Sentences with phrase «greek philosophers»

That is the difference the Greek philosophers and modern science: consensus.»

The one that has most influenced the course of Western science is probably the doctrine of atomism, advocated by Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus, and other Greek philosophers.

The eclectic range of works includes provocative lumpen - sculptures by Franz West and Rosemarie Trockel, a playfully tormented painting by Wols (Wolfgang Schulze) and a hilarious copy of Raphael's «The School of Athens» by Malcolm Morley, in which a pantheon of Greek philosophers is rendered in gooey globs of acrylic, like a thickly frosted cake.

He claims the ancient Greek philosophers Anaximander and Democritus as inspirations.

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.

We see games like Chess and Go like the classical music to our modern pop songs, or like the ancient Greek philosophers.

The traditional moral virtues originated from Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, who used them to define the character traits of people who lead successful, uplifting lives.

The ancient Greek philosophers didn't need psychology or statistics to see the trap.

«Guido Brunetti, reader of Greek philosophers, is the central figure in the absorbing series of crime novels....

But we go about it more like the early Greek philosophers than modern scientists: reasoning from our limited experience.

According to the ancient Greek philosophers there are exactly 7 types of love.

Music has been used as a tool of healing since ancient times, appearing in the writings of the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Plato.

Around 400 BC, Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus proposed that the world is made of atoms.

He argues that the development of quantum mechanics and chaos theory has rendered obsolete the linear, deterministic mechanics of Newtonian physics and prompts a second look at the science of form and geometry favoured by the Greek philosophers.

The story begins with the first ideas of the early Greek philosophers — Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and others — leading to the theory of the four elements of Plato and Aristotle.

Since the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, belief in a spherical Earth was universal among intellectuals.

That early Christian theory was largely built on the works of Greek philosophers.

Reader of the profoundest of books... ancient Zen Masters, Hindu Sages, Christian and Sufi Mystics, Greek philosophers, quantum physicists, etc..

Jewish thought, particularly in the writings of the philosopher Philo, was influenced by Plato and other Greek philosophers.

Correspondingly, we would need a wider teleology than that of the Greek philosophers or theistic religions of the past if we are once again to see purpose in the scheme of things.

These ideas were first developed by ancient Greek philosophers, then refined in dogmatic controversies of the early centuries of the Church, and subsequently taught systematically by the scholastics, especially St Thomas.

To unpack that a little, he went with the Greek philosophers in that they believed the highest morality was what any - reasonable - person - would - do - in - those - circumstances.

The Greek philosophers projected the essence of this order more in terms of reason than mythology.

A wide array of modern minds have thought the same: Hegel lamented that philosophy is no longer «practiced as a private art, as it was by the Greeks,» Heidegger called for a return to the Greek grammar of being, and Kant claimed that «the ancient Greek philosophers remained more faithful to the Idea of the philosopher than their modern counterparts have done.»

Then, works of Greek philosophers were translated into Latin language (very popular in Europe in that time) owing to Christian philosophers (called «scholastics»).

I can recall a discussion in which Paul Tillich said that theology was due to Greek philosophers who became Christians and couldn't live as Christians without giving account of themselves in meaningful terms.

Death is not something natural, willed by God, as in the thought of the Greek philosophers; it is rather something unnatural, abnormal, opposed to God....

The accomplishments of Aristotle, Euclid, Galen, Ptolemy, and the other Greek philosophers, mathematicians, and physicians had a stunning impact on the Arabs and inspired many to study and comment on the books.

The Greek philosophers never found a satisfactory explanation.

There were philosophical debates among Greek philosophers as to exactly what this word means, but common to their usage was the idea expressed in the adage, «two substances can not occupy the same space at the same time.»

Death is not something willed by God, as in the thought of the Greek philosophers; it is rather something, abnormal, opposed to God.

Corresponding to the immortality of the soul, as depicted by the Greek philosophers, there is a particular judgment immediately after death.

Still the Prophets had something which no one else in all the history of the world possessed — neither the great Chinese sages, nor the Greek philosophers, nor the saints of India.

Morality goes back to the writings we have of the Greek Philosophers.

The ironic thing, however, is that it was by studying the early Greek Philosophers, especially Aristotle, that I realized that maybe the concept of rewards really is a metaphor for the internal reward we reap when we live a life of virtue (their words) or sow to the Spirit (Paul's words).

See Werner Jaeger's discussion of this passage in The Theology of he Early Greek Philosophers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947), p. 25.

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.

Certainly, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, religions of the ancient Egyptians and even ancient Greek philosophers had this in common.

One can not finish this well «written and pleasantly accessible defense of Hellenic civilization without wondering if the fierce resentment against Attic superiority (and Thornton quotes a great deal of such resentful scholarship in the early chapters) does not conceal a closet nihilism» a hostility to the light of Being first honored and brought to expression by the Greek philosophers.

To the Greek philosophers this seemed anthropomorphic and demeaning of God.

Fast forward quite a bit... and the Hellenistic Greek philosophers were talking about what turned out to be very close to atoms.

Hellenistic and Greek philosophers thought, and studied, and WERE very educated for the time.

Only a few Greek philosophers dared whisper that the gods were nothing — that they were wooden statues decked with sheet metal that must be borne by human hand.

It is a limitation of New Thought that, like most traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek wisdom teachings.

Classical Greek philosophers, about 500 BC, formalized the concept of «Destiny» through stories anthropomorphizing the idea of «fate».

He had to confront the indifferent, for example Festus the governor who declared him mad (cf Acts 26:24), or with the Greek philosophers who ridiculed him, but of whom some wished to hear him speak again of the resurrection (cf Acts 17:32).

(See W. Jaeger's statement in his Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, p. 177: «The concept of auctoritas which is later to be of such decisive importance for the attitude of the Church in questions of faith, is entirely missing in Greek thought»).

So it is quite evident that their concept of God is neither the pagan conception of the Greek philosophers nor the strictly orthodox Islamic conception.

Numerous Greek philosophers say identical things in 600 to 400 BC.

That's how the Greek philosophers eventually got back into western Europe through Islamic Spain.