Sentences with phrase «appeal as a philosopher»

Part of Maritain's appeal as a philosopher of art stems from his intimate contact with the creative atmosphere of early - twentieth - century France.

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Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

They appeal to these realities as metaphors to recall Whitehead's memorable statement, speaking of the words and phrases which philosophers use: «they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.»

Utilitarian moral philosophers may likewise appeal to process metaphysics as a powerful external justification for their ethical theory.

Pythagoras is the philosopher to whom he appeals in De Ordine, and in the De civitate Dei the way of seeking wisdom, philosophia, was a manifestation of humility (AS 10:79 - 89).

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.