Sentences with phrase «providing philosophical categories»

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As earlier with regard to poetic discourse on the objective side of the idea of revelation, so too on the subjective side, the experience of testimony can only provide the horizon for a specifically religious and biblical experience of revelation, without our ever being able to derive that experience from the purely philosophical categories of truth as manifestation and reflection as testimony.

For centuries Jewish thought has attempted to adapt itself to foreign philosophical categories, and Wyschogrod's bold return to biblical sources provides a platform upon which to critique even such a revered figure as Maimonides.

Furthermore, the fact that Whitehead's theory of perception provides a philosophical context and categories which are consistent with these aspects of experience makes it more likely that women's experience will be credited with contributing important and unique insights about experience which have heretofore been overlooked or regarded as insignificant.