Sentences with phrase «philosophical work by»

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.

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No «Magic» in scinece ID proponernts Behe and Dembski have been thoroughly disenfranchised by the science community because their work is philosophical religious garbage designed only for the gullible and unreasoned.

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.

Noddings» answers to these questions have won her praise in feminist and leftwing circles; her book is hailed by Rosemary Ruether and Daniel Maguire as an «important contribution to philosophical ethics» and a work that should be «significant» in theological seminaries.

If writing a technical philosophical or theological essay, I should wish here to urge how much work needs to be done by way of analysis on the notion of dependence.

I have been influenced by those philosophical theologians (Donald Evans and James William McClendon, Jr.) who have used the work of John Austin to remind us that religious discourse has the characteristics of performative rather than constantive utterance.

Science doesn't do philosophical prior assumptions, it works by posterior testing and updates.

Even throughout his period of theological and philosophical formation, when he produced important translations and studies of works by Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, among others, he also wrote about drama and dramatists.

Feminists began their critical work in response to insults and injustices generated — to paraphrase Sobrino — by scientific and philosophical understandings that «explained» and «gave meaning to existing realities» of exclusion, especially of women.

The third trend is characterized by (1) a clearer methodological consciousness concerning the field, purpose, and method of the sociology of religion; (2) a profounder understanding of the nature of religious communion; (3) a rapprochement between students of religion from theological and philosophical points of view, and of students of society.6 Outstanding are the works of Raoul de la Grasserie and H. Pinard de la Boullaye, S. J., of Roger Bastide and Robert Will.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

«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 church must be ready to witness to the lordship of Christ by cooperating with men of goodwill who are genuinely concerned to seek better ways of living and working — no matter what their political, social, or philosophical convictions.

Response to his philosophy by Christian theologians followed soon upon the publication of his early philosophical works, Science and the Modern World in 1925 and Religion in the Making in 1926.

He offers his work as a «first step toward reclaiming natural - law doctrine as an exegetical, and not solely philosophical, project» that is, «natural law» as understood by the Christian tradition prior to the modern reconfiguration of natural law.»

To help point the way out of the problem I will turn to the writings of Whitehead (particularly his later works), drawing from his work certain conclusions which, while not explicitly stated by him may nevertheless be said to follow from his overall philosophical scheme.

In addition, Whitehead was willing to work within a philosophical framework without being imprisoned by it.

They did so partly by offering more radical definitions of the independence of self and national identity, a development whose literary - philosophical correlative and sequel could be found in the life and work of Emerson, his «Transcendental» brethren, and their Romantic and existentialist disciples, from Walt Whitman to Henry Miller and Norman Mailer.

Called «The Religion of Healthy - Mindedness» by William James in his classic work, Varieties of Religious Experience, New Thought is a spiritual and philosophical movement associated with the founding of a number of ideologically - related churches in the late 19th and early 20th century United States.

Throughout Hartshorne's work love has been the standard by which decisions are best determined, yet he fails to think as broadly on abortion as he does on most other philosophical questions.

Indeed, says Nussbaum, any philosophical examples that were to develop «the particularity, the emotive appeal, the absorbing plottedness, the variety and indeterminacy of good fiction» would by that very development become works of literature.

I understand by this the incessant work of philosophical discourse to put itself into a relation of proximity with kerygmatic and theological discourse.

For an early work exploring the new physics and influenced by process thought, see Capek, Milic, The Philosophical Impact of the Contemporary Physics (New York: Van Nostrand Press, 1961).

When and how this takes place is not as clearly worked out when both the philosophical and biblical traditions are put side by side,

8 Whitehead's chief philosophical work, Process end Reality (New York, 1929), will hereafter be cited by the abbreviation «PR».

In 1922, some nine years after Einstein had published his first paper on General Relativity, Whitehead was compelled by the differences he had with Einstein's view to come forward with his own work, The Principle of Relativity, in which he formulated a theory of gravitation more in keeping with his own philosophical outlook.

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.

In his reflections upon Valéry's work, Derrida contends that the philosopher gives a formality to philosophical language by forging a connection with natural language that allows mere ciphers to resemble the thing in itself (MP 293).

The brute fact of this inconsistency pinpoints how extremely dangerous Ford's hypothesis really is; for it leads to a basic interpretative strategy that is diametrically opposed to the one required by Whitehead's many statements to the effect that his books are intended to supplement one another's omissions and compressions and that, consequently, his system of thought, including his basic metaphysical system, must be carefully gleaned from all his philosophical works.

In the discussion that follows, one work by each writer is assumed to embody his respective position: Blackmur's Form and Value in Modern Poetry (FVMP), Sartre's Literary and Philosophical Essays (LPE), Brooks's The Well - Wrought Urn (WWU), and Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas (AI).

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

All three were deeply shaped by Christianity in their childhood and youth; all wrestled with Jesus Christ in their philosophical work and attributed a central role to him; all rejected the orthodoxies of their times; all contributed to the refashioning of Christianity.

(2) Although Whitehead's broader philosophical framework aids in an analysis of Deutsch by providing a richer, supportive philosophical context for evaluation of the Deutschian response, it is, likewise, aided by Deutsch's work.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

Where my philosophical work is poor it is to be judged simply as poor philosophy and not justified by my Christian convictions.

This is suggested by the work of Milic Capek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics [D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1961], and Adolf Grunbaum, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time [Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1963]-RRB-

To turn attention away from these ideas because they are philosophical is to allow them a tyranny over theological work that can be dispelled only by critical and self - conscious reflection about them.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

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).

While the work probably won't advance current models, it does show that some of the philosophical conundrums posed by cosmology are surprisingly pervasive.

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

Its objective is to encourage work of great value to humanity, of a mainly scientific, educational or artistic nature, and to reward such work by means of prizes or study grants, excluding any profit motive and regardless of political, trade union, philosophical or religious convictions.

Choose any inspirational book or philosophical work (like The Enchiridion by Epictetus or Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle) to start learning about yourself and the world.

While I found it interesting to form my own rationale as to what the film is about, by the same token, I often am reluctant to actually recommend films that don't work on fundamental narrative terms without having to read personal philosophical theories into them.

The name Terrence Malick above the title on «The New World» in 2006 certainly brought with it a certain group of expectations for those of us who loved «Badlands,» «Days of Heaven» and «The Thin Red Line,» but a decade later, released by Criterion this week in a gorgeous three - disc Blu - ray set, the film now feels almost like a bridge between those early works and his recent trio of introspective, deeply philosophical films: «Tree of Life,» «To the Wonder» and «Knight of Cups.»

The organization has worked to break down barriers between philosophical knowledge and professional life by offering public lectures, workshops and conferences.

CWC Schools» work is undergirded by three philosophical foundations - Understanding, Connection and Diversity - described below.

Philip has left an outstanding body of work: novels such as A Philosophical Investigation and Gridiron, books for which he was selected in 1993 by Granta as...

Frances Morris places Martin's work in the art historical context of the time; art historian Richard Tobin analyzes Martin's painting «The Islands»; conservator Rachel Barker offers the reader a close viewing of «Morning»; curator Lena Fritsch provides a visual biography by comparing photographic portraits of Martin from different periods; and art historian Jacquelynn Baas delves into the spiritual and philosophical beliefs so present in Martin's art, including Platonism, Christian mysticism, Zen Buddhism and Taoism.