Sentences with phrase «excogitated by a philosopher»

Aristotle's view on the nature of happiness was summed up poignantly by philosopher Will Durant: «We are what we repeatedly do.»

It's part of an ultra-individualistic, stoic ethos similar to one espoused by philosopher Ayn Rand.

This is deconstruction in very much the original sense of the term, as put into circulation by philosopher Jacques Derrida.

The answer» and please note that there is an answer here» is nothing like those rationalizations proposed by the philosophers: «Drive them out like sheep to the slaughter.»

A lot has been changed by philosophers, scholars, and creeds, but I still accept all good people who believe in the Biblical Jesus as Christians.

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

This analogy was eloquently advocated by the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard:

Recent speculations in physics resulting in theories of a finite world of space - time have however been taken by some philosophers as warrant for belief in some infinite reality «beyond» the finite world, upon which that world is dependent.

When he started his studies, he was inspired by philosophers and scholars.

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

Moreover, since God is not merely a construct of the philosopher but is actually encountered by the philosopher, philosophy must take this into account.

«1 In fact, the idea of God is not invented by the philosopher but encountered in human history so that it can not be sustained by merely logical construction.

Not until the 1980s and»90s did archival research by biographers and analysis by philosophers of science uncover the manipulations of evidence, exploitation of patients and artful pseudoscience that were built into Freud's theoretical edifice.

I will highlight this against the backdrop of Whiteheadian thought within which it has been debated by philosophers, and compare this with the philosophic reflections of three theoretical chemists.

I once read a blog written by a philosopher making this point about proving a negative and using the very same example.

Besides, at that time I was already planning another book which would contain critical essays on Hartshorne's concept of God by philosophers and theologians from diverse backgrounds and different countries.

Theocracy is based on studies of an old book or two written by philosophers and politicians in addition to stories handed down over generations with no real physical evidence to analyze.

In this article Childress formulated just war theory in terms of the logic of prima facie duties as defined by the philosopher W. D. Ross.

I'm all for subsidiarity as described by our philosopher - pope.

An epistemology of the cross would be more comfortable with the kind of «objectivity» described by philosopher Sandra Harding.

Moreover, recent scholarship, especially by philosopher Karsten Harries («Heidegger as Political Thinker,» Review of Metaphysics, 1976, pp. 642 - 69), bears out the notion that an inner relation exists between Heidegger's general ontology in Being and Time and his Nazi - period thought and action.

This is something like the «blik» discussed by philosophers in an earlier decade, but it is not wholly noncognitive: explicating it requires propositions capable of being true or false.

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

One of the searching interpretations of atonement in the twentieth century was given by the philosopher Josiah Royce in The Problem of Christianity.8 Royce's philosophic idealism was built upon the tragic aspect of life and what he called the «moral burden of the individual».

If a process theologian is one who has been influenced by philosophers such as Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, then obviously you are right.

They were followed by the philosophers al - Kindi, al - Farabi, and Ibn Sina (Avicenna).

Despite the fact that leading process theists have devoted a substantial part of their writings to the discussion of evil, we find publication after publication by philosophers on the problem of...

Nor does it even imply that the reasons for choice are different from those usually listed by philosophers of science: accuracy, simplicity, fruitfulness, and the like.

A view held by many contemporary metaphysicians is that the problem of induction, so much discussed by philosophers of science, arises only because of mistaken metaphysical views; in particular views (deriving from Hume) about the nature of the causal relation and / or about the internal relations among different entities.1 Contrary to this view, I will try...

If Levering is correct, we shouldn't expect this problem to be understood adequately by the philosophers and social scientists.

The man they really need to consult is, once again, Cardinal Newman, who leveled devastating artillery against the argument from design, especially in The Idea of a University, which despite its well - deserved fame has long gone underutilized by philosophers of religion, perhaps because his critique of their work is so devastating.

Despite the spirited defense of Whitehead's superior philosophic originality recently offered by Charles Hartshorne, 4 the charge of «muddleheadedness» lodged by philosophers of a more Russellian, analytic temperament has proven the more serious threat to Whitehead's reputation than Whitehead's own charge of «simplemindedness» has proven to Russell's.

After all, I'm not still in that comfortable college setting discussing «reality» as portrayed by philosophers and the media.

For Schleiermacher it was to be a historian's research agenda, followed by a philosopher's agenda.

When you're really going through it, that is actually not the time to start reading a book by some philosopher on evil.

This period has been aptly called the axial age by philosopher Karl Jaspers.

In a June / July 2007 First Thingsarticle he acknowledges that «the argument that the God of Israel is in fact the one God conceived by the philosophers... was essential to the plausibility of both Jewish and Christian witness in the Hellenic world.»

The exultation of Science is still evident in modern society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»

I once attended a lecture by a philosopher who, in the midst of a tirade against the Christian right, interrupted himself and admitted that his atheism also had a problem: «I hate to admit it,» he conceded, «but I am a qualia freak.»

A collection of essays by philosophers of technology examining the significance of Borgmann's work in disclosing the dynamic of technology in everyday life.

Biological generalizations have been considered by some philosophers of science as different in kind from laws because of the failure they seem to share with accidental generalizations to meet the conditions for law - likeness (Toulmin 1953, Ch.

Standing at the end of the history of this dualism it is easy for us to see why any attribution of «mentality» (and therefore of purposefulness) to nature will be dismissed as romantic anthropomorphism by philosophers like Klemke.

Although this misinterpretation had been effectively criticized, not only by philosophers such as Bergson, Meyerson, Whitehead and Reichenbach, but also by a number of physicists — among them Einstein himself, Langevin, Eddington, etc. — it was again revived recently by Costa de Beauregard, Adolf Gruenbaum, and J. J. Smart, and apparently accepted by W. Quine.

Reflection on the question continued into the first centuries of the medieval period, when a full and robust definition of the person was first formed by the philosopher - theologian, St Boëthius.

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.

This is a question which will surely need to be considered by philosophers who have an interest in the very significant issues raised by Stapp's work.

Indeed, the same questions about the self - consistency and plausibility of traditional free will theism could be, and have been, raised by philosophers with other perspectives.

The revival of interest in the metaphysics of substance has occurred in recent years by philosophers in the analytic camp who are known as «essentialists».

On the whole, Hartshorne was better received by ornithologists than by philosophers.

For those who rest easily and uncritically within the uses of language in the Christian community, the kinds of questions posed by the philosophers of language may lead to uneasiness and therefore rejection, or the questions may not even be considered.