When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

) Functionalism as a sociological credo is, therefore, not a direct consequence of observations, but rather an indirect consequence of philosophical inference and judgment.

The purpose of this sort of philosophical study of sociology is not to tyrannize but to clarify the principles of social science.

I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It is Martin Heidegger, not Nietzsche, who elaborated a new interpretation of Aristotle, intended to warrant his deconstruction of scholastic and philosophical tradition.

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

Applied ethics is the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment.

It is thus a term used to describe attempts to use philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

There is still the position, based on the philosophical question of personal identity, termed open individualism, and in some ways similar to the old belief of monopsychism, that concludes that individual existence is illusory, and our consciousness continues existing after death in other conscious beings.

He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplatonism, although little is known about his own philosophical views.

Very little is known about his philosophical views.

The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

Aesthetics is the philosophical notion of beauty.

In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical consideration that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it.

In philosophical terminology, abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects.

Axiology ( from Greek, axiā, " value, worth "; and ,-logos ) is the philosophical study of value.

It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics — philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value — or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.

The guest list is in itself a little parable of the state of American civic life at this time.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.

The priest tells K. that the parable is an ancient text of the court, and many generations of court officials have given interpretations.

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

Similarly, a city has three parts – Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses ’ power is directed by the charioteer.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

As one commentator notes, " Luke is the only one to record the parable of the two debtors, and he chooses to preserve it in this setting ...

If one considers the other gospel accounts as a variation of the same event, it is likely that the parable is not authentically set.

The Parable of the Pearl ( also called the Pearl of Great Price ) is a parable of Jesus of Nazareth.

This parable is generally interpreted as illustrating the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven ( pearls at that time had a greater value than they do today ), and thus has a similar theme to the Parable of the Hidden Treasure.

This interpretation of the parable is the inspiration for a number of hymns, including the Swedish hymn Den Kos ­ tli ­ ga Pärlan ( O That Pearl of Great Price!

A less common interpretation of the parable is that the merchant represents Christ, and the pearl represents the Church.

In chapter 21, the parable of the vineyard is followed by the great " stone " text, an early christological midrash of: " The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone ".

The theme of the hymns and readings on this Sunday is dedicated to the lessons to be learned from the parable: that righteous actions alone do not lead to salvation, that pride renders good deeds fruitless, that God can only be approached through a spirit of humility and repentance, and that God justifies the humble rather than the self-righteous.

The Gospel Reading on Sunday lays out one of the most important themes of the Lenten season: the process of falling into of sin, realization of one's sinfulness, the road to repentance, and finally reconciliation, each of which is illustrated in the course of the parable.

This is the moral of Lessing's Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ), the hero of which is undoubtedly Mendelssohn, and in which the parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position.

The New Testament contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man who was beaten is cared for by a Samaritan.

When Mannie asks him why he bought it, the Professor relates the following parable, implying that self-government is an illusion caused by failure to understand reality: