Sentences with phrase «rendered by a philosophy»

The fourth invaluable service rendered by philosophy concerns the defence of the faith.

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``... those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy, the most sublime & benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man, endeavored to crush your well earnt, & well deserved fame.»

Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy of philosophy to explain evil, they resist any tendency to «explain evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render evil in our world terribly real to us.

In brief, philosophy and literature were different means by which the same goal was sought: eudaimonia, a key word often translated as «happiness» but more accurately rendered (by Nussbaum among many others) as «human flourishing.»

So my criticism is really itself an hypothesis: do the readers feel as I do that ambiguity, suffering and perishing have a more substantial place in human experience than is rendered by Hartshorne's philosophy?

The existentialists make an ethical obligation of the notion that death is all and that «living in the face of death means living such fashion that life can be broken off at any moment and not be rendered meaningless by such an accident,» to quote Glenn Gray's «The Problem of Death in Modern Philosophy» (in The Modern Vision of Death, edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. [John Knox, 1967)-RRB-.