Sentences with phrase «philosophizing in»

What is needed today far more than a metaphysical system is a style of philosophizing in the process vein, which is at the same time faithful to Whitehead's basic inspiration and still creative enough to face new challenges.

Whitehead's strategy is a classic example of philosophizing in the shadow of the theory of evolution.

Pessimism, while retaining a linear account of time and history, denies this premise, or finds no evidence for it and asks us to philosophize in its absence»

It is now getting to be time, however, to recognize that it is not only possible, but philosophically desirable, to philosophize in the Whiteheadian mode without falling back on the notion of God» (WCC 379).

The philosopher, even the Christian one, has a distinct task; I am not inclined to say that he brackets what he has heard and what he believes, for how could he philosophize in such a state of abstraction with respect to what is essential?

As Mr. Dobson philosophizes in voice - over, we see stunningly beautiful images of the planets, stars and galaxies he describes.

Not exact matches

Instead of philosophizing about the future to design it or meet it halfway, build it by solving real problems that are right in front of us.

Philosophizing with a hammer In his 1889 book Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche philosophized about challenging — or taking a «hammer» to — our idols.

To hear Hart tell it, Rand had no more than two arrows in her quiver: strenuous romance writing and hectoring, and inadequate philosophizing.

Karl Jaspers put it beautifully: «The spirit of meditation, the capacity for penetrating self - analysis, the way of unbiased thinking, an openness for all substantial possibilities — all of this can not be directly taught, but it can be awakened and trained in the comprehension of great philosophizing.

At about the same time (ca. 1304 - 1307) Dante also completed the first four books of what was to have been a fifteen - book encyclopedic treatise, written in the vernacular, on the nature of philosophizing.

I want to provide a little Protestant push - back (against Alexis, not Peter), and to expose a little of my own academic work in Postmodern Conservative, since I actually do not spend all my time philosophizing about pop music!

Von Braun's philosophizing is based on what is to me the more reasonable thought that there are no other really brainy beings out there, that we are in crucial respects on our own in the cosmos.

A good example of the type of philosophizing that Rorty rejects can be found in the tortured path of conceptual analysis followed by Peters and Hirst in their quest for necessary and sufficient conditions for the correct use of the term «education.»

While this last argument has a distinguished pedigree, Stark puts the case in boldest terms: «All that 18th - century philosophizing on things like individualism and liberty was coming straight out of 1,800 years of Christianity.»

One can use the expressions «Philosophy After Whitehead» or «Post-Whiteheadian philosophizing» to characterize the relationship of the work of some philosophers to the categoreal insights presented in Process and Reality, but in my own case I feel that these expressions connote a looser relationship than that which characterizes my own orientation.

Some may assert that although Madison's formulations appear to be Christian, in reality they stand as typical Enlightenment philosophizing.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.&raquIn the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.&raquin free - floating subjectivity.»

«In a great act of philosophizing even the finger - tips think — but they no longer feel.»

Both the philosophizing and the religious person wonder at phenomena, says Buber, but «the one neutralizes his wonder in ideal knowledge, while the other abides in that wonder.»

There is a need, however, that in the process the existentialists» insights into the human condition fill the psychological gaps in Whitehead's philosophizing.

He doesn't mean in terms of philosophizing about the afterlife.

In fact, it is necessary not to do so, if we want to philosophize well, for inattention to spatial concepts may interfere with both the theoretical consistency and the practical efficacy of process philosophy.

The confusion arises here because one assumes that philosophizing occurs in Western culture without benefit of the Judaic - Christian mythos.

Martha Nussbaum has devoted the greater part of her career to the rehabilitation of poetry for philosophical purposes» or, if that seems to make poetry merely instrumental to the greater task of philosophizing, Nussbaum can put it in another, more evenhanded way:

But, since I accept it as binding even on a philosophizing theologian, I hope it is at least clear, especially to my esteemed teacher, that I have in my own way tried to be faithful to it.

