Sentences with phrase «as a philosopher»

Also, they do not lose status when they make these efforts in the same way as philosophers do.
What does the «I» mean — my kind of consciousness as a philosopher?
Moreover, scientists are generally as incompetent at philosophy as philosophers are at science.
I mean, see, I was trained professionally as a philosopher.
It is just a silly politician posing as a philosopher.
I do like many artists as well as philosophers and thinkers and there are many I'd like to work or wanted to work with.
The context of this quotation is Whitehead's acknowledgment of Leibniz as a philosopher of organism.
There is, of course, an astounding paradox to the human being which the word unique records, and unsophisticated folk as well as philosophers know that the paradox is real — that is, ontological.
In his long career as a philosopher at the University of Southern California, he earned a reputation for being perhaps the foremost scholar on Edmund Husserl, whose direct realism argues, counter to the constructivism of Immanuel Kant, that there is indeed an objective reality that is at least partially knowable via the mind.
The Christian philosopher can not as a philosopher speak of the unique act of God in Jesus Christ, just as he can say nothing of particular events in any area, but he can and should so structure his ideas as to allow for such unique acts and particular events.
There he lives in a house that dates to the 1300s and once served as a meeting place for thinkers such as the philosopher John Locke and the scientist Robert Boyle.
Curiously, leading contemporary advocates of civic education in schools, such as the philosophers Amy Gutmann and Stephen Macedo, admit that it is ineffective.
Until 2013, I worked as a philosopher at Oxford and Princeton universities, and some time before that in the distant past, I played bass guitar for Cut Copy.
For just this reason Marx saw Bentham as a philosopher with the mind of a small shopkeeper.»
Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher by Peter J. Stanlis ISI, 350 pages, $ 28 Poor Robert Frost.
Writing as a philosopher not an astrobiologist (nor geobiologist, for that matter), may I suggest that the one, universal criterion for life is evolution.
«It has always been my practice,» says Schweitzer, «not to say anything when speaking as a philosopher that goes beyond the absolutely logical exercise of thought.
Originally trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent, Belgian - born Roelstraete has worked at the MuHKA since 2003.
Trained as a philosopher at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, Daniel Baird is a writer and editor focused on art, culture, and ideas.
An omnivorous reader, influenced by the poet Rimbaud, as well as philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and with a love of music but little formal training in fine art, Nolan turned to painting at the age of 21, following in the footsteps of abstract painters like Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy.
He worked just as philosophers and artists alike were pursuing logical foundations, only to find logic dissolving into paradox.
«How (we ask) is it possible for research to burrow deeper and deeper into the very heart of being, and come back to us with no news of having come across, even having go nearer, to the heart of being as philosophers conceive it?
Then, as the philosopher Karl Jaspers liked to say, «something serious happened.»
It was there that Royce found his calling as a philosopher.
Essayists like Francis Bacon are regarded as philosophers among essayists who can write anything about any topic.
Honarvar acts as both a philosopher poet musing on flawed societal constructs and as a shamanistic mad - scientist surgically binding bodies to birth new hybrid human futures.
As philosopher Peter Kreeft says, most of us are not really living because we don't know why we're here.
Buridan was unusual in that he was a diocesan priest at a time when most academics were either Dominicans or Franciscans, and in that he remained in the Arts faculty as a philosopher when most intellectuals of his caliber saw philosophy as a stage on the way to a doctorate in theology.
Or, if it must be called a philosophical decision, that is an appropriate designation so long as the philosopher's activity is understood as an essential impulse of human Being.
We can also grant, I think, that Heidegger did indeed surpass Hegel as a philosopher of the twilight, and in two senses.
Aurelius was one of the great emperors of Rome, known to many as the Philosopher King.
As philosopher Jason Brennan points out, even libertarians — and libertarians are, shall we say, fond of property rights — do not regard property rights as absolute.
We do not choose the members of our judiciary because of their eminence as philosophers or their insight as moralists.
As the philosopher Krishnamurti suggested, «There are no distractions.»
As the philosopher Roger Scruton puts it, «A society based on agape [selfless love] alone is all very well, but it will not reproduce itself: nor will it produce the crucial relation — that between parent and child — which is the basis on which we can begin to understand our relation to God.
Part of Maritain's appeal as a philosopher of art stems from his intimate contact with the creative atmosphere of early - twentieth - century France.
Apart from the problems with the idea of «fixed probabilities», one might think that Papineau's readiness to surrender to the physicists the last word on human thinking imperils his employment as a philosopher.
As the philosopher Russell Hittinger recently pointed out to me, we lack in ordinary discourse these days the vocabulary to speak of a morally interconnected universe in which great events and great disturbances are echoed even across the stars.
Insofar as philosophers now attempt to reach final conclusions, they characteristically abandon the traditional questions of philosophy and limit themselves to much more specialized ones.
We are, as philosopher Charles Taylor points out in A Secular Age, buffered selves operating in a disenchanted world.
For example, only we are moral beings: As the philosopher Hans Jonas put it, «an «ought to» can issue only from man and is alien to everything outside him.»
As philosophers repeatedly insist, we have no possibility of achieving a «God's eye view» or a «view from nowhere.»
As the philosopher Richard Rorty noted after 9/11, you can not declare war against a method of action.
As the philosopher Gunther Anders put it, we move into an apocalyptic mode when we no longer find ourselves asking «How shall we live?»
A nonperfectionist ethic is often unpopular, since, as philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said, people «have a pathetic desire to find themselves starting from an intellectual basis which is clear, distinct, and certain.»
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