Sentences with phrase «first great philosopher»

As a biologist I have long been immensely impressed by and beholden to Whitehead's philosophy of organism (Process and Reality), in that it seems to me that he is the first great philosopher who really took trouble to comprehend the biological developments of his time.

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Smith, one of the great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, wasn't the first to speculate about how economies work, but he's generally thought of as the guy who more or less got it right.

One can not finish this well «written and pleasantly accessible defense of Hellenic civilization without wondering if the fierce resentment against Attic superiority (and Thornton quotes a great deal of such resentful scholarship in the early chapters) does not conceal a closet nihilism» a hostility to the light of Being first honored and brought to expression by the Greek philosophers.

Amongst philosophers and logicians, particularly amongst those who have given special attention to scientific problems, many names could be mentioned, including that great thinker, L. T. Hobhouse, whom I like to mention first because I owe so much to his writings.

First, until quite recently, most of the influential analytic philosophers of religion challenging God's existence in the face of evil had posed the problem as a strictly logical one, and thus Plantinga and other analytic philosophers of religion can hardly be criticized justly for having expended a great deal of effort in response.

Just remember: The first to take on Jesus as a psychologist, though not as a medically trained psychopathologist, was the German scholar and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest critics of Christianity (who ended up suffering an irreversible mental breakdown himself) People do not willingly die for a lie.

Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.

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Political philosophers for whom Tocqueville is «an old friend» will be able to see beyond the dubious connections between Tocqueville's life and his ideas and learn a great deal about a figure who it now appears will guide us well into the twenty - first century.

It was not for nothing that John Courtney Murray, the great American Catholic public philosopher of freedom, called Thomas Aquinas «the first Whig.»

The latter was ostensibly the first time an enslaved population revolted against its master on behalf of the «universal» values the slavers themselves professed to uphold — a rebellion the philosopher Slavoj Žižek has called «one of the greatest events in the history of humanity.»

There was great excitement back in 2015, when it was first possible to measure these «Weyl fermions» — outlandish, massless particles that had been predicted almost 90 years earlier by German mathematician, physician and philosopher, Hermann Weyl.

A startlingly original first novel by «this generation's answer to Alice Munro» (The Vancouver Sun)- a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.

Or is his move from Chicago to an avocado farm in Texas more self - motivated, sparked by his first reading of the great philosophers?