Sentences with phrase «by philosophers who»

This is the question posed by philosophers who believe all suffering should be terminated.

This is a question which will surely need to be considered by philosophers who have an interest in the very significant issues raised by Stapp's work.

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

I once attended a lecture by a philosopher who, in the midst of a tirade against the Christian right, interrupted himself and admitted that his atheism also had a problem: «I hate to admit it,» he conceded, «but I am a qualia freak.»

Not exact matches

«A book that changed my life is one by Marcus Aurelius, who was an emperor of Rome for 19 years and a stoic philosopher.

If, as our current philosopher - pope reminds us, sin flows from a failure to gratefully acknowledge and do the duties that flow from our deeply relational being, then Mattie was, in a way, sort of a sinner by nature (as are we all, due to original sin), who added to her natural brokenness through her proud willfulness.

Also «Good and Evil by Martin Buber, the Jewish Philosopher / Scholar who in Part II debunks Christianity and «salvation:, also Bart Ehrman PhD has a lot of good books.

A lot has been changed by philosophers, scholars, and creeds, but I still accept all good people who believe in the Biblical Jesus as Christians.

The pressure of epistemological standards established by minimalistic philosophies was extremely strong at that time, and any philosopher who wanted to be treated seriously in academic circles had to take them into account.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $ 34.99 He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says a political philosopher who follows biblical scholarship.

The recording of an external likeness was denounced by the third - century neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, who refused to allow his portrait to be painted, in part because he believed it only an «image of an image» (in true Platonist fashion), and in part because he rejected his material existence, claiming that its mortal fragility demonstrated that it was essentially untrue and unreal.

The modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher who emphasised the practical and gave almost no thought to men's higher purposes.

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.

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.

One significant attempt to avoid the ambiguities of history, similar in some ways to that of Albrecht Ritschl, was made by Rudolf Bultmann (1884 - 1976), a German theologian who was much influenced by the writings of the philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976).

at best jesus was a decent philosopher who's life was grossly embellished by his followers after his death.

Milbank's intelligent and theologically informed analysis of what we mean by «the Other» gives us the resources to undo from within the work of the deconstructionists» those postmodern philosophers and critics who hunt down and denounce any construction of identity forged in opposition to others, and yet who depend on those wicked «other - using» others to forge their own identities.

As the Socrates of Plato's Republic acknowledges the likelihood of the world continuing in its evils, he describes the philosopher as someone who retreats from public life «like someone who takes refuge under a little wall from a storm of dust or hail driven by the wind» (Republic 496d).

For process philosophers and theologians who wish to use Prolog, we recommend Micro-Prolog, produced by Logic Programming Associates, London, England.

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

There are some Whiteheadian philosophers, no doubt, who would tend to think that immanence is adequately explained by the temporal aspect of process: present prehending actual entity following in temporal succession past actual entities which have completed their concrescence and become fully determinate.

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.

If a process theologian is one who has been influenced by philosophers such as Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, then obviously you are right.

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.

There is in most of us a spark of reason, and much was achieved for universal human moral standing by the great Stoic philosophers who emphasized this logos in us all.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

Somewhere in Appearance and Reality the English idealist philosopher F. H. Bradley remarked that «the man who, transported by his passion, feels and knows that only love gives the secret of the universe», is not engaging in proper metaphysical discourse.

It is the purpose of this chapter to discuss the interpretations gleaned from the writings of the old schools of Muslims — mystics and rationalists, including both the theologians and the philosophers — who are not usually regarded by the orthodox school as strict Muslims, but whose influence on Muslim thought and practical religious life is felt even today.

God of Abraham By L. E. Goodman Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $ 49.95 A sustained argument for natural theology by a first - rate philosopher who also knows the Jewish traditioBy L. E. Goodman Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $ 49.95 A sustained argument for natural theology by a first - rate philosopher who also knows the Jewish traditioby a first - rate philosopher who also knows the Jewish tradition.

Working with Colin McGinn's ideas on consciousness Charlton illustrates the inconsistencies of philosophers who view mind as explainable by science, while suggesting himself that «the presence of mind in nature is not something invisible and hidden except to introspection, but the most palpable thing there is.

«Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth... one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the whole corpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis... He must at once be a Thomist and an Atomist; until that reconciliation is attempted, the pulpit and the laboratory will be forever at cross-purposes.»

Ward, an Anglican minister who was once an atheist, is a philosopher by training and Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

«Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a «human interest and a semblance of truth» into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.»

Indeed, they make use of the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who in this matter wrongly adhered to the view held by Aristotle, who was a zoologist as well as a philosopher.

The man they really need to consult is, once again, Cardinal Newman, who leveled devastating artillery against the argument from design, especially in The Idea of a University, which despite its well - deserved fame has long gone underutilized by philosophers of religion, perhaps because his critique of their work is so devastating.

* There is now a superb biography of Charles S. Peirce, with an excellent concluding essay on his thought by the historian, who is also a capable philosopher, Professor Joseph Brent, who has become a close friend, although I had not heard of him until a year or so ago.

The philosopher Rousseau distorts Locke's intention by attempting to make his understanding of who we are by nature more consistent.

That image of the philosopher - king's perfect freedom as philosopher and as king is the tyrant's dream of perfect freedom from who he is by nature.

Otherwise, of course, theoreticians and philosophers even today would have much greater chances in this respect than the «little man» who, to all appearances, dull and untouched by the absolute issues of human life, seems to live a day - to - day biological struggle for existence.

By contrast, says Socrates, the philosopher is a person who begins with absolute confidence, with a vision of eternal truth, goodness, and beauty, and with his own psychic kinship to these abiding forms.

The philosopher who claims to transcend personal concerns and so to live entirely beyond hope and fear and love is finally sustained through proud self - deception, by an illusory self - sufficiency that really depends on willful self - forgetfulness.

The classic definition by the Christian philosopher Boethius, who formed a bridge between Greek philosophy and medieval Christian philosophy, is that the human being is «anindividual substance of a rational nature,» which became a standard definition.

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

A process philosopher influenced by substantialist modes of thought and who also affirms the notion of creatio ex nihilo is Robert C.Neville.

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.»

As a biologist I have long been immensely impressed by and beholden to Whitehead's philosophy of organism (Process and Reality), in that it seems to me that he is the first great philosopher who really took trouble to comprehend the biological developments of his time.

He's a Russian political philosopher who, by some accounts, has Putin's ear, though Walter Laqueur says otherwise in his recent book, Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West.

There are secular philosophers who have attempted to derive a principled grounding for an absolute ban on abortion, but they are contradicted by other philosophers.

In the opening pages of The Philosopher's Pupil we come upon a middle - aged man who is attempting to kill his wife by pushing her car into a canal.