The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... perhaps it is also partly due to the present state of the subject . We are , I believe , at the end of a period of metaphysical thinking ; and the proper method and scope of a new constructive movement of metaphysics , in relation to ...
... perhaps it is also partly due to the present state of the subject . We are , I believe , at the end of a period of metaphysical thinking ; and the proper method and scope of a new constructive movement of metaphysics , in relation to ...
Page 217
... perhaps unacknowledged desire . But whereas " rationalization " may be to some extent detected and corrected , there is the more deep - seated suspicion that the epistemological problem of the objectivity of knowledge is not capable of ...
... perhaps unacknowledged desire . But whereas " rationalization " may be to some extent detected and corrected , there is the more deep - seated suspicion that the epistemological problem of the objectivity of knowledge is not capable of ...
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... perhaps we are not yet ready for the " word " which will express the " metaphysical analogy " relevant to our time . Perhaps we need first to be living fully in a responsive and respons- ible relatedness to its demands with sensitive ...
... perhaps we are not yet ready for the " word " which will express the " metaphysical analogy " relevant to our time . Perhaps we need first to be living fully in a responsive and respons- ible relatedness to its demands with sensitive ...
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A. N. WHITEHEAD absolute abstract awareness becomes called Cassirer categorical proposition character claim co-ordinated coherence concepts concerned concrete universal conscious constructions Cosmological Argument depends Descartes described developed distinction drawn elements empirical ence existence express fact faith forms of thought function Gestalt Gestalt theory Hegel Hence human idealism idealist ideas intellectual interpretation intrinsic nature judgments of importance kind knowledge logical mathematical matter mean merely metaphysical analogies metaphysical theory mind mode models naïve realism natural theology neo-orthodox notion objects organism pattern percipient activity perspective phenomenal phenomenalist philosophy physical feelings physiological possible prehension presuppositions principle Professor Professor Price propositions question realissimum reality relation relationship religion religious symbolism response revelation scientific scientific models seek sensations sense data sense perception sensory significant spirit structure suggest symbolic forms theologian things Thomist Thomist philosophy tion total assertion tradition transcendent truth universe Whitehead whole word