Sentences with phrase «study philosophy as»

Furthermore, he felt that we should study philosophy as much as possible to try to gain necessary insights into yoga.

It should also be of practical use for those studying Philosophy as part of the International Baccalaureate or an introductory Philosophy course at university.

Not exact matches

«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.

Robertson studied as much self - management theory as he could, drawing lessons from a variety of techniques and philosophies.

His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel.

Plus, this is only one study and certainly not a strong enough basis to serve as the foundation for your entire parenting philosophy.

As an investor who studies in great detail the strategies and investment philosophies of the great value investors, I have always been intrigued by the debate of value vs. growth.

Using myself as a case study; it has always been my personal philosophy to keep moving forward regardless of the prevailing circumstances.

Subsequent to graduation, he served as a military intelligence officer overseas and then pursued graduate studies in philosophy in the Ph.D program at The Johns Hopkins University.

Augros, a professor of philosophy at the Center for Higher Studies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifStudies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifstudies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifacient.

In order for you to make the claim that the Bible is a «fictional work,» I must logically deduce that you must have spent years in deep theological study as well as studies in comparative religion and philosophy to make your claim.

Since the philosophy of organism is a study based on general experience, it should come as no surprise that the realization of creativity has not been considered.

The Galileo affair is well worth studying as it raises many problems concerning the relations between theology and science, and the philosophy of scientific discovery [3].

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»

That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

At Oxford, where he studied with R. M. Hare, and then as a professor at Melbourne's Monash University, Singer slightly modified his philosophy into what he calls preference utilitarianism.

Absorbed as he was in his New Testament studies, Bultmann took time off to listen to his colleague Martin Heidegger, who was professor of philosophy at Marburg from 1923 to «28.

I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

4In addition to his article in the present volume, see e.g., «A Whiteheadian Basis for Pannenberg's Theology,» Encounter 38 (1977): 307 - 17; «A Dialogue About Process Philosophy» (with Wolfhart Pannenberg), Encounter 38 (1977): 318 - 24; «God as the Subjectivity of the Future,» Encounter 41 (1980): 287 - 92; «The Divine Activity of the Future,» Process Studies 11/3 (Fall 1981): 169 - 79; and «Creativity in a Future Key,» in New Essays in Metaphysics, ed.

After studying at the City College of New York and Columbia University, he had a distinguished career as a professor of philosophy at several colleges in New York and at the University of Houston, a post he retired from in 2002.

He studied Marx as a philosophy student in the late 1940s in Berlin and found him wanting.

This study, which was a powerful antidote to moral and political philosophy as practiced in the university, brought me into a world in which thinking is shaped by reality, and reality in turn by thought.

Overall, this study reveals, as Sullivan himself recognized, the potential of Whitehead's process philosophy as a means of providing a coherent theoretical ground for contemporary psychiatry.2

By making language use its central object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself as combating.

Lowe, Victor, «Peirce and Whitehead as Metaphysicians,» Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Second Series, ed.

It was an Episcopal Seminary, and 40 years ago, as well as some Episcopal students and professors that still taught Biblical studies and philosophy, there were also Zen Buddhists and a Jewish Shule.

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

Chris Sinkinson, a tutor at Moorlands College in Dorset, was converted to Christianity while studying archaeology and philosophy as an undergraduate.

Is philosophy to be understood as the study of a (life - world) way of life?

Rather than leaving this as an uninvestigated discovery, as scientific reductionism and materialism would have us leave it, the Holy Father invites us to remit the question to those areas of study which have the appropriate competence, which comprise human subjectivity and creativity within their appropriate object: namely philosophy and theology.

It is logic, not process philosophy, which insists that one can not both describe Jesus as a man and also say that God's indwelling in him differs in kind from his indwelling in other men: since a study of the raw material confirms the first statement, logic demands a modification of the second.

As we made our way through the soul of the Old City to Jaffa Gate, my companion, a super-Sabra who studied mathematics and philosophy at Hebrew University, asked me the inevitable question.

SMURFETTE As I said ur studies in Roman Catholic philosophy was not a study in Xtian Spirituality which is what the NT or de Bible is about!

This book might have been, perhaps should have been, much longer and more detailed; and unquestionably it may be faulted as being altogether too much a reporting of what one theologian has found interesting and useful in his study of the process - philosophy.

R. E. Hume's book, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, 29 contains a translation of those which are rather generally accepted as basic to a study of Hindu religion and philosophy.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

The philosophy of nature of Aristotle studies material beings, i.e. bodies, as capable of motion and change.

On retiring as Vice-Principal of Notre Dame College of Education in Glasgow, he was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy for his study of Catholic Secondary Education in South West Scotland.

For excellent discussions of the need to recover the empirical side of the process tradition, see Lee, Bernard J., SM., «Two Process Theologies,» Theological Studies 45 (1984), pp. 307 - 319; Axel, Larry E., and Peden, W. Creighton, eds., Dean, William, Special Guest Coeditor The Size of God: The Theology of Bernard Loomer in Context (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987), also published simultaneously as the special January and May, 1987 issue of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

The most famous catechetical school was in Alexandria in Egypt, where the syllabus included the best in Greek science and philosophy as well as Christian studies.

Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his biography which laid the encounter of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as living everyday life in many contexts.

A first chapter considers how the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music became separated from the study of philosophy and theology, as if the quadrivium was an end in itself rather than the way in which a person was made ready for the study of philosophy and theology.

Nowadays philosophy mainly sees its task as one of assisting other disciplines to think clearly and meaningfully about their particular areas of study.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

While Chicago no longer exists as a center of process thought and is to a lesser extent than before identified with philosophy - theology dialogue and interaction, it leaves a legacy worthy of study by anyone interested in the history of these modes of inquiry in American religious thought.

Although Whitehead's theory of propositions has received treatment in many general studies of Whitehead's philosophy, it has received little attention as a topic by itself.

Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.

To confess interest in «process philosophy» as a viable vocation (over and against the mere historical study of a certain tradition) is to seem to associate oneself with a tradition thoroughly discredited in the eyes of its more analytically - inclined critics as little more than an historical anachronism — a throwback to the worst examples of unrestrained 19th - century speculative nonsense.10