Sentences with phrase «classical philosophy understands»

Classical philosophy understands man and all sensible reality as a combination of form and matter.

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But the underlying philosophy of personality in classical behaviorism is partial and therefore, by itself, an incomplete understanding of human beings.

In classical philosophy it is possible to understand how a form is present in a human being without distorting or destroying his humanity, but it is unintelligible how one substance can enter into another without displacing some part of that other substance.

More important, he relates Burke's critique, which is fundamentally based on a classical and Christian understanding of natural law, to his political philosophy as a whole.

One such weakness is that Machiavelli's redefinition of virtue led him to overlook the insight of classical political philosophy that rulers can not rule their cities well unless they rule their own souls with moral virtue, classically understood.

In his latest book, first published in France in 1995, Hadot surveys with care the great schools of classical thought» Platonism, Aristotelianism >, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism» and argues that they share not only a drive to offer rational explanations of the world but also a conception of philosophy profoundly different from the way that discipline currently understands itself.

Jewish Christians understood their faith quite differently from Greek Christians, and among the Greeks other differences emerged reflecting backgrounds, for example, in the mystery religions on the one hand and classical philosophy on the other.