Sentences with phrase «classical philosophers»

For classical philosophers law had an educational function; it was set up to structure individual and communal life in order to produce certain human virtues.

She was praised by Voltaire as the equal of the greatest of classical philosophers; she was condemned by her enemies, mostly foreign, as «the Messalina of the north.»

misses the whole reason classical philosophers thought his existence necessary in the first place.

Instead of keeping the Word of God separate, they mixed biblical truth with the ideas of the world's unsaved classical philosophers of Greece.

The Christians, in their way, agree with the classical philosophers that the glory that was Rome is nothing in light of eternity — although by eternity they mean the life beyond death that the personal God makes possible for each particular person.

So far from being the wholly absolute and immutable Being of the classical philosophers, God must really be conceived as the eminently relative One, whose openness to change contingently on the actions of others is literally boundless.

The suspicion grows that the clergy's ambivalence, if not indifference, to what we do for a living stems less from evangelical zeal than from the unacknowledged sway of aristocratic values, canonized by the classical philosophers.

«Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists» Visions» Getty Villa 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles OPENS: April 18 The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated and reinstalled Getty Villa, this group show gathers contemporary artworks that engage with the teachings and concepts of the classical philosopher.

The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated and reinstalled Getty Villa, this group show gathers contemporary artworks that engage with the teachings and concepts of the classical philosopher.

According to Brian Tamanaha, the classical philosophers «thought [it] to be just that among equals everyone be ruled» and deemed what is unjust to be that which is «lawless» and «unfair.»