Sentences with phrase «philosophical work»

There can be no objection in principle to this undertaking, but historically the greatest philosophical work of theologians has never been done in this way.

For this reader at least, this book shows above all that there is great need of careful, clarifying philosophical work by theologians and scientists before any ambitious «synthesis» is attempted.

In doing this they did strictly philosophical work, appealing for justification only to the norms of philosophy.

A challenging and deeply philosophical work unlike any other.

Rare indeed in philosophical works are passages like the one in the City of God where Augustine marvels at how some people can wiggle their ears, others can perfectly mimic the voices of other men, and some can even «produce musical sounds from their behind»!

Rene Descartes's major philosophical work Principia Philosophiae was also essentially completed in 1642 (he delayed publication until the work was translated into Latin «to help it gain a better reputation among the Schoolmen»).

Swinburne does devote four pages to the miracles of Jesus as evidence for Christianity, a welcome departure from the noncommittal character of most philosophical work in this area.

Truth and Method is «one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century» because it leads us where the modern mind» «which as a matter of fact is in a hopeless impasse,» notes Gadamer» will not go, resists going with every thought, yet absolutely needs to go.

Some of his earlier work (about 31 volumes which he co-authored) contributed to the creation of the Large Electron - Positron Collider at CERN, but he has moved toward more philosophical work of late, with a Ph.D. in philosophy from St. Louis University.

Modern Schoolman, Short notice of DR. «Bibliography of Current Philosophical Works Published in the U. 5.

I pointed out to him that in his earlier philosophical work he argued that the mere concept of God was incoherent, so if he was now a theist, he must reject huge chunks of his old philosophy.

Moreover, the same is true for the interpretation of any other philosophical work by Whitehead.

Furthermore, Whitehead's most important philosophical work grew out of his Gifford Lectures, a lectureship in natural theology.

Many, many great scientists are writing books on their activities, but books which are in fact philosophical works... Science produces metaphysical questions and, in fact, great scientists tend to solve these problems... The problem is to believe that these solutions belong to science, or to believe that a philosophical solution is given immediately by science.

Smart philosophical works on religion and science, including Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies, demonstrate as well that the notion of an opposition between science and religion is false.

According to Zupko, Buridan's major complaint was not so much with Nicholas» skeptical conclusions as with his temerity in trying to interpret Aristotle's philosophical works as a theologian.

The work of the normative fields is, as Schleiermacher said, basically philosophical work.

Thomas» philosophical work enabled him to conclude that some of the doctrines that were given in revelation are also susceptible of philosophical demonstration.

After graduating and publishing two successful philosophical works, Nash penned The Second Best Bed in 1946.

The «Symposium» is a classic philosophical work by Plato in which a group of men, including Socrates, round off a banquet by competing to see who can give the best off - the - cuff speech about love.

Marquis de Sade is teased to have some role in the game, which should be interesting for players who are unfamiliar with his erotic philosophical works.

Those impatient to see Adrian Piper's first American museum exhibition in more than 10 years at the Museum of Modern Art this spring can get a taste of the Conceptual artist's bold philosophical work in an exhibition that opened Thursday at Lévy Gorvy Gallery.

Becoming Imperceptible takes its name from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, with whose philosophical works Pendleton has long engaged, and positions Pendleton's practice as a kind of counter-portraiture.

«Thus then,» Royce concluded in his first major philosophical work, The Religious Aspect of Philosophy (1885), «we are driven to assume an infinite thought, judging truth and error.»

London About Blog Bidushi focuses on the scientific understanding of meditation as it grows, rather than on the substantial body of religious and philosophical work on the subject.

Comparatively little of Aron's writing, however, is available in English, and this new collection of interviews, Thinking Politically, serves as a welcome supplement to his more philosophical works.

Although Griffin's discussion focuses on my own work, many of his points are applicable, more or less directly, to the broad physicalist framework within which much of current philosophical work in philosophy of mind is being carried on.

Our main aim is to free ourselves from the restricting institutions and orthodoxes of the academic world, and thereby to encourage important philosophical work to develop.

They is nearly all of them notmuchers and squeakpips,» says the BFG in Roald Dahl's most philosophical work, and, well, that's about accurate I guess, and I'm not sure how I feel about exposing an eight - year - old to this kind of truth.

As that great philosophical work, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, teaches us: it's not the answer that's important, it's the question.

Similarly, philosophical works by Aristotle and Plato are generally considered as the best examples of traditional writing because the same is with universal appeal in the post modern context.

I was in my late 20s, early 30s when I began to read some philosophical works that challenged my constructed world view.

In his philosophical works Edward Holloway suggests a slight realignment of detail within the realist tradition in the light of modern insights into material reality.

It is not transcendence to a world of pure objectivity within which academic and philosophical work can be supposed to take place.

Third, while we admittedly have not read Mr. Wieseltier's philosophical works, we can not imagine what this has to do with Kant not looking bad.

This has been shown in the philosophical work of Charles Hartshorne.