Sentences with phrase «philosophy than an action»

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Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

However Ritschlianism was already giving way to the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose philosophy of religion centred in a decided preference for cultic experience over ethical action, and whose historical reconstruction saw primitive Christianity orientated like other Hellenistic religions to the cult's dying and rising Lord, rather than to the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount.

Both Marxism and pragmatism, along with more recent analytic philosophies of action, help to make sure that the other moment of action or praxis in the self's essential structure will be brought out no less effectively than the moment of existence or self - understanding on which existentialist philosophy so sharply focuses.

If you saw the trailer and are expecting a pure action movie, you'll be disappointed as the movie is more science fiction and philosophy rather than action or thriller.

We not only believe that our clients deserve the very best legal counsel available — we have worked diligently for nearly 150 years to ensure that this is more than just a statement, but rather, it is a philosophy in action.

Defensive driving is a philosophy more than a specific list of actions.