Sentences with phrase «contemporary thinkers»

Many contemporary thinkers do indeed recognise purpose in the universe.

Art in Context: Hear ideas from contemporary thinkers about art, the business of art, the history of art, and the controversies and challenges of public art.

The recognition of the central and constitutive role and the necessity of the varied institutions that exist between the state and the individual has been a staple observation of thinkers from Tocqueville to contemporary thinkers on both the nominal right and nominal left, such as Bertrand de Jouvenel, Robert Nisbet, Russell Kirk, Christopher Lasch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Wilson Carey McWilliams, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.

The Artist's Institute in New York dedicates each six - month season to a single artist, whose work becomes the occasion for a series of exhibitions, public programs and graduate seminars with contemporary thinkers in art, music, film, literature, science, art history, philosophy and other creative pursuits.

Unlike many contemporary thinkers who have rebelled against the Hegelian legacy, Hegel himself stressed God's dependence on the created order as the divine «developed» according to the concepts of universality (God as eternal idea), particularity (God's sensible appearance in creation, culminating in the person of Christ), and individuality (the Holy Spirit's reconciling creation with God).

The author, warden of Greyfriars and lecturer in history and doctrine at Oxford, clearly poses the question of his title, examines the answers to the question proposed by Scripture, authoritative tradition, and a wide variety of contemporary thinkers, and then presents his own conviction, persuasively giving the reasons why.

The philosophical and theological roots of «secular modernity» continue to be exposed and examined, and Caldecott calls on many contemporary thinkers in support of his diagnosis.

The Institute dedicates its program to a single artist for a six - month season, and that artist's work becomes the occasion for a series of exhibitions, public programs, and private discussions with leading contemporary thinkers from a variety of disciplines.

In fact, Powell suggests, most contemporary thinkers have dethroned Luther's distinction between the Deus absconditus and the Deus revelatus (God hidden and revealed) by stressing how God's redemptive acts in history reveal nothing new about God's intra-divine life, but act to confirm what is eternally true.

I have been deeply influenced by East Asian classical culture, tribal societies and their myths, and feminists and liberationists among contemporary thinkers, all of whom I would include in the ongoing conversation.

Ward's succinct prose and his deft use of western philosophy, from the latest insights into Plato up to the current state of post-Kantian epistemological debate, might have justified the subtitle «An engaging primer for the history of western natural philosophy» — omissions from contemporary thinkers mentioned below notwithstanding.

More than any other contemporary thinker it was Reinhold Niebuhr who taught us that the human spirit, which is the unity of the self in its freedom, possesses a transcendent outreach.

This is a question oft - posed by contemporary thinkers and materialists in particular.

Our nation may have been ordered around the prerogatives of a select class of citizens, but no serious contemporary thinker argues that civil rights can be legitimately denied to a person on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.

During his artist talk, Gillick discussed his interest in philosophy and how the conceptual conundrums that afflict contemporary thinkers also find representation in his work.

Thus a ruler is called khalifa when «he replaces the one who was before him, and takes his place in the affair, and is his successor (khalaf)».68 There are many contemporary thinkers who opine that human beings are the vicegerents (khalifa) of God on earth.

Aimed squarely at the young media - savvy consumers of the «Electric Information Age,» these small, inexpensive paperbacks brought the ideas of contemporary thinkers to the masses and established a distinctive new graphics - rich, montage - based genre of bookmaking that still resonates loudly today.

In the next few weeks leading contemporary thinkers and artists from the South of Africa will be at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to talk about their ideas and their work.

The collective will also host intimate public Dialogues with contemporary thinkers and participants in special interior and exterior spaces around the city, as well as conduct a series of Ink Gathering walks with special guests and small groups of enthusiastic visitors.

Some contemporary thinkers, however, suspect all such references to communal ideals, regardless of whether these ideals are advanced within epistemological contexts, and this brings me to the third and final difficulty that attends current conversation about community.

Given the pervasiveness of commercial society, it would seem that contemporary thinkers would be even more vulnerable to this problem than classical republicans.

As Jessica Kimpell put it in a previous post, «it would seem that contemporary thinkers would be even more vulnerable to this problem than classical republicans.»

Among its activities, the backpackers will learn and teach principles on globalization, third world development, and the Jewish tradition of social and environmental justice from the Prophets to contemporary thinkers.