Sentences with phrase «reasons than its philosophies»

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Though these times are frustrating for our shareholders — and, remember, that includes all of the portfolio managers — these periods of weak performance have been opportunities for additional investment rather than reasons to give up on our investment philosophy.

Therefore, I felt that my philosophy and theology should not be permitted to separate, but that within their unity it should be possible to affirm the awe - inspiring otherness of God even more uncompromisingly than Barth had done, since he returned to reasoning by analogy.

The fallacy is bound to occur so long as Two is neglected, for the reason that men do not adopt a philosophy because its proofs are beyond question and its conclusions completely satisfactory — this being never the case — but because its proofs seem to them stronger and its conclusions more satisfactory than would be true of what they regard as the alternative.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Rorty's answer is somewhat glib: «The reason I like Hirsch's book better than Bloom's is that it mostly stays away from philosophy and instead asks what concrete institutional factors are responsible for the prevailing cultural illiteracy.

But when I sat back and thought about it, I realized that trying to learn about God through philosophy and reason is not much different than trying to learn about God through nature or conscience.

Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.

Here she encountered pressure to choose: the literary classicists understood their task to be «philological and to some extent aesthetic» rather than philosophical, while the ethical theories she encountered in studying philosophy were in different ways and for different reasons «hostile to literature.»

by a rationally based philosophy which was more comprehensive than anything modernity could offer — reason not primarily as skeptical and analytical but as creative and systematic.

The modest revival of interest in medieval philosophy in the past forty years might augur a change in fortunes for reasoned discussion of how to understand God's role in all three religions, but one finishes these two lucid books far more aware of lost opportunities than of newfound hope.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

The reason for this difficulty, however, is probably more a question of philosophy than a difference of faith.

Bryan sounds at least reasonable when he argues, «If the results of evolution were unimportant, one might require less proof in support of the hypothesis, but before accepting a new philosophy of life, built upon a materialistic foundation, we have reason to demand something more than guesses.»

Under the influence of scientism, the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, modern philosophy and the suspicions cast by social science many intelligent people today suspect that religious symbols are no more than psychic or social «projections.»

For this reason, the great shock to Anglo - American natural theology was Darwinian science rather than critical philosophy.

Wieman's work is primarily philosophy of religion rather than systematic theology, and for this reason his inclusion, too, raises questions.

Everyone knows we need a vieria type player» but who knows more all us football fans or wenger I really ask myself who's rite and it has be wenger it has be he's manager our great club he knows way more than all us but why does he not want a player that gives us strength in midfield somebody help me it has be football reasons he wants pure football players a touch of art a philosophy, Steven nzonzi would be a very good signing for us there's our new viera rite there's.

There are a variety of reasons but one of the most important is the philosophy of «normal birth,» the self - serving idea promoted by midwives that the process of birth is somehow equally or more important than the outcome.

I took a long look at philosophy, even though I knew there was more to life than logic and reason.

Failing to purchase a renters insurance policy because you don't own many valuables is a mistake for two reasons: Almost everyone's personal belongings are worth more than they estimate and this philosophy completely disregards the value in liability and loss of use coverage.

Well, actually the «founders of No Kill» have always been a very select group whose love of all animals gradually but steadily led to the changing mindset and philosophy of saving rather than killing; not nearly enough credit has been given to all the independent and non-profit rescues, adoption groups and especially TNR groups who were promoting and practicing S / N and vaccinations long before low cost S / N clinics became available... such clinics still NOT that readily available in many jurisdictions; as for the veterinary community, for the most part, they were and are a major part of the problem along with their associations which remain regressive with their rather antiquated and self - serving leadership; for decades and even to this day it has long been known that the NUMBER ONE REASON people do not get their animals «fixed» (pet, stray, feral, it doesn't matter) is because of the lack of affordable S / N fees!

Over five years ago, I wrote a blog opining that the reason PETA slaughters virtually every animal it seeks out and «impounds» has more to do with Ingrid Newkirk's dark impulses than with any ideology, philosophy, or belief in overpopulation.

People need to see the bigger picture rather than having partial pressures, dissolution constants, analysis of algorithms or actual science shown to them (the philosophy of science and it's method of logic is as valid to them as inductive reasoning, so that's no good).

There are strong reasons why the material at the head of this post are more important to the Philosophy of Science than the original S09 paper that scored the cover in 2009, but showed a probable over-estimate of warming.

On the other hand, someone so adept at exposing poor or absent scientific reasoning — Goldacre is a physician with a Masters degree in philosophy — should be less naive than he appears to be when it comes to basic copyright law.

Failing to purchase a renters insurance policy because you don't own many valuables is a mistake for two reasons: Almost everyone's personal belongings are worth more than they estimate and this philosophy completely disregards the value in liability and loss of use coverage.