Sentences with phrase «purely philosophical reasons»

But, of course, there have been purely philosophical reasons for making this metaphysical change as well.

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In his Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy, Etienne Gilson considers how medieval Catholic philosophers would have regarded «an exercise of reason that would be purely philosophical and systematically withdrawn from the influence of faith.»

But it is the business of philosophy to ascertain that which is purely necessary and universal, and any limitation placed upon philosophical reason ultimately appears to be arbitrary.

He also says that, for any knowledge of God beyond «the bare outline of the dimensions of his being,» we must look to empirical science and theology.6 This, says he, is the reason why purely philosophical theology can say nothing about such pivotal religious doctrines as sin, grace, and forgiveness.