Sentences with phrase «century most philosophers»

Until the twentieth century most philosophers believed that language included a referential element.

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The philosopher most attuned to this paradox is Alasdair MacIntyre, and his analysis goes furthest, I think, in explaining why the twentieth century is so uniquely appalling.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

The early - eighteenth - century philosopher Nicolas Malebranche is the Christian most associated with occasionalism.

Wittgenstein, while distant, unapproachable, and eccentric, is beyond question the most brilliant philosopher of this century.

Rawls» 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, is justly called the most influential work in political philosophy of the last century, at least among academic philosophers.

Perhaps the three most influential philosophers of Judaism in the twentieth century are the neo «Kantian Hermann Cohen, the existentialist Martin Buber, and the recent hero of postmodern thought Emmanuel Levinas, whose influence as Jews on secular thought is rivalled only by that of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky.

Maurice Merleau - Ponty (1908 - 1961) was one of the most gifted and original 20th - century French philosophers.

But in view of the power and tenacity of the scientistic ideology, which abhors the very idea of myth, it is not surprising that Whitehead has received so little attention from philosophers of science, despite his being one of the most original and creative thinkers of this century.

Most 20th - century philosophers greatly distrust speculative philosophy, abandoning the great systems of the past in their seemingly endless search to express the nature of reality.

Indeed the lack of serious engagement by philosophers with science, particularly physics, is all too apparent, including among most philosophers and theologians within the Church during the last century.

Immanuel Kant, the 18th century philosopher who was the most famous proponent of the theory, once argued that it was always wrong to lie, even if a murderer asked whether his intended victim was inside a house so he could kill him.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Jean Bodin (c. 1529 — 1596) The humanist philosopher and jurist Jean Bodin was one of the most prominent political thinkers of the sixteenth century.

Diogenes was a 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher, and the most famous of a group known as the Cynics.

American philosopher John Dewey is one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century.

For all her fearsome «mastery over the thunderbolt,» she falls in love with a mortal in the twelfth century, a Spanish Arab philosopher whose books, the most famous of which is The Incoherence of the Incoherence, are banned and burned because he argues for rationalism instead of religious fundamentalism.

Initially, my research proposals caused a bit of anger because I wanted to work with the notes of one of the most important philosophers of the last century, and I was unable to read them.

Two brand new portraits currently being completed for the exhibition are inspired by the complex and troubled relationship between poet Paul Celan, a Holocaust survivor, and Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential 20th century philosophers.

He was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Innovators in 2001, a continuing series that features the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers of the 21st century, and he continues to be shaped and shape «contemporary networked media art cultures of remix, glitch, social and environmental encounters».

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922 — 1996), a physicist, is one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, perhaps the most influential.