Sentences with phrase «many ancient thinkers»

Which is appropriate, after all, since most of the ancient thinkers who have inspired her work certainly understood that our quest for eudaimonia is profoundly dependent upon the social order in which we live and think.

All our best achievements, all our highest hopes and aspirations, all that the mind and soul of man has attained or even dreamed, this ancient thinker asserts, is in accord with the deepest nature of things.

Here, Paul, is extraordinarily important, for he is our first purely apocalyptic thinker, and so far as we now know the first ancient thinker fully to draw forth the subject of consciousness, an «I» or subject which he could know as a dichotomous subject, a subject wholly divided or doubled between an old «I» of «flesh» (sarx) and a new «I» of Spirit (pneuma).

De Lubac traces the searchings of ancient thinkers whose restless questioning revealed a sense of divine calling but without the means of interpreting the signs pointing to it.

It should not strike us as ridiculously anachronistic to make such an attempt, even though it is notoriously dangerous to approach an ancient thinker with modern categories.

Many ancient thinkers conceived of the supreme God as far removed from the material world and too pure to have anything directly to do with it.

We pulled together 20 ideas — articulated by everyone from contemporary leaders and culture - makers to ancient thinkers and timeless scriptures — that will not only help you navigate the challenges of dealing with money, but can also change your view of it.

Supernatural intervention was much less a problem for ancient thinkers than it has become for us, with our conception of the orderly processes of nature; for the race, as for the individual, «heaven lies about us in our infancy.»

Thus, for example, where modern discussions of friendship might emphasize the importance of «self - disclosure as the basis for intimacy and trust between friends,» ancient thinkers simply did not value self - disclosure.

Without muddying the ancient thinker's herculean intellect, his understanding of the brain was a bit off par.

«The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man without trials», the ancient thinker Confucius once wrote of adversity.

This also seems true of your own work: one of the many ways that all ages are contemporaneous in your new book is that ancient thinkers coexist with modern painters — a quote from Mark Rothko, the homage to Agnes Martin.

Not exact matches

Yes, Hindu thinkers such as the first Hindu missionary to America Swami Vivekananda have argued against caste, and the Indian Constitution outlawed caste - based discrimination, but the caste system, both ancient and religious, will not be swatted away so easily by either reformers or legislators.

I've rounded out the faith traditions of my younger years with ancient and new thinkers.

All ancient talk about rhetoric refers to three elements — ethos, pathos and logos; 18th - century thinkers added a fourth — occasion or context.

Sometimes the distinctions were rather artificially drawn; yet their point is clear — ancient Christian thinkers knew that the Bible could be read in different ways and for different purposes.

It was used by Greek literary scholars in the ancient world to interpret the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and it was employed by Jewish thinkers — for example, Philo of Alexandria — to interpret the Pentateuch.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

The unworldly thinker is a figure of ancient legend: Socrates himself, of course, losing himself in thought at the threshold of a dinner party, as described in Plato's Symposium; or Thales, who reportedly fell into a well from looking at the stars; or Diogenes the Cynic, whose only request to Alexander the Great upon meeting him was that he get out of his sunlight.

We may not be happy with the particular fashion in which this conviction was expressed in the several classical formulations; we may seek for and hope to find a way of stating this conviction which does not depend upon the philosophy of ancient Greek thinkers.

The most ancient of the specifically «process» thinkers is probably Heraclitus.

@ Doug — We have more technical knowledge for sure, but yes, I'd say that many of the ancients were MUCH better thinkers than most of us today.

man «fundamentally» is God, has been stated not only by ancient heathen, but also by many modern thinkers.

Whitehead and the process thinkers continue to be important and interesting primarily because, like almost no other philosophers and theologians since the ancient Hebrews, they not only accept history, but emphasize it.

The ancient Christian thinker Irenaeus of Lyons once said that «the glory of God is man fully alive.»

Christian thinkers of the late second century followed in the path of those ancient philosophers for whom «change was the ontological scandal.»

Far too frequently an appeal is made to some biblical passage or series of passages, or to ancient Christian thinkers, as if this would readily settle whatever question is under discussion.

Such a time was the thirteenth century when there arrived at the newly emerging universities of Europe some of the teaching of the ancient Greek thinkers, Aristotle in particular.

The alienation of the thinker from society is an ancient and a universal theme; perhaps its modern variant is the alienation of thought from society.

If, on occasion, Konstan seems to press this argument too far, bypassing a little too quickly the sense one sometimes gets that classical thinkers did have tendencies to ground friendship in utility, his argument nonetheless makes a strong case for a significant degree of overlap between ancient and modern views of friendship.

The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface.

And by the way, it was a good year for science because that was also the year that Vesalius publishes his influential book on human anatomy, correcting some of the mistakes of the ancient Greek thinkers, which actually is what Copernicus was doing, too.

Marchant's account of the deciphering of this startlingly advanced machine — the world's first computer — paints a vivid portrait of both modern code breakers and the wildly creative thinkers of ancient Greece.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, it became an «intellectual fad,» he said, for thinkers to cite ancient Greek and Roman sources rather than scientists of the Middle Ages.

Plato, the ancient Greek thinker, thought that government by philosopher - king would be best.

This exciting exhibition will see an unprecedented intervention of the Parthenon galleries, where a selection of Rodin's work - including his iconic sculptures The Thinker and The Kiss - will be shown alongside the ancient Greek sculptures which inspired them.

But for Maria Brito, the similarities became apparent after her research into the reasons why Classical Greece became such a reference point for Western civilisation: «Ancient Greece was, in many ways, similar to what New York is nowadays: an art - centric place filled with curious thinkers, creative artists, and centres for cultural advancement propelled by a cosmopolitan view of the world.»

, with the Marianne Boesky Gallery, she pays homage to the inventive nature of renowned ancient Islamic mystic - thinkers, explores historicity and temporality through medium and color, and provides a totemic symbol for hope and protection, perhaps inspired by the future of her native country, Syria, amid the backdrop of her adopted American landscape.

Analogies between painting and music had long been common; many thinkers had attempted to codify the supposed expressiveness of colours, lines, and shapes; and more than one fairly ancient sketch might compete for the honour of being called the first abstract picture.