Sentences with phrase «subjectivism on»

A relational sexual ethics has appeared to many as a way of avoiding legalism on the one hand and normless subjectivism on the other.

This criticism reveals a total misunderstanding of Buber's philosophy of dialogue which is, as we have seen, a narrow ridge between the abysses of objectivism on the one side and subjectivism on the other.

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Milbank claims that their basic thrust is nihilistic, as is that of positivism, Hegelianism, liberalism, relativism, subjectivism and pluralism, and that they are founded on the ultimacy of aggression, violence and war.

Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.

It is on this point that Kuhn's critics are most vehement, accusing him of relativism, subjectivism and irrationality.

Despite the views, and perhaps hopes, of some that Whitehead's metaphysics provided an opportunity for theology to rise above empirical naturalism and provide a via media between the rationalism of Thomistic theology and the subjectivism of Protestantism, 17 Whitehead's actual influence on American theology during the thirties was very limited.

These precious few have been equipped to stand against the tide of subjectivism that has overwhelmed our society - what the Holy Father, on the eve of his election, called the tyranny of «relativism».

In fact, the school is home to a large, though shrinking, group of people who hold traditional Catholic beliefs on specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia, but who at the same time hold many beliefs about ethics that are indistinguishable from the subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism of secular America.

Here, no doubt, lies one reason for the theological interest in «verifiable facts about Jesus of Nazareth: «they are needed, it will be said, to regulate the christological pluralism of the New Testament, and, still more, to restrain the subjectivism that imposes fantasy on the text.

Focusing on the discernment of worth helps avoid the trap of subjectivism.

Leclerc goes on to cite a Whiteheadian passage praising «the advent of Cartesian subjectivism [for as a result] the substance - quality category has lost all claim to metaphysical primacy» (WM 120, citing PR 243).

Their sculptures, fusing almost readymade images and almost unforeseen forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism based on an authentically Pop imaginary and a distanced figurative conceptualism.»

And — while I am at it — Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainty shows how subjectivism has been introduced and endorsed by IPCC.