Sentences with phrase «as a philosopher when»

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.

Not exact matches

However, as said by the Roman philosopher Seneca, «Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity.»

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

«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.

After a few seconds of silence he recovered and said that the Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft, a frequent sight at Fenway [home of the Boston Red Sox] and a man whose baseball passions are properly ordered, says that when he gets to heaven, as he hopes to do, he will ask God two questions: why did he allow evil and why did he favour the Yankees?

But truth is as badly stretched when one sees the fundamentally Jewish Paul as a Hellenistic or Stoic philosopher.

In the ancient debates, scientists and philosophers used criteria such as reaction to stimuli, modes of nutrition, and origin of motion to determine when the embryo receives a soul and can be considered a person.

Process thought developed in the evolutionary philosophies of the late nineteenth century, and has a kinship with the «emergent revolutionary» theorists.38 The process philosophers are interested not only in an evolutionary description of the cosmos, but in what happens to all the traditional metaphysical problems when time is seen as an ingredient of being itself.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

When death came to be understood as the ultimate evil rather than as a stage on the way to eternal life, utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham found it easy to dismiss capital punishment as «useless annihilation.»

Indeed, the overwhelming consensus among mathematicians who work with transfinites is that transfinite mathematics entails no ontological commitment.4 In fact, when Platonic realism or Russellian logicism (which holds to the extra-mental reality of infinite sets) are employed as interpretations of infinite sets, we open the door to the very antinomies and problematics, such as the Burali - Forti antinomy and Russell's difficulty with sets and impredicative definitions, which have led mathematicians and philosophers of mathematics to new interpretations of set theory such as the axiomatic.

Unluckily just when scientists are opening their minds to a nondeterministic view of cosmic order many philosophers, here and in England, are still playing the old game (as old as ancient stoicism) of trying to reconcile human freedom with strict causal determination of all events.

As Whitehead says, there are periods when philosophers can play an important role as critics of abstractionAs Whitehead says, there are periods when philosophers can play an important role as critics of abstractionas critics of abstractions.

When the same scientists speak about God, they are no longer speaking as a scientist but as a philosopher, a theologian.

This becomes particularly clear when one takes account of certain basic presuppositions that are now widely shared by theologians as well as philosophers.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

Moses Maimonides (1135 - 1204), the most famous Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, included the doctrine of the resurrection as the last of his Thirteen Principles of Faith — «I believe with perfect faith that there will be a resurrection of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator.»

Just as Margaret Fuller, at the risk of grandiosity, once decided to «accept the universe,» process theologians and philosophers have decided, with the same risk, to «accept history;» When informed of Fuller's decision, Thomas Carlyle said, «By God!

When a stranger introduced himself to Maritain, the philosopher's eyes grew gentle, steady, and focused, and it would seem to this or that person as he talked away that, for Maritain, he was the only person in the world.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [«the voice of the people = the voice of God»], as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

But, curiously enough, when I came to my first clear conviction on the materialism - dualism - idealism issue it was not of any particular philosopher or writer that I was thinking but of life and nature as I then experienced them while serving in a humble role in an army hospital.

A smaller number of philosophers do attempt to defend it, and many others, even if they rarely discuss the question directly, show their materialistic bias when they discuss such questions as the mind - body relation.

when the Indian Christians invited Pantaneus to preach to the Hindu philosophers and religious leaders, they were aware of their missionary responsibility to Indian culture as a whole.

Malcolm Muggeridge, the famous British philosopher and journalist who converted to Christianity late in life, once told the story of when he was working in India as a young man.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

Why indeed invite monist philosophers, even some tending towards process theology, when not inviting those seen as tending towards creationism?

Philosopher when you theorise that God created sin that path will take you to a place of unbelief and a mistrust in God as it is a place of doubt and unbelief if you see God as evil.That is one path everyone is free to take.The scriptures say that without faith it is impossible to please God.The other path is that we believe that the bible is true that God is holy and righteous and sin does not dwell him.Ultimately if we believe and trust him then we shall be saved.What does your theory offer is there hope or is there eternal life in your belief the answer is no because unless we believe in Jesus we shall not be saved and eternity is a long time if you are wrong.brentnz

He points out that Descartes was the first modern philosopher to address himself to the problem of justifying ontological assertions in general, having asked questions such as these: When can I correctly and legitimately say that something persists over a certain time interval?

