Sentences with phrase «ancient quarrel»

The conflict between literature and moral philosophy is so old that Plato referred to the «ancient quarrel» between them.

Disputed questions about the nature of Christ's divinity or the details of human salvation are not ancient quarrels that modern Christians ought to forget.

Not exact matches

The latter half of the contention, but not the former, is in tune with modern belief; the former, but not the latter, was in tune with ancient belief: that both are valid and inseparable is the hypothesis of a philosophy that tries for a stand beyond the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns.»

For the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Postmoderns.

The experience of many couples confirms a statement by Terentius, a playwright of ancient Rome: «Great love was never lost by small quarrels.

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Like those of some hapless royal in search of a «role», Tate Britain's troubles over what exactly it's for boil down to the quarrel of ancients and moderns.

And I'd have to say that if I have to save my life by winning an argument with oil men in a bar in Midland, Tex., on this topic, I would go in with some lumps of black mudstone from the ancient rock record, I'd go in with the established figures on our present input of carbon dioxide, and I'd say which bit of this observational science do you guys quarrel with, and why?