Before there were psychologists, the issues of life were
addressed by philosophers.
Not exact matches
Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian
by being more firmly grasped
by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight,
addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the
philosopher.»
Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as
philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected
by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to
address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.
«Why this association was important in first century Palestine was
addressed by «Stories circulated to the effect that Alexander of Macedonia was not only the son of Philip II, but also of the god Zeus - Ammon (Plutarch, Parallel Lives, «Alexander» 2.1 - 3.2); Plato was the son of Ariston and the god Apollo (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent
Philosophers 3.1 - 2), and Augustus was the son of Octavius as well as the god Apollo (Suetonius, Lives o f the Caesars 2.4.1 - 7).
The reason I
addressed the problem to Hartshorne initially is that, from one end of his thought to the other, he has made strong claims in behalf of his use, presumably in contrast to that of some other speculative
philosophers, of modern formal logic, and I wanted to assure myself that he was under no illusion concerning the status accorded formal logic
by many logicians and the force of the attempts to have, in Ernest Nagel's expression, «logic without ontology.»
This is an old challenge and thought
by many
philosophers such as Immanuel Kant (1979) to
address this issue in his work
Incidentally, the above quote about «fashioning the will» can be found in the publication,
Address to the German Nation,
by German
philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814).
This discourse
by women artists and
philosophers addressing issues of female subjectivity and ownership of sexual imagery for their own desire and pleasure continues to be challenged and explored today
by women in art and popular culture.
In the Focus, Slovenian cultural theorist and
philosopher Renata Salecl takes an in - depth look at Holzer's Lustmord series, which was precipitated
by the events in the former Yugoslavia and boldly
addresses the atrocities committed in war.
Highly influenced
by phenomenological
philosopher, Maurice Merleau - Ponty; Nesbit harnesses philosophical investigations of human perception to
address issues within image making in an effort to not only exist as an object, or momentous glance, but as an invitation for a suspended visceral exchange.
There, well - known
philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to
address and minimize risks such as those presented
by climate change.
The broader integrative argument is structured to
address the gap between «is» and «ought» that many
philosophers frequently bring up when considering the science of the matter, in a way that is informed
by both the science and basic logic.
In my keynote
address yesterday to the IAEA's quadrennial ministerial meeting in the United Arab Emirates, I trace the anti-nuclear movement's roots to a famous essay
by the German
philosopher (and, yes, Nazi) Martin Heidegger.
On 7 March,
philosopher of technology Dr. Peter Asaro, a co-founder and vice-chair of ICRAC,
addressed the board on civil society concerns with autonomous weapons and described the coordinated NGO response provided
by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.