In this dictum Descartes is inconsistent
with the subjectivism which dominates his thinking.
Descartes is offered as a case in point, being «inconsistent
with the subjectivism which dominates his thinking.»
The book critically dispatches theories that identify genuine freedom and autonomy
with subjectivism and proportionalism or «teleologism.»
Not exact matches
And it doesn't come from any unique insight of the Austrian School, other than the fact of the combination of the
subjectivism coupled
with the inherent boom - bust cycle makes those of us who use Austrian Economics very sensitive to issues of price and value.
As Catholics become more and more concerned
with their personal identity, the ideals and morals of the Universal Church begin to disintegrate when faced
with the «
subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.»
More worrisome for me are the emphatic individualism,
subjectivism, and unconcern about community that are «vulgarly» associated
with libertarianism, not to mention the isolationism (and worse).
The Cartesian
subjectivism in its application to physical science became Newton's assumption of individually existent physical bodies,
with merely external relationships.
Even Hegel's system, for all that it sought to have done
with petty
subjectivism, could do so only by way of a massive metaphysical myth of the self - positing of the Concept, and of a more terrible economy of necessity than any pagan antiquity had imagined.
Externalism may be a defensible epistemological theory but it seems inconsistent
with Whitehead's
subjectivism.11
He has certainly succeeded in rebutting Thielicke's charge that by starting
with the Christian understanding of existence he betrays a
subjectivism akin to that of Schleiermacher.
Now perhaps it should be said immediately that this is not a call for exegesis that is mere problem - solving activity (as the inductive preaching of late liberal Protestantism tended to be) nor for client - centered preaching that is an exercise in self - analysis and smothering
subjectivism occasionally embroidered
with Scripture verses.
C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical
subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency
with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»
Bellah calls his own view «symbolic realism» and he contrasts it both
with the «primary naiveté» and «objectivism» of orthodoxy, and
with the «functional reductionism» and «
subjectivism» common in the social sciences.
Following the dangerous reference to Antichrist, Luther said
with a deep
subjectivism which frightened Spalatin: «Daily greater and greater help and support wells up in me by virtue of the authority of Holy Scripture.»
With the age of the Enlightenment, rationalism culminated in a complete rejection of the supernatural, and extreme empiricism led to scepticism and
subjectivism.
«4 Ford calls this Whitehead's «First Metaphysical Synthesis» and says that it is continuous
with Whitehead's earlier philosophy of nature.5 But when Whitehead adds the concept of «temporal atomicity» (elementary events can not be subdivided into subevents which are fully actual), this provokes a»...
subjectivism of actual occasions open to the real influence of possibility,» and»... generates an unexpected role for God as the antecedent limitation of this possibility.