Sentences with phrase «contemporary philosopher who»

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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

To a large degree, these theologians have followed Whitehead's thought, but they have also used the thought of Charles Hartshorne, the contemporary American philosopher whom I have quoted earlier and who has developed Whiteheadian themes and added some of his own.

Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination of induction to the modern sense of the term, in which it is construed as a method of inference which permits some prediction of future events on the basis of past events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance of the ancient meaning of induction.

The same basic idea is found in the contemporary Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber, who contrasts the «I - Thou» with the «I - It» orientation.

In his «friendly criticism,» which we enjoy, Ed regrets that we've given so much room to contemporary philosophers of religion, for example Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga, who argue for «theistic personalism.»

MacIntyre, who portrayed the decay of Western ethics in After Virtue, is the philosopher who defines this new traditionalism, but its most vigorous spokesperson in contemporary religious life is Hauerwas.

However, neither prognosticates in the sense of many contemporary media philosophers who follow Alvin Toffler in the «futurist» genre of analysis.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

Sometimes Midgley's own remarks about the character of contemporary professional philosophy seem to lend weight to the claims of those like biologist E. O. Wilson, who regard philosophers as unhelpful amateurs (as if philosophers habitually knew nothing except what fellow philosophers had written).

The contemporary philosopher AC Grayling discusses education in the following way: «The aim of liberal education is to produce people who go on learning after their formal education has ceased who think, question, and know how to find answers when they need them.

The curator Okwui Enwezor's provocative 2008 exhibition at the International Center of Photography «Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art» (the title of which references philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1995 book, Archive Fever) highlighted numerous examples of artists who employ archival documents in their work.

This view resonates strongly with that of French philosopher Maurice Merleau - Ponty, a contemporary of Reinhardt who stated that, «the voices of painting are the voices of silence.»

Herbert Read, an art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher who founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, also joined the committee, which was led by Sir Lionel Faudel - Phillips (Chairman), and comprised of Campbell Dodgson, Lawrence Haward, the Earl of Sandwich and Alfred Longden (Secretary).

Taliesin Thomas is a Brooklyn - based artist - philosopher, writer, and lecturer who has worked in the field of contemporary Chinese art since 2001 after living two years in rural China.

Taliesin Thomas is a Brooklyn - based artist, writer and philosopher who has worked in the field of contemporary Chinese art since 2001 after living two years in rural China.

As for the essays in the catalogue that accompanies «Image World,» it should be mentioned that they make perfunctory references to Marshall McLuhan, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, as well as the predictable bow to the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, whose ideas on the media and contemporary life have captivated certain fashionable art circles and who was clearly an inspiration for this exhibition.