Sentences with phrase «old philosopher in»

Stevens was a student of Santayana and titled the poem, «To An Old Philosopher in Rome.»

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When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

One of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new possibility in the doctrine of God's being.

Theocracy is based on studies of an old book or two written by philosophers and politicians in addition to stories handed down over generations with no real physical evidence to analyze.

Unluckily just when scientists are opening their minds to a nondeterministic view of cosmic order many philosophers, here and in England, are still playing the old game (as old as ancient stoicism) of trying to reconcile human freedom with strict causal determination of all events.

There, on «the threshold of heaven,» as the English critic Lucy Beckett has suggested, the old philosopher may at last have identified poetic beauty not as a creative substitute for divine revelation, but as an instance of «our participation in truth.»

When I told my old man how much I loved Thoreau, he said — yes, but he's a philosopher — speaks with tongues of angels, maybe but not in the same league with a true believer.

In his book Science, Truth and Democracy, scientific philosopher Philip Kitcher argues that the old way of doing science with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, must be...

But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and won the consideration of all who now had turned their attention to him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of the philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life in future upon that of Apollonius.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [«the voice of the people = the voice of God»], as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

While German philosophers tended toward various forms of nihilism after Kant, «it was Husserl's great merit,» wrote Hilda Graef, Stein's biographer, «to have dispelled these mists of relativistic agnosticism by reaffirming the two old truths: the existence of objective truth and the existence of a knowable world in which we live.»

What is more, it is an old conviction of mine that the philosopher's opposite in this type of debate is not the theologian, but the believer who is informed by the exegete; I mean, the believer who seeks to understand himself through a better understanding of the texts of his faith.

When we place Whitehead in a new relationship with the postmodern world view we realize that what some might claim to be the arcane ravings of an old philosopher actually prophesy the coming of a new age.

Gilbert Ryles» famous critique of dualism, for example, is unsatisfactory since in the final analysis it differs little from the old - fashioned materialism of behaviorists like J.B. Watson, for whom distinct «inner» states of awareness do not exist.18 In general, it is «irritating» to Lewis that so many distinguished philosophers fail to recognize the appropriateness of «the Platonic - Cartesian wain the final analysis it differs little from the old - fashioned materialism of behaviorists like J.B. Watson, for whom distinct «inner» states of awareness do not exist.18 In general, it is «irritating» to Lewis that so many distinguished philosophers fail to recognize the appropriateness of «the Platonic - Cartesian waIn general, it is «irritating» to Lewis that so many distinguished philosophers fail to recognize the appropriateness of «the Platonic - Cartesian way.

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

This attitude, which has been widespread in non-Roman and non-Orthodox theological circles, is responsible for the contemptuous dismissal of those theologians (sometimes conveniently tagged «outworn liberals» or «old - fashioned modernists») who attempted in the past or who still attempt in the present to employ in their work the insights of the process - philosophers.

We find some men — the Sufis — putting their faith in the «unveiling» of the mystic, others placing theirs in the transmitted tradition, and the philosophers continuing their old neglect of the objective study of the outside world.

In 2001, «Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone», the first movie of the series, was released followed by twelve - year - old Radcliffe in the foresIn 2001, «Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone», the first movie of the series, was released followed by twelve - year - old Radcliffe in the foresin the forest.

This is an old challenge and thought by many philosophers such as Immanuel Kant (1979) to address this issue in his work

Whether the Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (known as Lucretius) coined the expression in the first century BC, or merely repeated it, his is the oldest known reference: «quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum» (what is food for one man may be bitter poison to others).

Heraclitus, that old pre-Socratic philosopher who shuffled along the streets of Athens in 450 B.C. thinking deep thoughts, called reality a river, and famously noted, «You can't step in the same river twice.»

In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest HockinIn American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hockinin his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hockinin the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking.

Their black muzzle and whiskers earned them the nickname «bearded dogs» in old folk songs.The Griff's big black eyes — described as «almost human» — coupled with a fringed beard and mustache covering his short muzzle, gives him the air of a worldly, French - speaking philosopher.

His portraits refer to Christian iconography like the holy Mary or to German soldiers (the young generation in Germany mostly knows their grandfathers just from old photographs of the 30ties because they died in World War II) or philosophers of the romantic era discussing the German identity in the context of the poly national state.

A selection of drawings from Alfraji's Ali's Boat series is featured alongside a projected animation of million - year - old footprints discovered in 2013 and a short film by the late poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant.

Throughout Art Inspiring Change, eighty children and four artists — all chosen by the children — have been working alongside a philosopher and Turner Contemporary «navigators» in four Margate primary schools; the youngest are just five years old.

The title of the exhibition, chosen by Demester, refers to the world of old philosophers, in which admitting that one knows nothing was a sign of the highest virtue.

In December 1926, distraught after the death of her old friend Rilke, she met and sought religious guidance from her neighbor, the neo-Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain.

It is most famously contained in the Apology, Plato's account of Socrates» own encounter with the legal system, the trial in which the older philosopher was convicted and sentenced to death.