Sentences with phrase «by a philosopher about»

This isn't really a review of Art Rethought; the Social Practices of Art, by Nicholas Wolterstorff, a book by a philosopher about art, with no illustrations.

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That time period in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the principle:

As the contemporary Thomist John Haldane points out, «Philosophers inspired by Aquinas have had little to say about aesthetics.»

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

I once read a blog written by a philosopher making this point about proving a negative and using the very same example.

About a hundred years after the Origin the SCM Press published Metaphysical Beliefs: Three Essay, by the English philosophers S. Toulmin, R. W. Hepburn, and A. MacIntyre.

I am thus all the more frustrated by his disclaimer that as a philosopher he has nothing relevant to say about education.

Nonetheless, the Berns thesis does throw some doubt upon the generous and affectionate thesis about the American founding propounded by the genial Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The only answer to such a question is that of the Greek philosopher, who, when asked about God by an idler, kept a persistent silence.

A view held by many contemporary metaphysicians is that the problem of induction, so much discussed by philosophers of science, arises only because of mistaken metaphysical views; in particular views (deriving from Hume) about the nature of the causal relation and / or about the internal relations among different entities.1 Contrary to this view, I will try...

They do not even think about the fact that their being scandalized by alienation, oppression, and repression does not spring from the French revolution in 1789 and the eighteenth - century philosophers, nor from Greek thought (which is completely foreign to freedom, in spite of what has been said on the subject!)

Nor is he talking about the utterly transcendent mystery of philosophers and mystics, the divine that allegedly lives in a far - off eternity uncontaminated by the ordinariness of time and space.

They are so about the coming revenge of the nerds that they forget that even scientists and philosophers have to be animated by erotic longings that could only exist in beings with bodies, minds, and other stuff too — in persons.

In the humanities, postmodern philosophers and literary theorists tend to deny that decisions about meaning are guided by a trans - historical reason or by any objective truth and assert that our interpretations of the world partially re-constitute the world they interpret.

Judith Wolfe tells us about the origins of the journal: «As an Oxford theologian, I was surprised again and again that C S Lewis was widely read, and very much enjoyed, by theologians and philosophers, but that he wasn't felt to be presentable in polite society — he wasn't regarded as the sort of person who could be drawn into a serious theological or philosophical conversation.»

(3) The goal of paideia can not be taught directly — for example, by simply conveying information about various philosophers» doctrines regarding virtue.

The great Catholic philosopher, by then well into his eighties, subtitled his book An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time.

The differentiation between «implicit» and «explicit» ontologies is meant to be a gradation — from the statements about reality by the natural subject to those of the scientist and on to those of the philosopher.

Lindbeck observed that in their emphasis upon the function of religious language as propositional information about objective realities, conservative theologians tend to confirm the approach to religion taken by most Anglo - American analytic philosophers.

(Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope, 23) From Auguste Comte to Karl Marx, philosophers have made repeated efforts to eliminate any profound uncertainty about the future by placing it within some scheme of inevitability or determinism that might calm our vexation about its destiny.

How about reading «Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved» by Frans de Waal, or «The Altruism Equation» ed Lee Alan Dugatkin.

The depiction of Jesus as a Cynic philosopher with no concern about Israel's destiny, no connection with the concerns and hopes that animated his Jewish contemporaries, no interest in the interpretation of Scripture, and no message of God's coming eschatological judgment is - quite simply - an ahistorical fiction, achieved by the surgical removal of Jesus from his Jewish context.

Now I think that in making this distinction Whitehead makes a good and original initial point; because it is the fact that philosophers, by instinct, always think heterogeneously about nature, whereas scientists, equally by instinct, don't, which, more than any one thing, makes the philosophy of science so unreal a subject for actual research scientists.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

The pagan temptation,» as the philosopher Thomas Molnar described it, is hardly new — the Church has been fighting paganism since the time of Christ — but what is new is its aggressive resurgence, its seduction of so many Christians, and the warnings Pope Francis has issued against it.The Pope's scorching words against paganism have not been well - received by many, but Francis has gone right on assailing it, particularly in areas that pagans care about most: the environment and sex.Francis has been a bold and eloquent defender of the environment, and understands that protecting the environment is not a recent fad, but a long - standing Catholic principle, highlighted by many of Francis's predecessors.

