Sentences with phrase «work as philosophy»

This source of the questions does not lessen the value of their work as philosophy, but it does mean that their philosophical work was a part of their work as theologians.

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By incorporating the 14 Deming principles as a working philosophy, we have been able to strategically increase staff productivity and position the organization as an asset to the manufacturing industry.

Following her own philosophy, she called on everyone to submit ideas that illustrate solutions to her for inclusion in Broken Nature, as the exhibition is still a work in progress.

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Under ROWE, as the program has come to be known, a corporate philosophy that equated success at work with long hours at the office would be scrapped in favour of a more flexible workplace.

As an ASPIRAnte she implements Dr. Antonia Pantoja's philosophy of Awareness, Analysis, and Action in all of her life's work.

A primary advantage of this philosophy arises due to the way the taxation system is setup in the United States, which creates an inherent edge that accrues to the passive strategy as the years go by and compounding works its magic.

My philosophy has always been — life is short — enjoy as much as you can afford to — but make sure you always pay yourself first to ensure you don't HAVE to work forever.

That book changed Kass's life and helped move him toward his own remarkable work in bringing together science, medicine, and a philosophy worthy of human beings, as in his own Toward a More Natural Science.

In order for you to make the claim that the Bible is a «fictional work,» I must logically deduce that you must have spent years in deep theological study as well as studies in comparative religion and philosophy to make your claim.

Pragmatism as a philosophy, its proponents insist, is more than a matter of what works, but it ought to work better than that.

That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

The works of Don Browning, John Cobb or Lewis Mudge are a lively introduction to contemporary psychology, social thought and philosophy, as well as an argument for their own constructive theological positions.

His most substantial work was Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874), though smaller works such as The Destiny of Man (1884), The Idea of God (1885), and Through Nature to God (1899), were more influential.

Lotze's work was in medicine before he turned to philosophy, and in these writings as well as in the early volumes of Microcosm he actually anticipated Darwin's theory.

Brumbaugh admits that as of 1978 he could name only a few American theorists working with Whitehead's ideas in education, physics, or the philosophy of science.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

My own moment of clarity in AA came when, while earnestly trying to «work the program» and embrace its philosophies, it occurred to me that if I could somehow convince myself of something as preposterous as the idea that I needed to change my entire way of thinking and adapt to the 12 - step program in order to stop drinking, I could probably convince myself of something a little better suited to my own needs (and much simpler) that would work just as well.

But, synthetic as it is, it is far too strong an adversary for the easygoing Westerner who says, complacently, that he has worked out a «philosophy» which is personally satisfactory to him and that he believes in being kind.

For just as the philosophy of idealism had a twofold concern, the purity of philosophic thought and the truth of the Christian proclamation, so these two tendencies are clearly at work in Bultmann's exposition.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

As with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.&raquAs with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.&raquas against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»

Along with many other students of Whitehead, I have believed that there was a considerable difference between Whitehead's cosmological and metaphysical vision as worked out in his Harvard years and his earlier philosophy of science.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

That interest led to doctoral work in medieval philosophy and theology as preparation for specialization in contemporary Catholicism.

I confess, this is the first time I have ever read your work, but it seems as if you are converting to a philosophy, not embracing a religion.

It is well known that Hegel could conclude his lectures on the philosophy of history by speaking of the last stage of history as our own world and our own time, but it is not well known that this apocalyptic ground is absolutely fundamental to his two most ultimate works, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic.

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

The implications of this conclusion are many and far - reaching, for my own work as a theologian as well as for what I understand by the related, but nonetheless distinct, tasks of philosophy and metaphysics.

Xenophanes (approximately 570 «500 b.c.) has earned for himself a perpetual place in undergraduate philosophy textbooks with his famous line that «if horses or oxen or lions had hands they could draw with and thus could accomplish such works as men, horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and oxen as similar to oxen, and they would make the bodies of the sort which each of them had.»

I was fortunate to stumble on his early work on the philosophy of social science when I was writing my dissertation (subsequently published as Character and the Christian Life).

In our Road to Regensburg column, we continue to follow Pope Benedict as he responds to John Paul II's «urgent» appeal for an orthodox development in philosophy and theology; we also note the work of the Cardinal Van Thuan Institute in exposing the ignorance surrounding the Pope's important anthropological developments, which were central to his encyclical Caritas in Veritate.

Hopefully, in further work he may yet strengthen this facet of his philosophy so as to give adequate recognition to the distinctly human features of man's existence.

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of radical libertarianism.»

As the book's equivocal subtitle, «A German Affair,» suggests, Romanticism does not just name an achievement but also an entanglement, a cultural development at once creative and obsessive, and a volatile turn in philosophy and the arts that, even as it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacAs the book's equivocal subtitle, «A German Affair,» suggests, Romanticism does not just name an achievement but also an entanglement, a cultural development at once creative and obsessive, and a volatile turn in philosophy and the arts that, even as it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacas it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacy.

Most of the religions and many of the philosophies of the world have had a Supreme Being as their center, and God has been variously thought of as the Highest Good, or the Unmoved Mover, or the First Cause, or the Absolute in whom all contradictions are reconciled, or an impersonal cosmic force or process at work in the world, or the personification and projection outward of man's own high impulses.

It is an outgrowth of the continuing philosophy that church work is done not just by the minister and the official board, but by a committed congregation following a plan of «tithing of time» which can be as meaningful and productive as the tithing of money..

The present confrontation is sharpened because process philosophy is highly cosmological in its perspective as is suggested by the title of Whitehead's key work, Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology.

One of the two alcoholics interviewed who classed themselves as atheists described the problem when he spoke of what he called «my cockeyed philosophy of life»: «A fellow sleeps to get strong, so he can work to get money to eat and have a place to sleep, so that he can get strong and be able to work to get money, and so on.»

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

His work is, as he states, exclusively in the field of the philosophy of nature.

First of all, his work as a New Testament exegete has an inadequate basis in his hermeneutic philosophy.

Consequently a circulation is set up among all the forms of demythologization — demythologization as work of science, as work of philosophy, and as proceeding from faith.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

Furthermore, according to William Dean, the empiricism of Whitehead's philosophy not only destroys the dualism of the subject and object, but also other traditional dualisms, such as those of spirit - matter and human - nonhuman, in a manner that even transcends Derrida's works (DP 8).

The present deliberations have two distinct phases or stages, the first dealing with processes as such and the second with process philosophy as it has evolved in the work of people like Peirce, Whitehead, and Hartshorne.

But he also regarded his philosophy of civilization as an essential part of his life work.