Sentences with phrase «specific philosophical views»

Maimonides is the first of them to ascribe specific philosophical views to Job and to the other speakers in the dialogue.

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Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal view of the world, perhaps more than any specific philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

The question if and, if so, how the construction of mental scenarios is linked to a specific «autonoetic» form of consciousness is particularly interesting from the philosophical point of view.