and technological devices of their representation.

There, together with all the phases of the graphic creation — objects, furniture, audiovisuals, actions and tableaux vivant — there are visions and obsessions filled with philosophical, historical and artistic instances mixed with events, circumstances and coincidences by which the artificer likes to be surprised.

In addition, they teach exhibition history, introducing art from the angle of exhibitions — their philosophical underpinnings and their impact on the vision and administration of new spaces and institutions.

The work presents a philosophical discourse of vision and presence, confounding the logical notion of subject and object with a disjunctive sense of singular spaciousness.

Perhaps best known as the futuristic vision behind projects like the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka and the Kyoto Station Building, Hiroshi Hara turned literary, philosophical and theoretical texts — ranging from the Chinese classic Zhuangzi and the Greek Odyssey, to mathematical treatises by Leibniz and Poincaré, and from Kafka's The Castle to TS Eliot's «The Waste Land» and Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad — into the basis for conceptual architectural / meta - physical sketches on sheets of ethereal tracing paper that covered the walls of the museum.

The arguments have deeper psychological underpinnings, philosophical and ideological implications, and social subtexts about public rights versus private goods, the human right to water, free markets, the appropriate role of governments, and conflicting visions of the future.»

Putting aside the relative paucity of Dolby Vision Blu - ray discs, this would seem to be more down to product development cycles and timing rather than any PS4 Pro-style philosophical entrenchment.

As clients decide which process (or another process such as mediation or co-mediation) is right for them, I think it is important for them to spend time thinking about the overall culture and philosophy of the processes available to them in order to make an informed decision, making sure their vision of the divorce matches the philosophical framework of the divorce process they choose.