The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... theologian tells us this cannot happen . For each party is doing its digging on a different level . Theology , he will say , is working from a revelation which enables it to see the world from the point of view of the transcendent mind ...
... theologian tells us this cannot happen . For each party is doing its digging on a different level . Theology , he will say , is working from a revelation which enables it to see the world from the point of view of the transcendent mind ...
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... theologian ) , yet he has his value as a " negative critic " . He cannot attain to any positive statements which can ... theologians , it plays its rôle of " negative critic " ? Is there some Anknupftungspunkt ( to use a word of Barth's ) ...
... theologian ) , yet he has his value as a " negative critic " . He cannot attain to any positive statements which can ... theologians , it plays its rôle of " negative critic " ? Is there some Anknupftungspunkt ( to use a word of Barth's ) ...
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... theologians . If he does claim to speak for the tradition , and the claim be quite properly disallowed by its leaders , then he ought not to form some schismatic sect of his own . His proper work is to search for clarity and ...
... theologians . If he does claim to speak for the tradition , and the claim be quite properly disallowed by its leaders , then he ought not to form some schismatic sect of his own . His proper work is to search for clarity and ...
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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