Sentences with phrase «as thinkers on»

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Within the past year, on the virtual pages of Inc., many present - day entrepreneurs have sung his praises, not just as an author or thinker, but as an all - around kind and passionate person.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

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I'd think I'd be awfully glad to have him marry into the family just based on his personal characteristics, but as a thinker he's pretty bad.

As noted by leading thinkers on this topic, such as David Armano and Jeffrey Dachis, social business is changing the very core of such functions as sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenAs noted by leading thinkers on this topic, such as David Armano and Jeffrey Dachis, social business is changing the very core of such functions as sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenas David Armano and Jeffrey Dachis, social business is changing the very core of such functions as sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenas sales, marketing, IT, HR, and product design as it relates to customer engagemenas it relates to customer engagement.

With more than thirty years of experience as an economist, and as a leading thinker on the impact of government impact on business, Moore has written extensively on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation.

While he and Tim LaHaye would be classified, in general terms, as being on the conservative end of the political spectrum, Father Neuhaus was certainly a thinker who was fond of nuances.

On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Bernard Williams are leading the attack against such debilitating philosophical notions as Hume's notorious «Is / Ought» distinction and Kant's simplistic fusion of morality with mere duty.

Often concentrating on the early writings such as the Habilitationsschrift and the Lublin lectures (neither has been translated into English), the author indicates where the young thinker incorporated Scheler's phenomenological value ethics, Kant's formalistic ethics of duty, and Aquinas» understanding of the rational desire of the will into his own synthesis of human action and value.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

But, even in the fundamental thinkers of high modernity, hints can be found that knowledge requires God: Descartes uses God in the Meditations in order to escape from the interiority where the cogito has stranded him; Kant uses God as a postulate of pure practical reason in order to hold on to the possibility of morality.

There is, as I see it, a paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Roman Catholic theology away from the classical worldview of Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic thinkers in which the philosophy of Aristotle plays such an important role to a more interpersonal approach to the God - world relationship in which God is thought to be constantly interacting with creatures in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.

On the juridical level, it was now recognized by many Jewish thinkers that Christianity had explicitly accepted the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible as normative.

Drawing on the wisdom of thinkers as diverse as St. Augustine and Leon Kass, and on the common sense of such figures as Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall wittily argues that «unserious activities» help make human life worth living.

As usual the sheep come on here and critisize the true thinkers as «conspiracy theorists»As usual the sheep come on here and critisize the true thinkers as «conspiracy theorists»as «conspiracy theorists».

Now, I realize I am now automatically dismissed as a narrow - minded zealot by the «free thinkers» on this site, but, if one is Christian and believes in the veracity of Christian tenets, then it is * illogical * to consider that other paths are equally valid.

Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

Luther plainly asserted the natural law, as did the Aristotelian thinkers of high Lutheran Orthodoxy; he even defended the truth of the Ten Commandments on the basis of natural law.

As I reflected on the differences between Wesley and the earlier reformers, I saw that these were quite similar to my differences with the Neo-Reformation thinkers who dominated the mid-century discussion.

I, on the other hand, presuppose that God can not be evil; that goodness and being belong inextricably together or else there is no ground for basic trust... Even Calvinist Paul Helm, a leading evangelical Calvinist thinker, agrees (as I show in my book) that «goodness» attributed to God can not be totally different from every understanding of goodness (and love) we know of.»

The process thinkers of our time who have turned their attention to the religious question — the process theologians, as they are usually called — are sure, however, that there is another and sounder conception of God, one which makes love the clue to the divine nature and manner of working in the world and one which is also in accordance with what we know to be going on in that world.

At the request of the order, he spent the last forty - five years of his life as a Christian thinker on the Jewish question and a senior Church envoy to the Jewish state.

Allow this center in a man to remain dulled by the crowd; allow it to continue dissipated by busyness; permit it to go on evading its function by a round of distractions, or to lull itself by a carefully chosen rotation of pleasures; abandon it to its attempt to drug, to narcotize suffering and remorse which might reveal to it its true condition; let it wither away the sense of its own validity by false theories of man's nature, of his place in the social pattern, of his way of salvation; in short, allow any of these well - known forms of domestication of man's responsible core as an individual, to continue unchallenged, and you as a thinker and a friend of men have committed the supreme treason!