As I wrote a while back, in talking about God, we are like an oyster on the bottom of the sea trying to philosophize about ballerina knees.

Beyond question, the animating spirit of the full range of his philosophizing has been essentially religious; and he has once suggested that philosophy is «the rational element in religion.

But many of the questions about which men used to philosophize have now become disciplines of study in their own right.

Philosophy has aided theology a good deal within this century in helping it to examine its own language critically, and there is still an important place for philosophizing about the nature of religious experience, and the reality of religious truth.

Processists are concerned with issues of priority and significance, of interpersonal action and interaction, and of larger human concerns in a way that is generally — and rightly — seen as central in the Continental tradition of philosophizing

Whitehead is as «post-evolutionary» in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs.18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies; indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories.

A philosophical classic should contribute in a significant way not only to the problems of his time, but also to our everyday philosophizing.

It reduces to very small proportions, almost negligible, in fact, the importance of the element of chance mutation, on which R. A. Fisher on the one hand and Jacques Monod on the other have reared such super-structures of rather emotional philosophizing.

There is a question missing that should be right at the top, for everything else emanates from the answer: What if the church would start to preach and teach the unpolluted Scriptures in their true and accurate contexts, instead of the philosophized version that the world at large has labeled man - made religious myths?

In 1921, he wrote The Heart of Nature; or The Quest for Natural Beauty which is broken up into alternate chapters of description and philosophizing.

He told me, when he was seventy - five, that he had been philosophizing, in an amateurish way, since he was twenty - three.

According to Marx and Teilhard, the socialization of consciousness will dissolve the barriers that separate physical and mental labor, allowing the Marxian individual of the future to hunt in the morning and philosophize after dinner, and enabling the Teilhardian «man in the street» to do research in physics or biology.

Laurens van der Post philosophized on berbere in 1970: «Berbere gave me my first inkling of the essential role played by spices in the more complex forms of Ethiopian cooking....

And in a week of unpredictable weather and unpredictable skiing, Lindh's Alaska brand of homespun philosophizing could stand as well for everyone in the Alpine Olympic environment, even the relaxed Mssr.

Jesus, this is an mma forum online where people come to burn time and talk shit about the sport they like... Then you show up, trying to philosophize life lessons... If anything I think its you who's in the wrong place and wrong frame of mind.

DeFrancisco chided them for merely «philosophizing» and not staying to hear the concerns from those in the industry who were due to speak next.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

Whilst Baby Boomers waved Give Peace A Chance placards and Generation Xers philosophized about world hunger whilst watching The Breakfast Club, Millennials found themselves reared on rapid - fire Internet connections, waving handhelds, pressured to succeed academically and at work, wrapped up in a world of virtual relationships via social networking, and with little time for a real social life.

Long before Star Trek, and truth be told, actually better made than ALL of them, comes this opportunity to cinematically philosophize about the frailty of the human condition while wearing color coordinated jumpsuits, holding a ray gun in one hand and some scientist's half - naked daughter in the other, while backed by weird electronic noise (naturally)- or Manifest Destiny in Deep Space.

As in all Godard's best work, precise meaning is subsumed in an exhilarating tide of sound and light, impish provocations and inspired philosophizing.

thewlis» mad philosophizing antihero is brilliant and there is a kind of harsh beauty in this unflinching brutality.

This film maker's supremely tactile, sensual style and his taste for exoticism are captivatingly on display in Stealing Beauty, even if the film's philosophizing sometimes lacks the intellectual heft of a cotton puff.

Your response to all this depends extremely heavily on how much philosophizing and pretty pictures you're willing to accept in lieu of a story.

Indeed, Ted's search in the Bible for a moral code and means of philosophizing his «romantic illusion problem,» and his agonized indecision between «homely» and beautiful women, draws him strikingly close to Jean - Louis Trintignant in My Night at Maud's.