Sentences with phrase «ultimate criterion»

And if the secularists doing the balancing are old - fashioned Enlightenment rationalists, the development of this consensus will become one where the rights of the individual remain the ultimate criterion for judging the often conflicting claims of various particular communities.

So, if somebody wants to maintain a broad concept of experience and the universalistic ideal of knowledge at the same time (as Hartshorne does), he can not appeal to experience as the ultimate criterion of knowledge.

But if every experience is already interpreted it can not be the ultimate criterion of philosophically valuable knowledge.

The aim of the minister's disciplining others in life is precisely as Joseph Fletcher has put it: teaching people to use the ultimate criterion of love in the actual situation in making their decisions.

The «facts» to which theology must be coherently adequate are not exhausted, of course, by the hard - core commonsense ideas; these ideas only provide the ultimate criteria for testing adequacy.

Whitehead believes that such elements can be identified, and that they should constitute the ultimate criteria against which all philosophical construction is to be checked (PR 13/19, 151/229).

This knowing, when it reaches its full development in «seeing the other,» or making the other present (which surely happens again and again in really effective psychotherapy), is itself the ultimate criterion for the reality of the I - Thou relation.

It subjected whatever it received to an ultimate criterion, the image of Jesus as the new being.

... This means that, in the end, reason gives way before the pressure of other interests and the lure of efficiency, and is forced to recognise this as the ultimate criterion».

We have still to discuss the nature of ethical principles; but so far as love is the ultimate criterion every Christian ethic is contextual.

According to this objection, if we adopt the greatest happiness principle as the ultimate criterion of morality, it becomes our duty to treat some people unfairly, provided it can be shown that such action would promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

On the other hand, if the ultimate criterion in scholarly disputation is reason, then publicly claiming prior authority for revelation is a breach of ethics and is rightly reprehended by secular scholars.

«If extinction is the ultimate criteria by which to judge agency implementation of the Endangered Species Act, the failure has been spectacular,» the report read.

Thus, Popper famously declared «falsifiability» as the ultimate criterion of demarcation.

The author suggests that the ultimate criterion for a high leadership capacity school might be the ability to thrive without a formal, full - time principal.