Process thinkers have rebelled against images of God that depict the divine as a despotic tyrant or as a cosmic puppeteer pulling the strings on the creaturely puppets.

I had no idea, on that rainy day in Cambridge, that as I opened Newman's Apologia I was to discover not an enemy but a lifelong friend, not a dusty Victorian but a vital thinker, and not a hectoring Catholic insisting I must convert but a guide toward a truer Protestantism.

While I acknowledge his importance as an inspiration to later thinkers, and am conscious of how eagerly he was absorbed, midway through the last century, into the genealogy of «Existentialism» (perhaps the most annoying philosophical movement to arrive on the continental scene before the advent of post-structuralism), I can not honestly profess immense admiration for his speculative gifts.

Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism on the centrality of the «subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human experience.

On the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one anotheOn the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one anotheon the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one another.

I hope, nevertheless, that my comments may indicate why one person at least on this side of the Atlantic (and hence somewhat isolated from the technical expertise, vocabulary, and sometimes apparently frenetic debates of the community of process thinkers) finds in Hartshorne's work «genuine philosophic wisdom,» especially as it develops insights into the logical status and conceptual structure of a theistic understanding of the concept of God.

These thinkers, on both the left and the right, accept Marx's description of «capitalism» as our present situation without endorsing Marx's revolutionary hopes.

The «angelic doctor» arrived just as Christian thinkers were choking on a large piece of conceptual roughage called «the twofold truth.»

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.

Strange as it may seem, on this point Solzhenitsyn is the more existential of the two thinkers.

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to which would only unnecessarily complicate comparison).

Hammarskjold quotes at length from Buber's statement on unmasking in Pointing the Way, «Hope for This Hour,» p. 223 f., referring to Buber as «one of the influential thinkers of our time whose personal history and national experience have given him a vantage point of significance.»

Taken as a whole, this deposition of Whitehead's can neither be subsumed under any movement of the twentieth century nor accurately represented as the joint influence of recent thinkers on its author.

As one Christian thinker put it, man would be «indefinitely perfected and raised to a totally different plane than that on which all life had hitherto existed.»

God is still that supreme reality who on the one hand maintains order and provides novelty and on the other hand through the process of nature and history secures ends that are incorporated into the divine self (in the divine «consequent nature,» as process thinkers would say), and thus validates and vindicates what is done in the world.

Lowe wrote his major work on Bergson's influence on Whitehead at a time (1949, right after Whitehead's death) when Whitehead's originality as a thinker was not taken for granted, as it is today.

Emil Brunner, «Some Remarks on Reinhold Niebuhr's Work as a Christian Thinker,» in Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social, and Political Thought, p. 28.

I do not see a single argument Lowe has made regarding Bergson's influence on Whitehead as beyond dispute, but I grant that Lowe's work on Whitehead has been a great service to thinkers everywhere.

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to...

The work of these Christian process thinkers focuses variously on such topics as the question of God,...

It is not up to the atheist movement to come up with solutions as we have different values and understandings on the way the universe works for example... There are humanists, secularists, skeptics, free thinkers, misogynists etc etc..

The recognition of the central and constitutive role and the necessity of the varied institutions that exist between the state and the individual has been a staple observation of thinkers from Tocqueville to contemporary thinkers on both the nominal right and nominal left, such as Bertrand de Jouvenel, Robert Nisbet, Russell Kirk, Christopher Lasch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Wilson Carey McWilliams, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistAs a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistas values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

Instead, I favored an unlikely combination of, on the one hand, medieval thinkers and their contemporary interpreters such as Maritain and Gilson, and, on the other, the Reformers and their neo-Orthodox successors (who were fashionable) and confessional Lutherans (who were not).

Process thinkers have rebelled against images of God that depict the divine as a despotic tyrant or as a cosmic puppeteer pulling the strings on creaturely puppets.

Note on the Historical papers — The student will be expected to appreciate both the character of the problems as in the minds of the thinkers of the time and the general nature of the solutions attempted, illustrated by the simplest details.