Sentences with phrase «by radical thinkers»

The Enlightenment was promoted by radical thinkers and philosophers in the coffee houses of Scotland and England, before spreading throughout Europe, and particularly to France.

Not exact matches

Already in the nineteenth century Blake and Dostoevsky proclaimed a Christ who can be known only by passing through the death of God, and, if we are radical enough, we might understand that Hegel and Nietzsche were Christian thinkers who grasped the necessity of a theological atheism.

These curious claims by Albert Schweitzer (in The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949]-RRB- lead one to wonder what he means by mysticism and whether, in the face of being variously labeled «idealist,» «rationalist,» «existentialist» and «radical» free - thinker, he is a mystic after all.

Albert Schweitzer's curious claims lead one to wonder what he means by mysticism and whether, in the face of being variously labeled «idealist,» «rationalist,» «existentialist» and «radical» free - thinker, he is a mystic after all.

The apparatus of scholarship is there, but the book's each and every claim represents a radical reduction of social reality and experience, particularly Faludi's presumption that any rethinking undertaken by any feminist at any time, if the thinker in question comes out at some place Faludi dislikes, constitutes a prima facie case that the woman in question has become a backlash pawn.

Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary truths, is the same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.

My central claim in the book is that the «ontological turn'taken by a number of thinkers of radical or agonist democracy, in the belief that reflecting on the essential dynamics of political being would engender a revivified understanding of possibilities for democratic action, created a particularly influential strand of socially weightless theorising.

The appointment seems a favorable one for the people of Denmark, since the doctor is a man who champions the Age of Enlightenment, a rationalist who carries with him books by Voltaire and Rousseau, doubtless smuggled in despite of Denmark's censorship laws against «radical thinkers.»

Curiously, a kind of salvation for both arrives in the same person: Dr. Johann Struensee (Mikkelsen), a radical thinker who is bemused by the silly pomp of cou rt and enraged by the Council's ineffectual governing.

By welcoming radical thinkers to take risks as they address complex questions in real time with their public, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary creative practice.