Sentences with phrase «as a thinker about»

So, I actually think what's really striking about Buffett on many levels is his profundity as a thinker about life not just about business.

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But self - learning machines are concerning enough to draw the attention of big thinkers like Musk — he referred to AI as «our biggest existential threat» — as well as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, with whom Musk co-authored a letter about the technology's dangers.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

Thiel, who has styled himself as a deep, innovative, and strategic thinker about the big questions facing the world, will, tonight, have the biggest audience he has ever had.

First - level thinkers tend to view past price weakness as worriesome, not as a sign that the asset has gotten cheaper» Howard Marks «Money always chases performance, so it tends to mostly show up after you've done really well for a long period of time, probably ten minutes before you're about to look really silly» Chuck Royce

Yeah, go back to your X-Box and let the real thinkers like DumbG there conjecture about all the things no one can disprove, for to truly disprove anything you need complete knowledge of everything in the universe, and since no human will ever achieve that, people like DumbG can tell as many unproven «truths» as they want.

It has long seemed that Andrew Sullivan's reputation as a consequential thinker about matters sexual is somewhat inflated.

After about 983 (A.D. 1575) Akbar began to show unusual interest in religious discussions, largely as a result of association with some of his courtiers who were free - thinkers.

Before, however, we look at the questions of intellectual openness, fellowship with other faiths and social engagement, it will help to see why many thinkers picture the new century — it seems presumptuous to speculate about the new millennium — as very different from the century that is drawing to a close.

I believe that part of the answer to my question — why some process - thinkers have written as they have about Jesus — is to be found in some remarks from White - head which I shall quote later in this lecture.

In the Middle Ages, Jewish thinkers argued about whether Christianity should be regarded as polytheistic.

the interesting thing about so many atheists is their forceful description of themselves as «free - thinkers».

I also do not believe that having students argue controversial positions necessarily makes them better thinkers or more morally sensitive as you implied by your comment about how an assignment like this could have the effect of causing students to think about the horrors of the Holocaust.

Once, at an academic conference at which people began banging on, as they so often do, about what a magnificently systematic thinker Aquinas was, I lost my temper and said that whenever I heard people going on about this, I knew one thing: that they had never closely studied Aquinas's texts.

What I can be sure about however is the tyranny and number of despots that have burned books, regarding thinkers and those with an education as threats to be eliminated.

What, if anything, can you do when you see a publisher marketing someone as a «sexy new thinker» to the highly impressionable Christian market and people you know and really care about drinking his Christian Kool - Aide?

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

Although Altizer was for several years the most talked about theologian in the country, and although his publications even prior to this one had established him as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers of our time, no department of religion in a public university invited him to join.

It must be responsible and open to discussions about praxis as well, and process thinkers have recently shown themselves to be very open to these questions as they have been raised in liberation theology.

This is a part of my study of Kass that I'm posting today instead of saying more about Rousseau... The thought of Enlightenment thinkers such as Bacon, Descartes and Condorcet was that only indefinite longevity could transform the world in a genuinely humane way.

Moreover, theologians need to subject to critical evaluation the presuppositions about man, history, and values that underlie the forecasts and findings of secular thinkers, as well as the strategies they propose to lead men toward desirable alternatives.

Physicists and some process thinkers, such as the physicist and process theologian Ian G. Barbour, are cautious about making the long jump from indeterminacy in sub-atomic particles to human freedom and purpose,

has already been seriously challenged by speculations about how the Big Bang might have begun, by thinkers such as Hawkin.

As part of the Rally to Restore Unity, I asked some of my favorite writers and thinkers to respond to this prompt: «In three to five sentences, tell us about a meaningful relationship you've maintained with a fellow Christian who doesn't necessarily share your theological or political views.»

Many Christians see Cod as the guardian of the moral law, but some thinkers recognize the autonomy of morals and hold that people can discern what is right and wrong independently of their basic beliefs about the universe.

Even an appeal to the Bible as a source of information about God is not the solution, because the writers of Scripture faced the same problem as secular thinkers when it came to putting on paper the way in which the deity manifested itself to them.

As a thinker he intrigued and inspired the world with his timely re ections and diagnosis about the change of society.

As has been noted in the preceding exposition, his concerns about technology and technological society have much in common with those expressed by such diverse thinkers as Ellul, Roszak, Mumford, Heidegger, and members of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Marcuse, and othersAs has been noted in the preceding exposition, his concerns about technology and technological society have much in common with those expressed by such diverse thinkers as Ellul, Roszak, Mumford, Heidegger, and members of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Marcuse, and othersas Ellul, Roszak, Mumford, Heidegger, and members of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Marcuse, and others).

