Sentences with phrase «at best philosophers»

At best philosophers can express our hopes; they have no claim on the «truth» nor can they tell us how things really are.

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But that's not the best way to look at hard choices, argues philosopher Ruth Chang in a thought - provoking recent TED talk in which she offers a liberating new framework for making life's toughest calls.

He formerly served as product philosopher at Google, and he's the co-founder of the Center for Human Technology (and the Time Well Spent movement).

The heretical philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, on the other hand, claimed that new theories frequently contradict the best available evidence — at least at first.

at best jesus was a decent philosopher who's life was grossly embellished by his followers after his death.

I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.

The Buddhists held and hold it, at least one sect of Hinduism ditto, Peirce, perhaps the greatest cognitive genius this country ever had, and the Anglo - American (as I call him), A. N. Whitehead held it, as did Haeberlin, a Swiss philosopher and my best psychology teacher at Harvard, Leonard Troland.

The elaborate categories and hierarchies of order that Kuntz propounds are his own, rather than either of theirs, and both philosophers fit into Kuntz's esoteric metaphysical scheme only uncomfortably, at best.14 Far more valuable, in my opinion, are the specific doctrinal, historical, and biographical comparisons that can be drawn between both thinkers, to which Kuntz along the way in the Russell volume contributes a number of valuable additions.

Plain men and philosophers have sought for a valid concept of the good, have been perplexed by the search, and have arrived at many different conclusions.

There is also great promise in the philosophical trail being blazed between rationality and truth by Harvard philosopher and mathematician Hilary Putnam, and the liberal way out of the jungle of relativism may well be guided by his skillful hacking away at all that divides Reason, Truth and History.

Rational activity of the sort so prized by the Greek philosophers could be, for the Indian, at best one factor in the total life of the soul alongside others of equal or greater centrality.

If Christianity is skittish at best about familial nobility and not just dignity, as a pridefully creative project of life - defining meaning, is it not remarkable that the most venomous and blatant of the anti-Christian philosophers is so circumspect and muted on the matter?

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

In A Case for Irony, the text of his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human life.

Because of that, I do not believe in theologians like Karl Barth saying, You do not have to worry about what the philosophers are saying — I think we had all better worry, at least a little, about what any careful, serious, sincere person says.

at best the story of jesus is a gross embellishment of a decent philosopher.

One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

Food Philosopher Charles Michel and Daniel Ospina, Chair of Crossmodalism and Founder of Conductal, take a look at the politics of food and their role in shaping the well - being of people and the planet.

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De Waal, who is based at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has been making this case eloquently for many years and over several books, notably in Good Natured back in 1997, and in Primates and Philosophers, 12 years later.

Einstein also bagged the scalp of the celebrated philosopher Henri Bergson, besting him in debate in Paris in April 1922, at a public gathering both men had gone to great lengths to avoid.

To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

«The truly odd thing is that the laws of physics, which surely ought to be responsible for what we see in the world, can work just as well both forwards and backwards in time,» says Dean Rickles, a philosopher of science at the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

But, as Leonard Susskind wrote, «I would bet that at the turn of the 22nd century philosophers and physicists will look nostalgically at the present and recall a golden age in which the narrow provincial 20th century concept of the universe gave way to a bigger better [multiverse]... of mind - boggling proportions.»

Voting well means making your choice from a standpoint of informed consideration and with an eye toward the common good, says Jason Brennan, a political philosopher at Georgetown University and author of The Ethics of Voting.

Without an escape clause, physicists and philosophers must finally answer a problem that has been nagging at them for the best part of 50 years: how do you get a universe, complete with the laws of physics, out of nothing (see «Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing «-RRB-?

I went from being an exceptional student to not being a very good student at all, and I was effectively derailed until I discovered the pre-Socratic philosophers when I was in my early twenties and realized that the study of matter really interested me.

by Walter Chaw Philosopher - scientist Nikola Tesla (of coil fame) once suggested that the universe winding down vibrated to a sympathetic rhythm; art, at its best, puts a tuning fork to it.

NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University will award honorary degrees to best - selling mystery writer Walter Mosley, philosopher and Parliament member Onora O'Neill and renowned jurist Hein Kötz at its spring commencement, the university announced Tuesday.

Better to be like the great moral philosopher Linus van Pelt, who carried a candle at night, and his sister Lucy asked him why he was doing so.

The piazza has a formidable statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno as well, who was burned at the stake there in 1600.

Originally written and performed in Athens in 507 B.C. and winner of Best New Dramedy at the 508 B.C. Dionysia Festival, the chaotic Okhlos will have modern gamers stepping into the sandals of ancient Greek philosophers to lead angry mobs of irate citizens and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece.

The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper's direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of race, gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially - conscious artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best artist at this year's Venice Biennale, and MoMA has recently announced plans for, in the words of Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times, «the most comprehensive exhibition to date on the conceptual artist,» set to open in 2018.

The artist's 2009 film Evaders features the mighty Pyrenees, which formed the mute backdrop to philosopher Walter Benjamin's escape from the Nazis (his flight ended with his suicide in 1940, having been refused entry at the Spanish border), as well as the blurred view from the train to Auschwitz.

It will include an illustrated chronology with commentary as well as essays by Michel Martin, exhibition curator at the Musée national des beaux - arts du Québec, Kenneth Brummel and Yves Michaud, renowned French philosopher and author of many essays on Mitchell and Riopelle.

in public space in collaboration with CKU Images Festival, Copenhagen - Holbæk, 2013 DK, as well as the group exhibition «Enten - Eller / Entweder - Oder» on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, at Kunsthallen Nikolaj, 2013 Copenhagen, and Haus am Waldsee, 2013 Berlin.

Towards the end of the retrospective is a display case with several drawings chiding artworld opening reception phrases and lists of philosophers helpful for artist practices, as well as several Xerox fanzines Sillman made (a couple even quote Reinhardt and one reproduced How to Look at Modern Art in America).

Philosopher Simon Critchley speaks about collaborative relationships at the Guggenheim Museum as part of «It Takes Two,» a symposia presented on the occasion of the retrospective «Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,» on April 23 — 24, 2016.

An omnivorous reader, influenced by the poet Rimbaud, as well as philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and with a love of music but little formal training in fine art, Nolan turned to painting at the age of 21, following in the footsteps of abstract painters like Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy.

The exhibition also provided the opportunity for the artist to converse with the philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio, as well as with the astronaut Jean - Pierre Haigneré at the Mir space station.

At Bauernmarkt, in the city center, for instance, the freelance curator Elsy Lahner, the philosopher Michael God, and gallery owner Emanuel Layr (of Galerie Layr & Wüstenhagen) made interim use of empty office spaces and apartments as well as artists» studios for their curatorial venture «Into Position,» which encompassed discussion groups, a «Mittwochsbar» (Wednesday Bar), an archive in suitcases, and exhibitions of both emerging and established artists organized by a number of invited guests, including the editors of the Austrian art magazine Spike and the curators from the project space Temporary Contemporary in London.

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

In fact, it seems to me that the piece makes, or at least strongly implies, some assumptions that philosophers, sociologists, and good thinkers in general soundly demolish nearly every day in universities around the world.

It is a sort of docudrama following the Moss family through their daily life of commutes and gymnastic classes and shopping at the power center, with commentary by the always articulate planner Ken Greenberg, new urbanist Andreas Duany, philosopher Mark Kingwell and, of course, Jim Kunstler at his best.

In a review of Posner's book at the blog virtual philosopher, Nigel Warburton calls it «by far the best treatment of plagiarism I've read.»