Sentences with phrase «philosophical works as»

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But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

Even Grondin, who has read Gadamer deeply (he is the French translator of Truth and Method), has written that in Gadamer's work the word ««ontological» is consistently used as a synonym for «philosophical» and «universal.

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.

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.

Holloway, «Slim» to most of his friends, spent his whole life in pastoral work but also managed, despite many obstacles and difficulties, to single - mindedly leave a far - sighted and remarkable theological and philosophical legacy for this millennium, surely the millennium of the harmony of Science and Religion, in which Christ is seen as the Master of both.

Both broad streams of traditionalist responses to the contemporary climate of oppression — those who say our troubles are an extension of liberal principles and those who say they are a betrayal of those principles — tend to jump too quickly from theory to practice, and so to treat the lived experience of our society as a kind of working out of philosophical premises.

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.

He can and should refuse to accept as relevant to his philosophical work, any data that do not appear to him to be generally accessible.

It is to be hoped that as the centre develops in its work, so it will broaden its outlook so that the natural sciences, the single most influential strand of philosophical thought in modern times, is not left out of the conversation.

This source of the questions does not lessen the value of their work as philosophy, but it does mean that their philosophical work was a part of their work as theologians.

However, I will mention that in addition to his extensive corpus in philosophical theology and his vast work as organizer of conferences and editor of the writings of others, he has become the leading spokesperson for the 9/11 truth movement.

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.

Much of my work in Character and the Christian Life (Trinity University Press, 1975) is an attempt to articulate a philosophical psychology (the self as agent) sufficient to support these claims for the importance of character in theological ethics.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Then too, while the word «act» as a philosophical technical term refers primarily, as I have indicated, to the «doing,» «moving,» «working,» of an entity which has the inherent power and is the spring or source of that «doing» or «moving,» the word is readily used in an abstract sense, and also derivatively as pertaining to other than these entities.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

These would indicate the direction the work takes more than Ethics, because traditional approaches of philosophical ethics are rejected as unreal from the beginning.

Although profoundly philosophical, the whole thrust of Holloway's work was to move away from the perception of truth as abstract and notional.

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.»

Earlier related works include «Freedom As Perfection: Whitehead, Thomas and Augustine» Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, XXXVI (1962), 134 - 142; «Whitehead's Challenge to Theistic Realism,» The New Scholasticism, XXXVIII, 1 (January 1964), 1 - 21; and «Is God Really Related to This World?»

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

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.

The very first sentence of Whitehead's major philosophical work, Process and Reality, shows clearly that Whitehead presupposed a situation such as I have just described.

Hegel's Phenomenology is often judged to be the most revolutionary of all philosophical works, and it is clearly revolutionary in understanding consciousness itself as a consistently and comprehensively evolving consciousness, evolving from the pure immediacy of sense - certainty to absolute knowing, and this evolution is internal and historical at once.

I have ventured to dedicate to him this introduction to the Christian use of process - thought, as a token of my gratitude for his help and also for the enormous resource that I, with many others, have found in his long years of work in the development of this philosophical conceptuality.

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

Bultmann depends upon the metaphysical - phenomenological realism of M. Heidegger, known as Existentialphilosophie, Gogarten upon the historical realism of E. Grisebach, the author of the critical work entitled Gegenwart, and Brunner, partly under the inspiration of Gogarten, seems to give room to the ethical realism of the famous Jewish philosopher - theologian Martin Buber, author of a philosophical essay entitled I and Thou.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

The wider philosophical conceptuality that includes them is that one known today as Process Thought, with which I have been working for more than forty years of academic life.

In heeding the work of Dewey, the early Chicago theologians did not think of themselves as proceeding in a particularly philosophical vein, however.

Thus, in considering the influence of philosophical resources upon the development of theology in America, we do well in Dewey's case not to emphasize (as do most commentators) A Common Faith, but rather to attend to the earlier «nontheological» works: Studies in Logical Theory and How We Think.

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

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.

Waddington once told me that he became a developmental biologist as a result of having read all the philosophical works of A. N. Whitehead as an undergraduate in Cambridge University.

Yet we reiterate that throughout the earlier period in question — from 1935, say, to 1960 — a few theologians such as Canon Raven in England had continued along the lines laid down in the twenties, while Professor Hartshorne and some others in the United States (notably E. E. Harris, in such books as Revelation Through Reason) were carrying on the work on the strictly philosophical side.

He touches these questions anew, insofar as they had already delivered important problems in his earlier works on pure mathematics (philosophical problems in UA, MC, and PM; historical matters in MC; and applied mathematics in his earliest scientific publications).

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

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

A prolific writer on the theological, philosophical and ethical issues related to the faith - science debate, Jaki's work can safely be summarised as the intentional repudiation of the modern, secularist agenda which seeks to place science and Christian faith in radical, philosophical and historical opposition.

Each individual work bears the hallmarks of an historical context, which embeds a complex narrative incorporating literary and philosophical references as well as visual word games.

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).

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

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.

In my personal opinion, our job as scientists is to try to figure out how the world works, not to tell it how to work based on our philosophical preconceptions.

Jessica is highly interested in the healing arts and aims to provide a space in her class that will encourage integration of mind, body and spirit through vinyasa, breath work and meditation, as well as spiritual and philosophical discussion.

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.

I would also describe myself as hard working, supportive of others and philosophical about life.

The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.

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.

Indeed, the most substantial and clear dialogue in the film comes from a drunken party guest (Will Oldham) whose philosophy could be embraced as the crux of the film or dismissed as philosophical rambling — the film works with either take.