Sentences with phrase «century thinker»

Some people look at him as a great eighteenth - century thinker, writer, and preacher, and that is as far as they go.

One of Molly Eldredge's favorite quotes is by the 18th - century thinker Georg Lichtenberg: «In each of us, there is a little of all of us.»

Of course, Leclerc is well aware that not all of these seventeenth - century divergencies from Aristotelian physics would be accepted by every seventeenth - century thinker, but he takes them as typical of the time, and further holds that all of them have been very powerful influences on scientific thought since that century.

Certainly no twentieth - century thinker did more to show that the human mind can not be reduced to a machine.

Thomas Hobbes was a seventeenth - century thinker who saw the problem clearly.

The Key Differences Between Kierkegaard and Girard This very brief overview of Kierkegaard's thought suggests that Kierkegaard can be legitimately described as a 19th century thinker who reveals the workings of mimetic desire.

Some Muslims perceive Ahmadiyyas as heretics because of their view that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a 19th - century thinker, was a prophet sent by God - something the other branches of Islam reject.

The groundwork was begun by 18th century thinkers.

All ancient talk about rhetoric refers to three elements — ethos, pathos and logos; 18th - century thinkers added a fourth — occasion or context.

17th century thinkers like John Locke saw the horrors that organized religion brought on the world with the Thirty Years War.

But this position seems to be in line with that of the now notorious nineteenth - century thinkers who sought the historical person of Jesus behind the records and criticized the records from that vantage point.

Inspired by the success of physics, eighteenth - century thinkers became convinced that the mysteries of nature could be fully grasped through careful research.

Of course, there continue to be remnants of the older view, since it pervades the thought of the pre-twentieth century thinkers who are studied.

Consider first how deeply both 20th - century thinkers were explicitly indebted to Hume in particular, as well as to other classical British proponents of this approach (e.g., Locke).

Late - twentieth - century thinkers are rediscovering many things Augustine knew» that knowing begins with the self as a basic datum; that the knower tends to become what he or she knows; and that knowers «must be roused and shaken up from time to time if [they are] to pay real attention once again.»

The empirical theologians would stress the practical dangers of the anti-realism and subjectivism in these same thinkers.10 This is not to say that the empirical theologians would simply call these late twentieth century thinkers nihilistic, for that assumes that the loss of foundationalism simply requires the loss of realism and that the acceptance of relativism simply requires subjectivism.

Leibniz had also argued against most seventeenth - century thinkers, that whatever is purely inert, and without any capacity to act, is nothing, so that the source of the action of all things is intrinsic to them.

He then uses Leibniz to oppose most of the tenets of other (less Aristotelian) seventeenth - century thinkers, retaining only one feature of their doctrine.

As Christians, these third - century thinkers also held that the best way to contemplate God is through meditation on sacred scripture.

For many eighteenth century thinkers it was axiomatic that a republic could only work on a small scale.

Unfortunately, he does so mainly by criticizing the views of three straw men: Adam Smith, the 18th - century author of The Wealth of Nations, and 20th - century thinkers Frederick Taylor, the inventor of management science, and B. F. Skinner, a pioneer of behavioral psychology.

Along with additional images and scenes from the film, quotes on the subject matter from 21st century thinkers, scientists and businessmen are interspersed instead of the usual critics blurbs.

The pendulum is ready to swing from overreliance on rote learning and prepping for standardized tests to preparing students to be 21st century thinkers.

Most know that the teach - to - the - test model just doesn't enable schools to prepare 21st - century thinkers.

His body of work has established him as one of the key 20th - century thinkers in the realm of color.

Not exact matches

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Pete Kendall explores the socionomic forces that shaped the life and career of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.

The answer to this question has been debated for centuries, and intelligent thinkers have come to different conclusions.

Abraham Geiger, a major thinker in the nineteenth - century Reform movement, declared that the idea of a postmortem existence «should not be expressed in terms which suggest a future revival, a resurrection of the body; rather they must stress the immortality of the soul.»

In the century just past, a whole host of great thinkers and writers (mostly Catholic, but not all of them) wrote on the proper way to live.

Origen of Alexandria and other early Christian thinkers realized centuries ago that the promises of return are part of the hope in a future Messianic age.

In disputes with Jews, Christian thinkers in the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the church.

In the beginning of the 19th century, however, some thinkers became convinced that pure, uninterpreted experience was only a dream, and that in fact every experience is already somehow interpreted.

The actual situation has been that by the time the encounter with Buddhism became important to Western thinkers in the nineteenth century, the traditional idea of God was already losing convincing power.

Even worse over the centuries since Descartes right up to the invariably profound pages of First Things Catholic thinkers have downplayed the metaphysical relevance of modern science.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

But if such people are actually out there, I suppose that reading the works of a life - affirming thinker from the eighteenth century is far from the worst way that they could spend their time.

Jewish historians used to speak of Moses Mendelssohn, the late - eighteenth - century German Jewish thinker, as the man who single - handedly launched his previously ghettoized people into modernity.

Best known for his classic defense of liberty and polemic against statism, The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek was deservedly honored by the Nobel Prize as one of the most influential economic and social thinkers of the twentieth century.

Since the time of Ibn Khaldun, more than five centuries ago, no great thinker has arisen in the Muslim world.

He is the author of one of the most important commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew published over the past century, and a reviewer has called him one of the five most important thinkers in Jesus research over the past 125 years.

In recent centuries a lot of Protestant thinkers have ignored those boundaries.

Before, however, we look at the questions of intellectual openness, fellowship with other faiths and social engagement, it will help to see why many thinkers picture the new century — it seems presumptuous to speculate about the new millennium — as very different from the century that is drawing to a close.

Peter Berger, who died on June 27 at age eighty - eight, ranked among the most distinguished sociological thinkers and public intellectuals of the past half century.

Peter Seewald «Without any doubt Benedict XVI is one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century»

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.

Prominent Islamic thinkers who came to the west in the past century made remarkable statements about the west... They said we see here Islam without Muslims, whereas back in our home countries we have Muslims without Islam.

As a thinker Holmes was a great destroyer in the mold of Hume or Nietzsche, a tradition that continued in debased form in the century of Russell, Foucault, and Derrida.

I'm not sure, but I hold lightly any of my thoughts, and hope centuries of thinkers before me don't mind that I have borrowed and corrupted theirs?

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.