While John Locke's admonition against the «blind precipitancy» of passion should always guide the serious philosopher, an excess of zeal may well be forgiven when it involves the kind of innocent fallout that inevitably accompanies genius — as is the case with Karl Popper.

When scientists like Laurence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson call philosophers to answer for their crimes today, the lovers of wisdom aren't accused of anything as exciting as corrupting the youth.

But God does elbow his way into King's America — it wouldn't be a recognizable America if he didn't — and when he appears it isn't as a distant, half - glimpsed presence, a philosopher's God or the wan deity of wistful almost - believers.

like i said whatever you say about him as arsenal manager (and trust me we all have a lot to say against him at this moment in time and i am 100 % with you on that one), i was talking more of the context of wenger the football philosopher than, wenger the arsenal manager, when i re quoted that quote from him.

The spanish philosopher george santayana defined the latter as someone who «redoubles their effort when they have forgotten what the aim was»... which is a good description of the AKBs... he then went on to remind arsenal fans that the aim was winning epl and cl... which was pretty prescient as the man died in 1952!!!!!

Don't forget he identified Christ (Peace on him) as his favorite «political philosopher» when running for President in 2000 [reference: James Carroll, The Bush Crusade]

As the political philosopher Philip Pettit argues, domination occurs when one party has the power to interfere arbitrarily in the actions of another.

A caste of enlightened «philosopher kings», as Plato recommended, was unnecessary when you have an intelligent, involved public.

As 17th - century Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza put it, «When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune.»

CHILDHOOD as an idea may have its origins in the 18th century, when philosopher Jean - Jacques Rousseau described it as a brief period of sanctuary before the hardships of adult life.

We can not deduce our lives; we must live them forward, as the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said, even when we face unknowable uncertainty.

Philosopher Mary Midgley had brought up three children and worked as a lecturer in provincial British universities for more than 20 years when she published her first book at the age of 56.

(According to myth, when the Greek philosopher Pythagoras proved that the square root of 2 could not be written as the quotient of two integers, he was so disappointed he threw himself off a cliff.)

The narrative reminded me of academic meetings when I listened while avant garde philosophers writhed almost in agony as they struggled to give birth to thoughts they evidently considered so deep as to defy expression in everyday language.

Scientists and philosophers should be shocked by the idea of post-truth, and they should speak up when scientific findings are ignored by those in power or treated as mere matters of faith.

A princess (Mira Sorvino) experiences pangs of guilt when she realizes that the true heir to the throne (Jay Rodan) is living with two eccentric philosophers (Ben Kingsley and Fiona Shaw) who have taught him to hate the princess, as well as women in general.

Watching The Philosopher's Stone now, there are times when it is hard to believe that we ever got as far as the seventh book being split into two lucrative parts.

Barely registering the existence of his two daughters even when they're standing right in front of him (Leigh regular Ruth Sheen is constantly, hilariously livid as their mother), he springs to giddy life when a «natural philosopher» (played by frequent Leigh collaborator Lesley Manville) drops by his studio to conduct an experiment involving sunlight, a needle, and a prism.

As David Staebler — provincial talk - show host, would - be poet and philosopher of the nighttime airwaves — Nicholson delivers a more than adequate performance; when does he ever not?

But when we quizzed him about his role as Dumbledore in the much - anticipated Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, he wasn't much more effusive.

As the education philosopher Francis Schrag notes, when evaluating (as opposed to doing) empirical research, «normative considerations appear to be decisive in determining the admissibility of facts and in providing a lens through which these facts are filtered.&raquAs the education philosopher Francis Schrag notes, when evaluating (as opposed to doing) empirical research, «normative considerations appear to be decisive in determining the admissibility of facts and in providing a lens through which these facts are filtered.&raquas opposed to doing) empirical research, «normative considerations appear to be decisive in determining the admissibility of facts and in providing a lens through which these facts are filtered.»