Sentences with phrase «ancient greek philosophers»

He claims the ancient Greek philosophers Anaximander and Democritus as inspirations.
Originally written and performed in Athens in 507 B.C. and winner of Best New Dramedy at the 508 B.C. Dionysia Festival, the chaotic Okhlos will have modern gamers stepping into the sandals of ancient Greek philosophers to lead angry mobs of irate citizens and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece.
We see games like Chess and Go like the classical music to our modern pop songs, or like the ancient Greek philosophers.
The ancient Greek philosophers didn't need psychology or statistics to see the trap.
According to the ancient Greek philosophers there are exactly 7 types of love.
Since the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, belief in a spherical Earth was universal among intellectuals.
These ideas were first developed by ancient Greek philosophers, then refined in dogmatic controversies of the early centuries of the Church, and subsequently taught systematically by the scholastics, especially St Thomas.
A wide array of modern minds have thought the same: Hegel lamented that philosophy is no longer «practiced as a private art, as it was by the Greeks,» Heidegger called for a return to the Greek grammar of being, and Kant claimed that «the ancient Greek philosophers remained more faithful to the Idea of the philosopher than their modern counterparts have done.»
Certainly, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, religions of the ancient Egyptians and even ancient Greek philosophers had this in common.
It is a limitation of New Thought that, like most traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek wisdom teachings.
For the ancient Greek philosophers, if one may oversimplify, the world was governed and ordered by a cosmic principle of reason.
The form of something, as the ancient Greek philosophers recognized, is intrinsic to its very being.
Paraphrasing the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, author Will Durant wrote, «We are what we repeatedly do.
Through its research, Google made the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle proud by proving, «The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.»
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus stated the argument this way:
Regarding the moon: - The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (d. 428 BC) reasoned that the Sun and Moon were both giant spherical rocks, and that the latter reflected the light of the former.
An ancient Greek philosopher — indeed the greatest philosopher of all — Socrates, spoke with his followers shortly before his death.
It's not often that a story about a food product for the American market begins with an ancient Greek philosopher, but this one does.
The ancient Greek philosopher deserves our homage, and Armand Marie Leroi delivers it in his edifying and excellent book
Two and a half millennia ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus imagined slicing bread into ever - smaller pieces, down to irreducible specks, and the concept of the atom was born.
Democritus, the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician, envisioned structure in the building blocks of everything and he called the basis for this structure an atom; he wrote, «nothing exists except atoms and empty space: everything else is opinion.»
This repeats the point of the great ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle who thought that it is of great practical importance to decide what we are trying to achieve «and if, like archers, we have a target to aim at, we are more likely to hit the right mark» [1094a24].
In part two of our look at the ancient Greek philosopher, we ask students at a California school about the Socratic teaching method and the questions it inspires.
And then in 1865, just as Darwin was completing the final amendments to the fourth edition of Origin, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle stepped out of the shadows as a claimant.
Considering the philanthropic aim of the auction and the fact that the painting is signed by Branson himself, insiders have estimated that the piece will fetch a higher price than that of Engels» recent portrait of ancient Greek philosopher Hippocrates, which sold for $ 45,000.
** Epicurus (Samos, 10 February 342 B.C. — Athens, 270 B.C.), ancient Greek philosopher Source: Wikipedia
It's under debate whether the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Phythagoras banned the use of all animal products or whether he was okay with using oxen to plow fields.
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, «Change is the only constant in life.»

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In his historical tour of the proofs for and against God's existence, Nathan Schneider, a journalist and activist whose last work treated the Occupy movement, unfolds the story of provers and their arguments from the ancient Greeks through medieval Muslims to today's analytic philosophers and New Atheists.
Long ago in the ancient timeperiods of Greek and Roman civilizations, there were these Theological Philosophers who made stories as to just exactly what was the smallest things and their roles in the meanings of Life.
They include Protagoras, a 5th - century BCE Greek philosopher, [5] Sanjaya Belatthaputta, a 5th - century BCE Indian philosopher, [6] and the Nasadiya Sukta concerning the origin of the universe in the Rig Veda, an ancient Sanskrit text, which is one of the primary scriptures of Vedic Hinduism.
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this truth was knowable through reason and logic; for the Christian philosophers it was knowable by faith (although faith and reason were not necessarily contradictory).
Reader of the profoundest of books... ancient Zen Masters, Hindu Sages, Christian and Sufi Mystics, Greek philosophers, quantum physicists, etc..
Music has been used as a tool of healing since ancient times, appearing in the writings of the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Plato.
Plato, the ancient Greek thinker, thought that government by philosopher - king would be best.
Whitmarsh traces a lineage of unbelievers among the ancient Greeks that includes the historian Thucydides, the philosopher Democritus, and the poet Diagoras of Melos.
# 3 Tell me about your best trade In ancient Greek lore, there was a story of the philosopher Solon and the King of Lydia, Croesus.
Ancient Egyptians may have worshipped the dogs, and Greek and Roman philosophers wrote about them.
Ligare reaches a poetic level of perfection in his paintings, which take inspiration from the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and artists and often feature elements of Central California's coastal landscape.
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