Indeed, the same questions about the self - consistency and plausibility of traditional free will theism could be, and have been, raised by philosophers with other perspectives.

The reliance on strict rules of verification, however, was seen by the philosophers of language to be so limiting that very little was left to talk about.

By contrast, in Italy philosophers speak incessantly about communita — while practicing an almost medieval and princely self - assertion and exhibiting a fiercely proud individualism that borders on anarchy.

As such, it hardly warrants rousting the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus to argue about acuity being discursively codified — and perhaps the point is even weakened by this erudite reference.

Professor Alice Roberts talks to us about why we need to understand the connections with food, the environment and human health — and why we need to start by engaging a meaningful conversation with communities to increase general awareness, maybe even with the help of sociologists, philosophers, poets and artists.

By: Joe Newman I heard about a Buddhist philosopher recently asking a group, «What is the opposite of thank you?»

Texts Cruddas and Rutherford's NS review of Richard Reeves and Philip Collins's The Liberal Republic; «No turning back», by Neal Lawson (NS, 5 March 2009); Bunting has written sympathetically about another communitarian philosopher, Michael Sandel, who, in his 2009 Reith Lectures, called for religious ideas to be given greater prominence to counter the amoralism of the market.

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.

What struck Barbour most was Einstein's comment that his intuitive leap about space and time had been inspired by Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, whose study of the speed of sound in fluids helped explain the sonic boom heard when objects break the sound barrier.

Right about that time, Greene heard about an ethical thought experiment called the trolley problem, developed in the 1960s by British philosopher Philippa Foot and expanded by American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson.

The intellectual groundwork for a truce about God was laid down long ago by 18th - century German philosopher Immanuel Kant and many others: Everyone who considers the matter carefully and honestly comes to the conclusion that you can't prove anything about God with science or logic.

Scientists demonstrated the efficiency and versatility of their method by using it to print a copy of 17th - century mystic philosopher Robert Fludd's image of the sun (the alchemist's symbol for gold) using about 20,000 gold particles, each of them 60 nanometers in diameter.

About a dozen of us — physicists, psychologists, brain scientists and clinicians, leavened by a French philosopher — introduced quantum mechanics, neuroscience, consciousness and various clinical aspects of meditative practices to a few thousand Buddhist monks and nuns.

Philosophy isn't about the brain processes involved in our experiences; what philosophers try to do is to explain these experiences themselves by uncovering their structural characteristics.

By no means am I a philosopher, but I would venture to say that when Weston A. Price said, ``... man's place is most exalted when he obeys Mother Nature's laws,» he was speaking about more than dietary choices.

The philosopher Stanley Fish has written that the way the film alters the real - life Northup's memoirs, cutting out the process by which Northup's freedom was made a public crusade and presenting it instead as a surprise, «is so abrupt and so quickly achieved that it is made to seem miraculous and the audience is not invited to generalize from it to any optimistic conclusion about the merits of the liberal state informed by the rule of law.»

Incidentally, the above quote about «fashioning the will» can be found in the publication, Address to the German Nation, by German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814).

He talks, in «Frames of Mind,» about Jean - Paul Sartre, a famous French philosopher, and novelist who was «extremely precocious» as a young child but «so skilled at mimicking adults, including their style and register of talk, that by age five he could enchant audiences with his linguistic fluency.»

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French philosopher Guy Debord talked about the idea of the dérive, a mode of travel where the journey itself is more important that the destination, where travelers «let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.»

Conceived and organized by guest curator Philipp Kaiser, UNPACKING takes its title from German philosopher Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay, «Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting.»

Currently I'm looking at «The Philosopher's Pupil» by Iris Murdoch, «The Birth of Tragedy» by Frederick Neitzsche and book of essays about Jasper Johns titled «Seeing With the Mind's Eye»

In looking for precedents and influences, Masheck also points to an offhand remark about a philosopher of art — in an editorial that Duchamp almost surely never read, by a political commentator he may not even have known.

Sun Xun, 31, another rising star, claims that his ideas about art are influenced mostly by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, although his stunning hand - drawn animations are packed with oblique references to traditional Chinese culture as well.