Some, including Augustine, have claimed that God created the universe from a standpoint outside time; others claim that God, like the universe, is in time.
From a standpoint outside Christianity, the distinction between mainstream Protestantism and marginal movements like Pentecostalism and the Salvation Army appears less significant than it does from within; all shades of the Christian religion derive from the same sketchy Gospel accounts of a charismatic miracle worker and a cosmic narrative wildly different from what science shows.
There is no question, then, of reaching a standpoint outside of history or of conceiving past times as stages on the way to the present.
From this it is a short step to thinking of God as occupying a standpoint outside that series, a timeless standpoint that entails a tenseless relation between all events but which is not entailed by it.
Perhaps taking a cue from David Hume's skepticism about the capacity of philosophy to replace the judgments of common life, Smith is suspicious of philosophy as conducted from a foundationalist standpoint, outside the modes of thought and practice it examines.
But the inevitable thematization of intersubjectivity, from a standpoint outside the face-to-face encounter, simply underscores the necessary double reading Levinas demands of us: conceptualization and performance.[32] Yet the question of justice requires an additional transcendental move that Levinas will not make.
This is a significant milestone for nursing as it begins to shift nursing outside a philosophical standpoint of individualism that is rooted in Western scientific thought and urges nurses to imagine other possible perspectives for the advancement of the nursing profession.
He enjoyed hearing them talk, as if it were soothing somehow, as if it reassured him, as if their talk and ordinary lives were standpoints outside the capacious and demanding territory of his imagination.
Responding to the first of these, some have argued that it does seem possible to critique existing practices of holding responsible from standpoints outside them.
Forbes: What other areas do you find attractive for investment right now? Eveillard: Well, as I said from a very long-term standpoint, Asia outside Japan, which I think although there will be, of course, investment opportunities in Brazil, maybe possibly even in Russia someday, and in central Europe, in the rest of South America, I'm more inclined toward Asia, outside Japan.
