Sentences with phrase «western ways of thinking»

Western medicine has been researching for a very short time in comparison to the age of acupuncture's origins: what is acupuncture and why does it work with our bodies — it is hard to explain each individual's energy force by Western ways of thinking.

All of these types of thinking about theology are Western ways of thinking which stem primarily from Greek Philosophy and the Enlightenment.

Although Derrida is commonly read as either overthrowing or at least attempting to evade the effect of history and tradition, he made it clear just how much we are embedded in Western ways of thinking.

Maybe it is just because I am so immersed in western ways of thinking.

These three features of Western culture — consumerism, individualism, and secularism — have not been fully embraced by Russians since Western ways of thinking became more familiar to them after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Those who argue that jihadi groups represent the «essence» of Islam actually reflect a very Western way of thinking.

Our scientific - critical thinking, our total experience of life, our emotional and volitional ways of reaction, are strongly shaped by our specific Christian presuppositions and Western ways of thought and life.

Hindus and Muslims often remind Christians on campus that we have allowed our faith to be qualified and our intellectual life to be truncated by the limits of Western ways of thought and economics.

What has happened instead is that we take concepts like the chakra system and tweak them to fit into our Western way of thinking.

This was originally Wilhelm's role when he went over to the country as a missionary, but when he lived amongst the Chinese and observed their ways of life, he realised they shared a spirituality and philosophy that he believed, by the end of his life, was more preferable to the Western way of thinking and living.

The Author, being a psychologist, was able to take the Eastern ideas from the Dalai Lama and compare them to a more Western way of thinking.

«She understands the Chinese and Western way of thinking,» Murdoch says.

Not exact matches

Cayton's approach — he has lived in Nepal and melds Eastern and Western schools of thought — also rubbed her the wrong way.

and he wrought out an estimate of personality's worth and destiny which, passing by way of Christianity into confluence with Greek thought, is still part of the great tradition of the Western world.

If Buddhists can think in this way, their compassion can draw them into the work of critique and reconstruction of the worldview that still underlies most of Western thinking.

Although my studies at these two schools introduced me to the scope and depth of Western thought on the issue of evil, the way in which the problem was defined was quite different from its definition in the black church.

Those who think that thinking about the Cold War is old hat will not appreciate Revel's searing indictment of Western intellectuals who, had they had their way, would have sold out democracy to Communist totalitarianism.

The very way in which Greek philosophy is read and understood in Western thought is through the imagery and sensibilities of this primal mythos.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

There's an underlying set of assumptions about the world that have been present within this set of thread of Western thoughts that weren't necessarily the way the Bible's authors thought.

I suppose that if someone was brought up in this way of thinking pattern, writing this way would come naturally, just the western thought flow comes relatively naturally to us.

It is not accidental or insignificant that ethical ways disappear or are invisible as such in both the total ways of the Orient and in the most radical expressions of modern Western thinking and vision.

It is very much alive, and as our world grows smaller, the Western world will find its ways of thought and life influenced by Buddhism.

But these men are important historically in a third way: not only their results and their methods but the philosophical interpretations of their ideas had a major impact on Western thought.

However, it views the individual in a very different way from the dominant thought forms of the Western Enlightenment.

The people of India would never refer to their religious faith and practices as Hinduism except as a concession to Western thought, for the Western label implies a pattern of beliefs and practices which is alien to their way of life.

Certainly our established Western categories and ways of language and thinking provide no manifest way of so conjoining brute fact and final salvation or everlastingness and matter - of - fact entities.

I do think that something like this is the case for the fourth chapter of Religion in the Making.7 Having conceived of God as a formative element, Whitehead sought to show how Western theism could be conceived in ways compatible with his notion of God.

What Genesis did was essentially put divinity over the material world in such a way that made it fair game for the type of Western thought, reason and scientific inquiry that exists today.

Where theology has failed to take up the historical theme of promise, secular ways of thinking — such as Marxism or the dubious Western dream of indefinite economic progress — have often done so instead, thereby filling a need to which religion and theology have failed appropriately to respond.

It is rather paradoxical that while European political colonization is nowadays firmly rejected, the spread of European culture goes on apace in such forms as education, science and technology, democratic rule, and Western standards and ways of thought.

Western thought has explored the various ways that one can understand the world if one begins with the idea that reality is composed of substances.

The way many Western Christians think about the Book of Jonah, for example, is a tragedy.

«In the words of the Minister's office, it is difficult to «share ideas from experts and the community about ways to improve the health of Western Australians» and «encourage broader thinking and community engagement» when so many key players have been omitted from this important discussion,» said Mr Geoff Parker, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Beverages Council.

It's really not, and only in our Western society is it thought of that way.

Finland didn't «designate» another country, and isn't a member of NATO... but in reality, do you seriously think that post-1945 USSR wouldn't have gobbled them up as soon as they could (the way they tried and failed before 1941) if not for worry about Western response?

«If we go back to 2009 - 2010, if the Senate was to flip the other way and the entire state's controlled by New York City interests, I think that's problematic for Western New York and all of Upstate.»

Less cynically, the leaders of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions of countries that advance a way of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their duty to take action, on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.

Perhaps the best way of thinking about western military action, which seems almost inevitable now, would be to consider a strictly limited objective of military strikes.

If true, the find suggests that wheat made its way to the far edge of Western Europe 2000 years before farming was thought to have taken hold in Britain.

«But this simple reason versus passion model fails to capture that there's a refined way of thinking with emotions, closely related to empathy and compassion,» said Anthony Jack, Director of Research at the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, associate professor of cognitive science, psychology and philosophy at Case Western Reserve and lead author of the new research.

They never think about the way how their bananas or other exotic fruit was grown — through destruction of rainforest, slavery of poor local people who have to splash it with pesticides banned in the western world, transported across the whole planet just for the sake of vegeposers who want exotic food.

And by the way, I'm not suggesting that this is the «proper» way of thinking about chakras, only that it is the worldview or underlying thinking structures that give us the difference between the Eastern and the Western models.

I'm not saying The Missing is a bad movie, it just wasn't a western in the way I usually think of westerns.

As he debuts his western Wild Horses, the «American Olivier» talks about his debt to Ken Loach, the easiest way to win an Oscar and what Brando would think of Matthew McConaughey

Then, we're shown ways in which movie studios have thought to bring innovation to the climaxes of westerns.

Kelly Reichardt's minimalist Western, about a lost wagon train and the man who thinks he knows the way to safety, was one of the best films of 2010, with a strong performance from frequent Reichardt star Michelle Williams and a haunting sound design.

@ belleza, funny you should speak about zzy's «devil western» ways, I think zzy and maggie cheung are both sore spots in many chinese hearts because of their both seemingly «unpatriotic» attitudes and behaviours on numerous occasions..

McCabe & Mrs. Miller — Robert Altman's great film isn't really a western in the way the genre is generally thought of.

The project of western education has to a large extent been one of separating ourselves from each other and creating an adversarial relationship between peoples particularly if they belong on different cultures or ways of thinking.