Gifford : William (1756-1826), first editor of The Quarterly Review of London.
... series of Gifford Lectures where the present ideas would be developed, and concludes: In the meantime he has given us a book in which theologians, philosophers and men of science will alike find stimulating ideas backed by penetrating argument and sound experimental evidence. 2 Apropos of Alister Hardy, let us glance at a subject he treats in his second series of Gifford Lectures... homo sapiens and pointing beyond him has been put up by the English biologist. Sir Alister Hardy. The import of Hardy's most impressive book. The Living Stream, based on his first series of Gifford Lectures, is twofold. It lies not only in suggesting at the end more persuasively than ever before a background of psychism to the evolutionary process, which sets this process ascending in the midst... world. 'Mind,' he writes, 'knows itself and knows the world; chemistry and physics, explaining so much, cannot undertake to explain Mind itself.'"36 Hardy adds on his own a passage from Sherrington's Gifford Lectures, Man on His Nature: ...mental phenomena on examination do not seem amenable to understanding under physics and chemistry. I Page 332 have therefore to think of the brain ...
... some of them tried to infuse it with emotion, directness and greater simplicity. To this school belong the minor writers who formed the main current of verse during the time; of whom Erasmus Darwin &Gifford are the only notable ones. (4) The school of country life and the simpler feelings, consisting of Cowper and Crabbe.(5) The school of romantic poets & restorers of mediaevalism, consisting of Chatterton... poetry of Darwin this attempt finally breaks down. No poet of eminence except Byron afterwards attempted the style. Besides these four writers however there was a crowd of versifiers, of whom only Gifford need be named, who went on making feeble copies of Pope right into the nineteenth century. Page 141 × The ...
... “A naïve Western view of God is an outsize, light-skinned male with a long white beard, who sits on a very large throne in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow.” (Carl Sagan 3 ) In his Gifford lectures, the theologian Etienne Gilson argued: “Christian thought did not simply cloak itself in Greek philosophical ideas. What it uniquely added to Western philosophy was the Hebrew Creator.” 4... and open-minded as those of the great generation in the first half of the 20th century, and their number may increase because of the present crisis in physics and genetics. In the history of the Gifford Lectures as studied by Larry Witham, “ the scientists, philosophers, and theologians brought many views of God to bear, but when it came to find God in nature, there were two primary options: a process ...
... be a solid if something in the subtle dimension did not maintain it. Only, it is not visible to the physical eye but can be seen with the subtle eye. Disciple : Sir Arthur Eddington in his Gifford Lectures (1934) says that science began with the aim of reducing the complexity of the material world to a great simplicity. But now, it seems, science has not been able to keep its promise and no... science. Disciple : The continental scientists have refused to build a philosophy of science. They say that it is not their business to explain, but to lay bare the process. Eddington in his Gifford Lectures (1934) said that ultimately it is the human mind, the subjective element, which accepts one conclusion out of a number of possible conclusions. Scientific conclusion does not always depend ...
... have given of so much to which years ago they could offer no clue: he feels it is logical to suppose that Page 226 the remaining mysteries will prove resoluble by them. In his famous Gifford Lectures, published in book-form in 1941, Man On His Nature, he declares: "Today the very distinction between the living and the non-living is a convention. That deletes 'life' as a scientific category; ...
... of Vaishnavism have influenced his outlook. He was a firm believer in international peace and Shantiniketan was started to promote it; he pointed out the dangers of exclusive nationalism. In his Gifford lectures he has worked out the conception of Vishwamanava, the collective man, a conception of growing perfection of the human being through collective effort. His influence has largely been active ...
... discussion would be useless. So it is well that we should cease. I would only recommend a book I have just been reading - Knowledge and the Sacred by Sayyed Hussain Nasr. They were the Gifford Lectures for 1981, and the finest exposition of the 'perennial philosophy', which I have ever read. It is essential reading - the most profound basis for inter-religious understanding that ...
... 'the deep things of God.' Text from Galloway's The Philosophy of Religion, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), pp. 371-401 . Notes and References 1.Pfleiderer's Gifford Lectures on The Philosophy and Development of Religion, vol. i. p. 196. 2.G. S. Stratton, Psychology of the Religious Life, 1911, p. 367. 3. Op. cit, vol. i. p. 137. 4. Monadology ...
... physics. PURANI: The Continental scientists have now refused to build philosophy on science. They say it is not their business to explain but only to lay bare the process. Eddington says in his Gifford Lectures that the human mind, the subject, ultimately accepts one conclusion out of a number of conclusions not because of the nature of objective reality but because of the nature of the observing ...
... fact, is nearer to that ultimate supraintellectual Reality, for its knowledge is directly attained by an act of identity and is not indirect like that of science. Sir Arthur Eddington in his Gifford lectures has discussed this question of validity of knowledge. He says that the claim of physical science that the rainbow exists to give the knowledge of the difference in the wave-lengths of light ...
... in fact, is nearer to that ultimate supraintellectual Reality, for its knowledge is directly attained by an act of identity and is not indirect life that of science. Sir Arthur Eddington in his Gifford Lectures has discussed this question of validity of knowledge. He says that the claim of physical science that the rainbow exists to give the knowledge of the difference in the wave-lengths of light ...
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