Sentences with phrase «followed by the philosophers»

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

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

Not exact matches

Not only have philosophers habitually sought to justify their positions by refuting others; but we have every reason from intellectual history and the nature of man to think that this method must be followed.

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

1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $ 34.99 He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says a political philosopher who follows biblical scholarship.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

There are some Whiteheadian philosophers, no doubt, who would tend to think that immanence is adequately explained by the temporal aspect of process: present prehending actual entity following in temporal succession past actual entities which have completed their concrescence and become fully determinate.

The notions of intellect and will or desireare schemata that we (following the philosophers of ancient Greece) impose on human life for the purpose of describing and influencing it; and the notions of faith, hope and charity are further schemata fitted on by theologians as life rises above what is natural.

In fact, the task of the philosopher appears to me here to be distinguished from that of the theologian, in the following manner: biblical theology has the function of developing the kerygma according to its own conceptual system; it has the duty of criticizing preaching, both by confronting it with its origin and by reorganizing it in a meaningful framework, in a discourse of its own kind, corresponding to the internal coherence of the kerygma itself.

The event was called off following a protest by some lecturers and students at a reference he once made to the claim of a particular philosopher that the verdict on Galileo was «rational and just».

Following, albeit at considerable distance, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's analysis of «practice «in After Virtue [3] I will mean this by «practice»:

Despite these difficulties, some competent philosophers still defend dualism (notably Richard Swinburne), and others propose new ways of imagining personal survival of death, Yet every such attempt is followed by a counterattack.

The pattern is to have an intellectual autobiography, followed by critical essays and responses by the living philosopher, as well as a bibliography.

If you're into this area you probably know that the hard scientists (Eccles) are surrounded by lots of softer philosophers, (I wouldn't call Popper soft, but the rest of them) and the denial of anything non-physical that is the baseline of the scene means nobody every really followed up Eccles work there.

Berkeley Rose Waldorf School, a Member of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN), follows the educational principles developed by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925).

In 2001, «Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone», the first movie of the series, was released followed by twelve - year - old Radcliffe in the forest.

The community - based AIDES was founded by sociologist and notable activist Daniel Defert in 1984 following the death of his long - time partner, famed philosopher and historian Michel Foucault.

An omnivorous reader, influenced by the poet Rimbaud, as well as philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and with a love of music but little formal training in fine art, Nolan turned to painting at the age of 21, following in the footsteps of abstract painters like Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy.

It is a sort of docudrama following the Moss family through their daily life of commutes and gymnastic classes and shopping at the power center, with commentary by the always articulate planner Ken Greenberg, new urbanist Andreas Duany, philosopher Mark Kingwell and, of course, Jim Kunstler at his best.