This thinker, whose name I shall not disclose, said that he was becoming more and more convinced that there was «something in the older metaphysical — he called them «ontological» — claims; at the moment he was much concerned, he said, to find a way of giving more than linguistic status to such propositions as «personal God», for it appeared to him that these statements somehow pointed to a truth about the universe, about the nature of things, that must be reckoned with in any honest description of the «way things are».

Martin weighs the merits of his «all truths are timeless,» or can be so formulated without loss of truth, against what he takes to be my view (for no reason in my writings that I can see) that all are time - bound; he ignores the moderate or less extreme view that some (namely, truths about extremely universal and abstract, eternal and necessary things, including the essential structure of time as such) are timeless, and others (those about less universal and abstract, also non-eternal and contingent things) are time - bound, but this not in every way a careless thinker might suppose but in a definite and logically intelligible way.

To bolster our practice, we'll explore the long history of the recuperation of boredom and time - wasting through critical texts about affect theory, ASMR, situationism and everyday life by thinkers such as Guy Debord, Mary Kelly, Erving Goffman, Betty Friedan, Raymond Williams, John Cage, Georges Perec, Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefevbre, Trin Minh - ha, Stuart Hall, Sianne Ngai, Siegfried Kracauer and others.

Supernatural intervention was much less a problem for ancient thinkers than it has become for us, with our conception of the orderly processes of nature; for the race, as for the individual, «heaven lies about us in our infancy.»

Early Christian thinkers knew, writes Wilken, «something that has largely been forgotten by biblical scholars, and their commentaries are an untapped resource for understanding the Bible as a book about Christ.»

In the past, of course, numerous scientific thinkers have expressed skepticism about religion because its assertions are not verifiable or falsifiable in the same experimental sense as are scientific assertions.

Turow spends 164 pages interviewing both Millennials and big thinkers in the food world — such as Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, and Marion Nestle — about the current food obsession and what it means for our future.

@Jimbeam that story was not credible.Ut was made up.Also your questions have are not even in line with what am saying.You are asling this and that and bla bla bla.It was needless.Everybody who is here wants Arsenal to achieve success regardless of whether we have average players or not because that's what we as fans do.The thing I was trying to say is that the same people who here who are nagging and crying are the same people who claimed to have lowered their expectations for the transfer window.So why all this talk.Listen I'll even want Arsenal to even have a world class eleven and when we don't win the cup with that world class eleven i wonder who'll be blamed after that.The critical thinkers here will tell you the main thing worrying this club is not even about the players.It's all summed up in one word known as philosophy.

Perhaps this site should be purely for those that have nothing good to say regardless if it's about the manager, the club etc and where all the like minded thinkers can console each other with «their» point of view as it seems that anyone else's outside of an anti Wenger camp are clearly not welcomed.

As educators, we care about both the process — joyful, active learning — and the result: independent thinkers who act with purpose and compassion.

We're celebrating as always with our favorite reads of the week — a stunning lineup of stories covering topics such as babies as roommates, raising positive thinkers, why adoption is not about you, the secrets we keep from our children and so much more.

The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface.

Weinberger is one of our most incisive thinkers about the digital age, a senior researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the author of books such as Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Basic Books, 2002), Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Times Books, 2007), and the upcoming Too Big to Know (Basic Books).

Her theories about why mothers — as well as fathers — behave as they do brought her scorn, and then respect, as one of the most radical evolutionary thinkers of our day.

This essay series includes contributions from nanotechnology thinkers offering their understanding as to why everyone should care about the potential and power of nanotechnology.

His ability to hold complex concepts in his mind about enlightenment, human nature and behavior while weaving in examples from the Bible, Buddhism, Taoism, as well as the world's greatest thinkers and artists, is impressive and illuminating.

I would describe myself as eclectic, adventurous, mature, thinker and I love great conversations with someone who can talk about anything

Thinkers such as István Mészáros, Paulo Freire, Peter Hudis, Michael A. Lebowitz, Marta Harnecker, John Bellamy Foster, Carl Boggs, Ramon Grosfoguel, E. San Juan, Joel Kovel, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, William I. Robinson, Kevin Anderson, Henry Giroux, Bertell Ollman and many others have been theorizing about changes that need to be made to make the world a more livable and humane place.

Those cited in the article who criticize those in favor of upgrading technology first and asking questions later about how it will impact student achievement are exactly right, as Bror Saxberg — one of the leading thinkers in understanding how to use technology to bolster learning — argues here.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

If we want students to develop as independent thinkers, we need to provide the conditions in which they feel free to speak, without worrying about producing a «correct» answer.

One strategy with the potential for lasting benefits is to engage students as critical thinkers about the issue.