Sentences with phrase «with philosophical questions»

His works are generally combinations of visual images that come to him mixed with philosophical questions that he is contemplating internally.

In a pure sf novel, you might get a lot of technical discussions of how the scientists managed to bring the dinosaurs back, along with some philosophical questions about the ethics of reviving extinct species.

Being a biologist who, since my student days, has been also concerned with philosophical questions, I believe that certain biological considerations may help clarify and perhaps solve some epistemological problems.

He did say the committee is grappling with the philosophical question of the federal role in education.

Not exact matches

In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»)

To get the most out of each conversation, I recommend asking your team members to come prepared with questions and ideas regarding strategy, as well as philosophical conversation material.

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The biggest of philosophical and theological questions such as life after death can only be answered with faith or educated speculation.

Bernard Coughlin, S.J., title this collection of essays «Letters to Young People,» because it would inform and challenge college - aged students who are grappling with philosophical, spiritual, political, and ethical questions for the first time.

At one Evangelicals and Catholics Together meeting, writes Tom, the Catholic co-chairman of ECT, which Chuck helped found twenty years ago, some of the Catholic members questioned the value of natural law arguments «on the philosophical ground that no reason exists that is not already deeply saturated with prior pre-understandings and commitments.»

The argument will be more accessible to readers with a measure of familiarity with the pertinent philosophical and scientific questions.

Whitehead's philosophical thinking about time begins with questions about passage as a character of nature.

Acutely sensitive to all of the technological and philosophical challenges of our day, Wytsma wrestles with questions of faith and doubt, justice and happiness, love and vocation.

He connects sexual activity to increasing doubts among young adults, and suggests that when twenty - somethings come home from college with scientific or philosophical questions related to their faith, those questions are just a guise for what's really at work — they're having sex.

Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.

Although meant in somewhat of a different philosophical context, I find myself in agreement with Tertullian's question» What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?»

While most Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, Cobb and a few others felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that would not avoid philosophical issues.

While the great majority of Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, a few of us felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that could not avoid philosophical issues.

However, there can be no question that the theological doctrine of God's impassibility is compatible with, and indeed demanded by, the philosophical doctrine.

-- A Philosophical Question,» written in 1952 and quoted with the permission of the author.)

Again and again one reads of a master who answers a disciple's philosophical question with a complete and insulting non sequitur of nonsensical quality.

The concern with the wholeness of man rules out the attempt to answer the question of what man is in terms of particular philosophical disciplines:

The Legacy Project aims not just to «promote» Hildebrandian ideas but above all to encourage a truly philosophical reception of his work — which is to say, a reception which does not dwell primarily on items of purely scholarly concern but which weighs von Hildebrand's theses, arguments, and formulations with the central question of philosophy, «Is it true?»

The condition requisite for healing it always this about - face, and from a purely philosophical point of view it might be a subtle question whether it is possible for one to be in despair with full consciousness of what it is about which one despairs.)

Within this context my siblings and I felt complete freedom to question, dissent and challenge the philosophical difficulties with our faith.

This decisiveness and completeness of acceptance is prevented when we become entangled with questions about how it is related to scientific knowledge and philosophical speculations.

Although there are various articles and books showing what I have called systematic theological concerns, philosophical criteria are used, usually exclusively, when dealing with questions of meaning and truth, criteria which are respectable in the academy.3 Process Christology, for example, usually follows Schleiermacher, and tends as a result to be embarrassed by strong exclusivist claims.

The question Hartshorne scholars must consider is whether he has been consistent with his own philosophical beliefs when discussing abortion.

It is true that these questions link up with very general and fundamental problems of a philosophical and theological doctrine of man, and with problems of natural philosophy in its widest sense.

Such a case amounts to the same thing as the question whether a Catholic of the kind we need to postulate in this instance, namely a man with a scientific, philosophical and theological formation, could, without guilt, come to the subjectively honest conviction that he can no longer honestly and in conscience believe and affirm the Church's authority.

For those of a philosophical bent, this chapter looks like a Magisterial response to Martin Heidegger's 1953 essay «The Question Concerning Technology», which suggested that the modern fixation with technology has made men think falsely that they can control the mysteries of Being.

He is a witness to how science is looking for answers about the world and is having to deal with philosophical and religious questions.

Editor's Reply We would simply note that at a question and answer session with representatives of the new movements held at Pentecost Pope Francis made the following comment, which seems to dovetail with the emphasis Mr Keeffe places on devotion to the Real Presence: For us Christians, poverty is not a sociological, philosophical or cultural category.

In this section I propose to investigate simultaneously two related questions: (1) to what extent is Whitehead's accomplishment similar to or compatible with evolutionary process cosmologies; and (2) to what extent is he influenced in his philosophical development by evolutionist theories generally, or by evolutionary cosmologists, including those whom he cites by name, such as Bergson, Alexander, and Morgan?

The history of religions» inquiry into the «meaning» of religious phenomena leads one to questions of a philosophical and metaphysical nature, but the history of religions as such can not deal with those questions philosophically.

Of course, when pressed in conversation, Ford readily admits that the statements in question are not factual but constitute, instead, a highly imaginative hypothesis primarily intended to explain the ever - shifting terminology with which Whitehead expressed his thought and the many textual anomalies — topical discontinuities, clumsy insertions, ghost references, etc — that plague his philosophical books, particularly Science and the Modern World and Process and Reality.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

It is not necessary to raise the question as to whether van Buren is guilty of taking this philosophical tradition too seriously, of receiving the impressive blows it is able to deliver with too radical a retreat.

All of sudden, science was challenging some of the philosophical / theological teaching of the church, and once again, the church was faced with the question of what to do about it.

Relating particularity with universality is one of the crucial philosophical questions of today which has far - reaching consequences and implications in all fields — political, cultural, economic, religious, etc..

«10 But the question of consciousness can of course not be dismissed when the philosophical stance is that of oneself as a human knower; and if cognitive consciousness is always the result of processing an input, as it appears to be with Kant's doctrine of synthesis, consciousness of the input can not be a cognition of reality.

The various theological controversies of the early centuries of Christianity — regarding our understanding of the two central mysteries of the faith, the Incarnation and Trinity — saw the question itself first deepened and clarified, and then answered with philosophical rigour.

I feel a lot of empathy with Brand's position and his questions, because I came from a similar philosophical and cultural starting point before I became a Christian.

Like Wittgenstein, Whitehead is not, of course, opposed to the concept of a «philosophical illness;» the difference lies in the seriousness with which the two thinkers approach traditional philosophical issues: Wittgenstein seems to see no legitimacy in questions that science or common sense can not answer, while Whitehead struggles with classical metaphysical problems, stepping beyond the strict boundaries of the scientific method.

As is widely recognized, he is a philosophical theologian willing to ask basic metaphysical and moral questions and to engage in a close dialogue with the natural and social sciences just as many seem to be retreating from these conversations.

When we encounter the words of Jesus in history, we do not judge them by a philosophical system with reference to their rational validity; they meet us with the question of how we are to interpret our own existence.

«The philosophical question that has not been answered in origin - of - life studies is this: How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self - replication capabilities, and «coded chemistry»?

Maybe that's on a more philosophical, food culture level, but it's sort of dizzying for chefs to watch because these trends seem to come out of nowhere, and then in the context of wastefulness, the question is: What do you do with the byproducts of those crazes?

But the questions remain about Malone motivating this team, making rotations and adjustment both in game time, and with philosophical direction.

As the debate unfolded the questions consisted of too much historical and philosophical minutia seemingly tailor - made to make Libertarians seem hopelessly eccentric to a national audience, far too little dealing with the news and concerns of the 2016 election.