Sentences with phrase «standpoint of»

Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist.

Liberals are critical of free markets, finding them suspect from the standpoint of justice and calling for redress by way of government regulation, taxation and spending.

The Pope would scarcely have dared risk the enmity of the most powerful monarch in Europe for what was from the standpoint of canon law a dubious act.

It remains for it to be found valid from the standpoint of religious behavior» (PR, I, 201 - 2).

It is a general feature of our knowledge, that we are insistently aware of important truths; and yet that the only formulations of these truths which we are able to make presuppose a general standpoint of conceptions which may have to be modified.

«From the standpoint of eternity,» he goes on, nothing concrete or particular can be seen, only eternal necessities, and these are all abstract.

That is what we mean by God when approached from the standpoint of experience.

The 13 standpoint of Domingo Bañez OP (1528 - 1604), and his followers is that God foresees all hypothetical future events and premoves the free will to a course of action, calling certain to blessedness and giving them the grace necessary.

My purpose in this paper is to state and discuss several criticisms of process philosophy that are raised or that can be raised from the standpoint of Christian faith.1

The standpoint of the old materialism is «civil» society; the standpoint of the new is human society, or socialized humanity.

The critical reader will observe here (and over and over again throughout the Old Testament story) a logical contradiction, an item suspicious, if not incredible, if judged from the standpoint of factual probability.

From the standpoint of process thought, this evolutionary development can be interpreted along a dimensional scale of increasing conceptual autonomy or abstractiveness.

My intention is to use structuralism for determining the dynamics of actions and persons within the texts and also the relationships between the texts and then to interpret them from the standpoint of Jungian psychology.

A narrative of a Lenten meditation in poetic form written from the standpoint of the apostle Thomas: And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years ago.

From the standpoint of the «orders of creation,» both the Bible and anthropology agree in asserting the primacy of the family among all social relations.

From the standpoint of the Socratic thought every point of departure in time is eo ipso accidental, an occasion, a vanishing moment.

Another version of this objection to process philosophy from the standpoint of Christian faith concludes that God can not be identified with any natural process, because man can make any natural vitality subservient to his own ends.

And why can «nothing concrete or eternal be seen» from the standpoint of eternity?

But the mechanistic view of nature in deism can itself be challenged, as we will see, from the standpoint of post-Newtonian science.

What he did gives us was one long argumenturn ad hominem attacking all those who might have serious reservations about not only the war's morality but even its prudentiality from a standpoint of American self - interest.

The standpoint of national religion appears in the utterances in which God's interests are identified with those of the people, when for example Israel's war is assumed to be God's war, Israel's honor God's honor, Israel's country God's country.

The standpoint of cultic religion appears not only in the legislation for temple and sacrifice, but also in all the ritual regulations which burdened the life of the individual.

Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour on the body, which all dislike.

So I'm approaching this from a standpoint of compassion.

He analyzes the disciples» bickering about who should be the greatest among them (Luke 9:46) from the standpoint of advantage, of personal gain, and of power.

Yahweh had always been conceived as powerful and ruthless in war — even brutal from the standpoint of later ideals — but he had been virile, austere, and chaste.

From the standpoint of the history of Christianity, the nineteenth century was the Protestant century.

A more radical doctrine of creation is not incompatible with a process cosmology, however; God can be represented as a creator ex nihilo that, from the standpoint of the harmonies of the world, is similar to Plato's Form of the Good.22

From the standpoint of psychology, as well as from that of microphysics, Whitehead's conceptual system seems to have difficulties that may not have been apparent some years ago.6

For Niebuhr the agape of the Gospel, though symbolized by powerlessness in history, leads to involvement in the power conflicts of men for the sake of our humanity which can be rightly understood only from the standpoint of agape.

And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.

Other scholars have seen this same issue, although no one, to my knowledge, has fully dealt with it from the general standpoint of Whitehead's metaphysics.

The one whom they thus interpreted, in various categories of first - century thought, is the one whom we also must interpret — but equally from the standpoint of faith, not proof.

The article as a whole, but particularly the next two sections constitute my argument for this highly unorthodox (but, from the standpoint of the founding texts of the great monotheistic traditions, profoundly orthodox) combination.

From the standpoint of our own concerns, the crucial point of this passage is its assertion that the Great Ultimate is a vibratory movement, wherein movement itself has a limit in which it is transformed to tranquillity which returns to the origin of assertive movement again.

We can look at this from the standpoint of: If Jesus was the redeemer and god incarnate, what would we expect to see:

I hope in the immediate future to embody the standpoint of these volumes in a more complete metaphysical study.

A sentence expressing the concept of God as having primordial and consequent natures has been added to a passage that had been written from the standpoint of a different concept of God, namely, the concept of a non-temporal God found in Process 7, 32, 40 and 93.

Hartshorne treats the matter almost exclusively from the standpoint of logica docens.

is that you're arguing from the standpoint of exclusive premises.

Those passages that appear in Process 3l, 164, and 257,27 are so named because they max, but only may, include a component written from the standpoint of the concept of God as conceptual valuation of eternal objects, although the concept of God as primordial and consequent natures is obviously present in them.28 As a result of this, their compositional and conceptual status is too ambiguous for any solid conclusions to be based on them.

The bulk of Process 32 has been written from the standpoint of the concept of a non-temporal God, whereas the last sentence is an expression of the concept of God in two natures, primordial and consequent.

That is, he discusses apriori truths from the standpoint of their having been discovered, where the only problem is to make them clear.

We can see the necessity of this categorical obligation to preserve individuality if we consider the standpoint of one who is the receiver of love from another.

On each occasion, Whitehead inserted a passage written from the standpoint of the later concept of God in order to reinterpret a passage initially written from the standpoint of his earlier concept such that the subject of the resulting passage would shift from God as the non-temporal actual entity to the primordial nature and, more widely, to God as primordial and consequent natures.

Note, third, that the limited standpoint of the earlier works on the philosophy of nature — The Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Concept of Nature, and The Principle of Relativity — is to be embodied in the more comprehensive standpoint of the later works on metaphysics.

The foregoing account of the relation of the past to the present will appear quite unacceptable if judged from the standpoint of a Newtonian conception of causal relationships.

Dreyfus's own critique is made from the standpoint of phenomenology, but his philosophical perspective and that of a number of other critics of artificial intelligence is similar in some ways to Hall's.

Otherwise, we would have to cling to the a priori notion that Whitehead wrote Process and Reality from the standpoint of the concept of God developed in the last part of the book, and posit that he would have written true statements in some places in the book and false statements in others.

The problem is that these particular passages have been either neglected by Whitehead's main exegetes or interpreted from the standpoint of a matrix or grid based on the last chapter in Whitehead's magnum opus.