Sentences with phrase «among most philosophers»

Indeed the lack of serious engagement by philosophers with science, particularly physics, is all too apparent, including among most philosophers and theologians within the Church during the last century.

Not exact matches

The first is relatively uncontroversial to most believers except, perhaps, to evangelical philosophers and fundamentalists of various types — namely, that laypeople are in no position to adjudicate disputes among experts in New Testament scholarship because the scholars have an expertise in languages and ancient history that laypeople lack.

In his introduction, Oden throws down a «gauntlet»: He challenges the reader to assemble a collection of passages from any ten major philosophers as funny as those he has compiled from Kierkegaard's writings; furthermore, he makes bold provisionally — until this challenge is met — to declare Kierkegaard «as, among philosophers, the most amusing.»

Recently many environmental philosophers in the West have come to agree.6 One of the most influential among them is J. Baird Callicott, professor of philosophy and natural resources at the University of Wisconsin, author of numerous influential works on environmental ethics and foremost interpreter of the pioneer of Western environmental philosophy, Aldo Leopold.

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

Nevertheless, it was among the scientist - philosophers of Greece that reason was carried to the highest pitch of development and that the activity of reason came to be prized most highly for its own sake.

His tour culminates in a description of the modern resurgence of Christian philosophy among today's most eminent philosophers engaging with the New Atheists.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.&raMost intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.&ramost of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

Rawls» 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, is justly called the most influential work in political philosophy of the last century, at least among academic philosophers.

Among Descartes» many contributions (he was a brilliant mathematician and scientist as well), the «cogito» (as philosophers call it) remains his most significant contribution to the history of ideas.

Richard Serra, the man of steel, really is something of a superhero among artists — he works bigger, aims higher, and thinks harder (he's a philosopher, too) than most of his peers.