scholarly journals J. J. MacIntosh, "The Arguments of Aquinas: A Philosophical View."

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Glenn B. Siniscalchi
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical View

Materialism and the Future of Aging in America

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Almeder
Keyword(s):  
Colonial America ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Favorable Attitude ◽  
Social Attitude ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Ethical Attitudes ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Future Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
Attitudes Toward Aging

In Growing Old in America, David Fischer argues that colonial America witnessed a sudden and revolutionary shift in social attitude from gerontophilia to gerontophobia. It is argued here that the shift can be explained as the necessary result of an emerging materialism which came to dominate mercantile America. It is shown how philosophical materialism requires an attitude of denigration toward aging and the elderly, and that the future of our collective attitude toward the elderly is wedded philosophically to the future success or failure of philosophical materialism. It is also suggested that the future of materialism in America looks dim and that there will emerge a strong philosophical base adequate for reforming ethical attitudes and engendering a much more favorable attitude toward the elderly in general. It is suggested that positive or negative attitudes toward aging and the elderly are rooted in unconscious commitments to non-materialistic (dualistic) or materialistic views on the nature of man. The two basically different views on the nature of man beget the two basically different views and attitudes toward aging and the elderly. Which attitude is right is a function of which philosophical view is correct and the paper closes with some evidence that materialism is on the wane.

scholarly journals Spirituality in the Philosophical Thought of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

ULUMUNA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-394
Author(s):  
Fadhilah Khunaeni
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Eternal Truth ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Relative Truth ◽  
Ecological Damage ◽  
Intellectual Intuition ◽  
Fundamental Reason

Spirituality for Seyyed Hossen Nasr is an inner reality that becomes a religious central in Islam. It is the esoteric dimension hidden in the reality of exoteric Islam. That view on spirituality brings Nasr to the philosophical thought that cannot be separated from religious metaphysical doctrine. Nasr argues that philosophy is more than just a ratio but also the activity of intellect that can reach the meta-cosmic nature to find the essence of truth namely the universal and eternal truth that lies behind the physical and relative truth. The philosophical efforts to find this truth are a combination of the optimizing potential of reason and intellectual intuition. Nasr refers to ḥikmah or wisdom as a kind of philosophy that combines logic and intellectual intuition. That philosophical view brings Nasr on a dualistic view of nature which not only has a cosmic dimension as such but also has a meta-cosmic dimension. This dualistic view is his fundamental reason in formulating the concept of metaphysical cosmology as a solution to the crisis of modern science that has caused a variety of ecological damage due to the secular vision.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v20i2.812

scholarly journals The Indispensable Role of Systematic Philosophical Reflection in Scholarship

Phronimon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Daniel Francois Strauss
Keyword(s):  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Formal Schemes ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
Philosophical Orientations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Systematic Thinking

Sometimes systematic theoretical thinking is identified with abstract (formal) schemes. This opposition is also found in Malan and Goosen’s dismissal of Dooyeweerdian reformational thinking. This article aims at making a contribution to this issue by analysing the indispensable role of systematic philosophical reflection within the world of scholarship. One way in which systematic thinking could be justified is to highlight the need for consistency and the role of logical principles in achieving it. It is argued that, since we are living in the same world, all philosophical orientations have to account for shared states of affairs. At this point attention is given to the question whether or not these “states of affairs” are “static or dynamic.” An alternative for the distinction between static and dynamic is proposed by alternatively considering the relationship between constancy and change. Von Weizsäcker articulates the problem aptly by pointing out that although our experience exhibits constant change, something exists that remains unchanged through all these changes. In conclusion it is pointed out that scholars have only two options: either they give an account of the philosophical presuppositions and systematic distinctions with which they work—in which case they have a philosophical view of reality, or implicitly (and uncritically) they proceed from one or another philosophical view of reality—in which case they are the victims of a philosophical view. The primary aim of this article is, therefore, to highlight the indispensability of systematic thought by referring to some of the main distinctions included in such a system of thought.

Only a whisper away. A philosophical view of the awake patient's situation during regional anaesthetics and surgery

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Christin Karlsson ◽  
Margaretha Ekebergh ◽  
Annika Larsson Mauléon ◽  
Sofia Almerud Österberg
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical View

British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Macleod
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
High Court ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Joseph Priestley ◽  
New Republic

This chapter examines British radical attitudes towards America during the 1790s by taking up the case of William Winterbotham, a Plymouth Baptist preacher who was jailed in Newgate prison for four years (1793–1797) for allegedly seditious content in two sermons he preached in November 1792. Winterbotham's most ambitious work was An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, published in four volumes in 1795. It demonstrates the fascination that America held for British radicals beyond Thomas Paine, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price. Among his many concerns, Winterbotham was highly critical of the institution of chattel slavery. The chapter explores Winterbotham's political analysis of the new republic and shows that his imprisonment for seditious libel was bracketed by contemporaries with the more conspicuous 'martyrdom' of five men sentenced to transportation by the Scottish High Court of Justiciary.

Philosophical View on Human Existence in the World of Technic and Information

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Guryanova ◽  
Elmira Khafiyatullina ◽  
Andrew Kolibanov ◽  
Alexander Makhovikov ◽  
Vyacheslav Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
The World

Explanation

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Michael Frede
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Historical Fact

This chapter discusses the explanation of historical philosophical views. Strictly speaking, the explanation of the philosophical view is the task of the philosopher. What the historian is concerned with is the historical fact that a certain view was held by a certain person in a certain context, the historical fact that this view came to be held by a whole group of philosophers, the historical fact that it became part of the state of the art to think of it as an acceptable or even a true view. Thus, historians do not explain the philosophical view in terms of what they take to be reasons for it but in terms of the reasons for which it was actually held because they were thought to constitute adequate grounds for holding it. The question then arises why a philosopher would hold this to be adequate grounds for the view. And in the simplest case, the answers will be in terms of another historical fact; namely that, by the standards of the time, this would have seemed to be adequate grounds to philosophers then, which raises the further question of why philosophers then would have taken this to be adequate grounds. At this point, one could go on to explain this by referring to further historical facts; namely, the fact that philosophers of the time would have explained this in such and such a way.

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