The perennial debates about good lives -- the disagreements caused by conflicts between scientific, religious, moral, historical, aesthetic, and subjective modes of reflection -- typically end in an impasse. This leaves the underlying problems of the meaning of life, the possibility of free action...
Evolutionary pluralism is defined in relation to modern systems theory and classical Chinese philosophy and shown to apply to the findings of the contemporary natural sciences as a proper characterization of the developmental process from Big Bang to biological and social‐cultural evolution....
1818, as a term in church administration, "the holding by one person of two or more offices at the same time," fromplural+-ism. Attested from 1882 as a term in philosophy for a theory which recognizes more than one ultimate principle. In political science, attested from 1919 (in Harold...
: a theological evaluation of the meaning of an ethic of embrace in a context of religious diversity ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to the consciousness of religious pluralism and the need for peace amongst the religious communities of the world, the researcher considered, and herewith presents, the ...
The educated public is confused about the intellectual and cultural importance of philosophy, and philosophers themselves are divided on its theoretical purpose and meaning. There are, to be sure, specifically philosophical sources of this condition. They include Kant's critique of traditional ...
Henry Hardy, welcome to Philosophy Bites. Nice to be here. The topic I want to focus on today is Isaiah Berlin's pluralism. But before we get into that, could you just say a little bit about who Isaiah Berlin was? Isaiah Berlin began life in Latvia and emigrated to England in 1921 ...
(though,alas,notinliterarystudies).Further,I intendtoindicatebrieflyandroughlyhowOlson'sagent-andintention-basedapproachestomeaningandinterpretationarefullycon-sonantwiththepredominantviewsinrecentworkinthephilosophyofthoughtandlanguage(whicharealsoagent-andintentionbased,unlikethepost-Saussurean,system-based,agent-...
In the analysis we used a methodological approach based on John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy and Ludwig Wittgenstein's first‐person perspective on language. A concept called 'epistemological moves' has been used to clarify the actions that teachers perform in order to guide students in procedures ...
Pluralism in Economics This article explores the meaning of pluralism in economics and the arguments put forward in support of it. In particular, the distinction is drawn between... SC Dow 被引量: 5发表: 2008年 Which Methodological Practice(s) for Psychotherapy Science? A Systematic Review and...
However, a 'new' ecology argues that too many empirical data violate the assumptions of theories of community structure for general predictive models to have much meaning or any validity. This shift is examined in contexts which include: complexity, competition, community and philosophy; and ...