Sentences with phrase «many contemporary philosophers»

His work is not necessarily the best moral philosophy now being written — Iris Murdoch, for one, may offer a rival philosophy he would find difficult to answer — but his analysis of our moral paradox is so acute that he, perhaps uniquely among contemporary philosophers, offers the possibility of its solution.

Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination of induction to the modern sense of the term, in which it is construed as a method of inference which permits some prediction of future events on the basis of past events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance of the ancient meaning of induction.

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to which would only unnecessarily complicate comparison).

Nothing is born of anything else, and nothing is necessary to the existence of any other thing,» so wrote a contemporary philosopher (A. Consentino).

(This correspondence between Buber and Niebuhr will be published in Maurice Friedman, ed., «Martin Buber» section, Interrogations of Contemporary Philosophers, ed.

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to...

Many contemporary philosophers would refuse to read further, once they come upon the claim that what we see are mere colored shapes.

If, as I suggested in the last section, the obvious and oft - noted differences between Russell and Whitehead symbolize the current analytic - speculative split, then the kinds of similarities and (perhaps even more importantly) the areas of mutual influence, indebtedness, and philosophic enrichment to which Professor Kuntz rightly points can suggest to contemporary philosophers a neutral «dialogical territory» beyond the present, hostile philosophic «demilitarized zone,» which is no longer itself viable, interesting, or worthy of the vocation of philosophy.

In his «friendly criticism,» which we enjoy, Ed regrets that we've given so much room to contemporary philosophers of religion, for example Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga, who argue for «theistic personalism.»

As his cognitional theory is explained by Elshtain, the fifth - century theologian would be at ease with contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Lonergan, whose theory of knowing begins with self - appropriation.

Perhaps more than any other contemporary philosopher, Charles Taylor has helped us understand the way people think about how to live.

Few contemporary philosophers in the West have reckoned with India's complex experience of democracy; and even fewer have engaged with it as vigorously as she does in The Clash Within.

Contemporary philosophers have also shown some of the varied ways in which religious language is used.

A view of scientific explanation as metaphorical has been developed as a supplement to the deductive model of explanation by some contemporary philosophers of science (Black 1962, pp. 25 - 47 and pp. 219 - 243; Hesse 1966, pp. 157 - 177; MacCormac 1971).

«Ninety percent of contemporary philosophers see their principal task to be that of beating religion out of men's heads,» he wrote to his mother in 1961.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

Few contemporary philosophers have works considered important by non-academics.

There are exactly parallel views of scientific models that have been held by many contemporary philosophers of science, namely, that models are purely subjective, psychological, and adopted by individuals for private heuristic purposes.

For example Marx had contemporary philosophers that considered themselves Socialists but criticized Marx «Socialism» (thus «Marxism» and not «Socialism»).

The contemporary philosopher AC Grayling discusses education in the following way: «The aim of liberal education is to produce people who go on learning after their formal education has ceased who think, question, and know how to find answers when they need them.

The publication includes an essay by renowned American contemporary philosopher Timothy Morton, an essay and insightful interview of the artist by Ziba Ardalan, Founder and Director of Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art.

Trained as a fine artist, he continues to work as an interdisciplinary visual artist, collaborating with physicists and contemporary philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.

The exhibition will also bring a publication in conjunction with the show that includes various contributions from the exhibiting artists as well as a previously unpublished essay by contemporary philosopher Graham Harman.

It is accompanied by a full - colour publication that includes two insightful essays, one by contemporary philosopher Timothy Morton and the other by Ziba Ardalan, along with her interview of the artist.

Highlights in 2014 include contemporary philosopher Graham Harman from the American University in Cairo.

Contemporary philosophers have become dry enough to inspire formally - minded minds.

Not exact matches

The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

As the contemporary Thomist John Haldane points out, «Philosophers inspired by Aquinas have had little to say about aesthetics.»

God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People by jerome (yehudah) gellman academic studies, 120 pages, $ 59 As German - Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig observed a hundred years ago, Jewish chosenness is not one of the thirteen principles of....

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

It has long been recognized, for example, that some relationship existed between Paul and his contemporary, Seneca, the Stoic philosopher.

Emil L. Fackenheim, the distinguished theologian and philosopher, is a Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

To a large degree, these theologians have followed Whitehead's thought, but they have also used the thought of Charles Hartshorne, the contemporary American philosopher whom I have quoted earlier and who has developed Whiteheadian themes and added some of his own.

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

It is his opinion that we can best state the evangelical message and the evangelical demand in the idiom of contemporary existentialism, more particularly by use of the analysis of the human situation made in the writings of the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

But contemporary moral and political philosophers rarely offer sustained arguments against the metaphysical project as such.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

The same basic idea is found in the contemporary Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber, who contrasts the «I - Thou» with the «I - It» orientation.

Like the true philosopher, as opposed to the philodoxer, Koontz confines his work within the metaleptic reality whereby his novels emerge as a contemporary dialectics with the various protagonists engaged in rescuing the truth of reality from either the lie or the distortion.

These latter - day celebrants will include most contemporary Catholic and Protestant theologians and several contemporary secular philosophers.

The new book on contemporary French (and Catholic) political philosopher Chantal Delsol, Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit: Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol is now out.

Along the way to proving his thesis, Jenkins rewrites the book on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (his reading, and his devastating criticisms of Oxford's influential Jonathan Barnes, set the standard for such scholarship) and he shows how even the most decorated of contemporary «philosophers of religion» (Plantinga, Stump, Penelhaum, et al.) grossly misread Aquinas.

A view held by many contemporary metaphysicians is that the problem of induction, so much discussed by philosophers of science, arises only because of mistaken metaphysical views; in particular views (deriving from Hume) about the nature of the causal relation and / or about the internal relations among different entities.1 Contrary to this view, I will try...

The assessment of a philosopher's importance by his or her contemporaries is a risky business, for future generations have a way of unmaking the judgments of their predecessors.1 Yet, by standard measures, Charles Hartshorne (1897 - 2000) was one of the premiere philosophers of the twentieth century.

Blaise Pascal, brilliant French mathematician, philosopher, and contemporary of Hobbes, saw the modern problem as clearly as did the Englishman.

The familiar immediate presentation of the contemporary world, which philosophers of the day described as the awareness of sense - data, is called by Whitehead «Experience in the Mode of Presentational Immediacy.»

The dictum that «the Sermon on the Mount is not for statesmen,» has become a predominant influence upon Christian political theory in our time.3 One contemporary Christian philosopher rejects all naïve ethical idealism in politics with the assertion: «The Christian kingdom is not of this world, it belongs to the realm of the spirit.

Nevertheless, most of these persons would probably agree with the recent statement of a contemporary Christian philosopher that «Christian belief means accepting the resurrection of Christ, and therefore it seems to involve believing in at least one miracle.

As our greatest educator and one of our greatest philosophers he has had an enormous influence on contemporary thought.

MacIntyre, who portrayed the decay of Western ethics in After Virtue, is the philosopher who defines this new traditionalism, but its most vigorous spokesperson in contemporary religious life is Hauerwas.