Sentences with phrase «by philosopher john»

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

That was first done by the Oxford philosopher John R. Lucas.

In one popular study of the problem of God today, John A. T. Robinson questions the relevance of a theism that would think of God as a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind.4 The same issue is raised by Harvey Cox, who writes: The willingness of the classical philosophers to allow the God of the Bible to be blurred into Plato's Idea of the Good or Aristotle's Prime Mover was fatal.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

This book by John E. Hare, son of influential (and recently deceased) philosopher R. M. Hare, is full of stimulating ideas that call for elaboration.

The November 2014 conference was as fine as any I've attended, and for me the most memorable presentation was by John Finnis, the Oxford - and - Notre Dame philosopher of law.

As a politico - religious concept, this notion has the distinctive form given it by John Locke, the philosophers has the distinctive form given it by John Locke, the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the Puritans, and a few others.

But others, like philosophers John Searle and Thomas Nagel, say that even if such a robot could be invented, it would be, by definition, a «zombie» (another overworked term in the mind / body lexicon).

In Faith and the Philosophers, edited by John Hick, pp. 26 - 33.

The liberal philosopher John Rawls described how a socially just society was one taken by people unaware of what position they would occupy within it.

Philosopher and attorney John Mikhail, who was studying linguistic theory with Noam Chomsky at MIT, became intrigued by Chomsky's argument that some grammatical rules are hardwired in our brains.

Most modern theories of moral reasoning, he learned, were powerfully shaped by one of two great philosophers: Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill.

Featuring never - before - seen Coltrane family home movies, footage of John Coltrane and band in the studio — discovered in a California garage during production of this film — along with hundreds of never - before - seen photographs and rare television appearances from around the world, Coltrane's story is told by the musicians that worked with him including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Reggie Workman, musicians that have been inspired by his fearless artistry and creative vision like Common, John Densmore, Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Kamasi Washington, along with Coltrane's children and biographers, in addition to well - known admirers such as President Bill Clinton and philosopher Dr. Cornel West.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ** / **** starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese screenplay by Steven Kloves, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling directed by Chris Columbus

By situating important academic concepts and skills in the context of projects and internships, High Tech High gives Morikawa and his classmates what John Dewey, the great pragmatic philosopher and educational reformer of the early twentieth century, called «both magnet to attract and glue to hold» their learning.

The very idea that all people should be educated was first advance by John Amos Comenius, a Czech philosopher who lived in the sixteenth century witnessing and experiencing religious intolerance and violence, which made him a religious refugee.

During one such visit in 1865, Elizabeth took Millicent to hear a speech by John Stuart Mill, a social and political theorist and philosopher who believed in women's suffrage.

CHICAGO — Curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, and opening at the Hyde Park Art Center in October 2006 (5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago), this unique exhibition showcases a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by - and - large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro - Futurist Sun Ra.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Blain Southern will publish a book that features a newly commissioned interview between art historian Ara H. Merjian and philosopher Jesse Prinz, alongside existing texts by Giorgio de Chirico, John Ashbery, Lydia Davis, Apollinaire and others.

In a previous solo show titled Ideograph (2006), Rademeyer visually translated texts by philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and musical compositions by artists such as John Cage into visual structures, realised in the form of prints and animations.

Curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro - Futurist Underground, 1954 - 68 will showcase a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by - and - large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro - Futurist Sun Ra.

As the first extensive introduction of Sean's art and life to the Chinese audiences, it collects some important reviews including Architectural principles in the art of Sean Scully by Arthur C. Danto, A Modernism that turned into a tradition by the renowned German philosopher and socialist Jürgen Habermas, and «Painting is permanently primitive...» by the poet and critic John Yau.

The folds of leathery skin are lifted and propped open by sculptures, casts and found objects to reveal collages of a multitude of images from a broad range of sources: André Masson's Acéphale illustration depicts a headless monster, functioning as a parodic diagram of the ideas of the Surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille; Krang, the villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is an anthropomorphic brain housed in the torso of a human - shaped exo - suit; the cryogenically - frozen body of John Spartan from the film, Demolition Man; and a snapshot of the artist's mother, apparently perturbed by a «virtual autopsy display» of a mummy in the British Museum.

Later we attended a dinner hosted by Royal Salute whiskey in the soon - to - be-renovated Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, where chef Uwe Opocensky prepared food according to Ray Kurzweil's «immortality diet,» set on specially made white - and - gold porcelain flatware inspired by John Dee, occult philosopher and adviser to Queen Elizabeth.

Attends lectures by Zen philosopher D.T. Suzuki in New York with John Cage, whom he met in Rome in 1948.

Christakis is one of scores of contributors to an annual exercise in which Edge, run by literary agent and author John Brockman, poses a question to scientists, technology gurus, philosophers, and other thinkers.