Sentences with phrase «for great philosophers»
Imagine no freedom for the great philosophers, thinkers, scientists, artists, no Leonardo Da Vinci, no Michelangelo.
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The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»
We all know the story: Carrying a lantern at midday into the marketplace, the great Cynical philosopher Diogenes states that he is searching for an honest man.
Since most modern thinkers began with the premise that God exists, these philosophers have used their great philosophic arguments for the existence of God.
In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.
And yet it would be difficult to exaggerate not only the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.
Pozas was speaking as an advocate for the Great Ape Project (GAP), the brainchild of Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal - rights philosopher Paola Cavalieri.
5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.
It was this quest for factual certainty that prompted Aristotle in the fourth century before Christ to become, for his day, a great scientist as well as philosopher.
Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.
Dart, John, «Buddhist Selflessness Called Christian Goal: Philosopher Hartshorne Cites Promise of Living for Future «Greater than Self.»»
Spinoza, the philosopher, lived long ago in Holland, and ground and polished lenses for a living while he thought great thoughts of God.
He is of significance for Judaism not only as religious philosopher, translator of the Bible, and translator and re-creator of Hasidic legends and thought, but also as a religious personality who has provided leadership of a rare quality during the time of his people's greatest trial and suffering since the beginning of the diaspora.
There is in most of us a spark of reason, and much was achieved for universal human moral standing by the great Stoic philosophers who emphasized this logos in us all.
They express their love, and they come to know what it is to be loved, through the actions which are appropriate for this experience: «I love my baby because I kiss it, and I kiss it so that I may love it more,» said a great philosopher - saint of our own time.
Nevertheless, Hartshorne and Weiss must be credited for their part in drawing attention to the works of one who is now commonly referred to as the greatest philosopher America has produced.
The writer could, of course, have learned this attitude from his study of Spinoza, the philosopher for whom he expresses greatest sympathy.
For him, it is not the systematic world of the speculative philosopher that is of greatest value, but the natural, chaotic process which lies hidden behind the falsifying face of reason, a process whose true nature can only be known on a purely aesthetic level through experience in its immediacy («Beyond Good and Evil,» BWN Section 213; «Will to Power,» Section 794).
Otherwise, of course, theoreticians and philosophers even today would have much greater chances in this respect than the «little man» who, to all appearances, dull and untouched by the absolute issues of human life, seems to live a day - to - day biological struggle for existence.
For this reason, the philosopher can act positively, truly without fear even unto death (avoiding the merely apparent fearlessness that is in thrall to an even greater fear).
I said that I consider the failure of scientists, theologians, and philosophers to pursue the quest for a new metaphysics in the early twentieth century to be a great tragedy.
Rational activity of the sort so prized by the Greek philosophers could be, for the Indian, at best one factor in the total life of the soul alongside others of equal or greater centrality.
But it is strange and striking how little else Nietzsche has to say out loud about family, because the classical or pagan pursuit of what it means for a family to be great is perhaps the most significant and enduring example of noble values that a philosopher of noble values could hope to find.
Pozas was speaking as an advocate for the Great Ape Project (GAP), the brainchild of Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal - rights philosopher Paola....
Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.
It is merited by Jalal al - Din Rumi, not because he is a great philosopher, for he scorned philosophy, but because of his great mystical insight.
It is, of course, a mark of the very greatest philosophers, of Kant for instance, that they have sought the middle way between those two positions, or rather have sought to do justice to the insights both contained.
Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying, «We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another — doubtless very different — St. Benedict.»
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.
Hartshorne's merit is a lesser one, but important for all that: he shows us how neoclassical metaphysics is anchored in the great philosophers of the past and thus allows us to evaluate the present philosophy more easily.
Take, for example, the uncompromising debate that took place between the young Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann, a student of the great neo «Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen and author of the formidable Philosophy of Judaism (1933).
Chou Tun - i (1017 - 73) was the first great neo-Confucian philosopher to set out the major themes that Chu Hsi and Wang Yang - ming took for granted.7 His classic, «An explanation of the Diagram of the Great Ultimate,» began with this paraggreat neo-Confucian philosopher to set out the major themes that Chu Hsi and Wang Yang - ming took for granted.7 His classic, «An explanation of the Diagram of the Great Ultimate,» began with this paragGreat Ultimate,» began with this paragraph:
This school has continued even to our day, and although we understand that it was filled with men of great learning and zeal for divinity, it is recorded that the said person was especially distinguished at that time, in as much as he had come from that sect of philosophers who are called Stoics.
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.
Sometimes theologians and philosophers spend their time either «paying God metaphysical compliments,» as Whitehead once phrased it, or in assuming that for his greater glory they must make him utterly alien to everything that we know and experience and care for.
It was not for nothing that John Courtney Murray, the great American Catholic public philosopher of freedom, called Thomas Aquinas «the first Whig.»
Going along with the notion that the philosopher's impression of America's great autumn sport was an accurate one, a task force of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writers, reporters and photographers, under the combined generalship of Associate Editor Alfred Wright and Special Contributor Herman Hickman, have assembled for next week's issue a volume which should be as important for the ardent 1956 football fan as the works of Clausewitz are for the student of warfare.
For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.
Texts Cruddas and Rutherford's NS review of Richard Reeves and Philip Collins's The Liberal Republic; «No turning back», by Neal Lawson (NS, 5 March 2009); Bunting has written sympathetically about another communitarian philosopher, Michael Sandel, who, in his 2009 Reith Lectures, called for religious ideas to be given greater prominence to counter the amoralism of the market.
Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, science writer and film director Matthew Chapman (who is Charles Darwin's great — great - grandson), science philosopher Austin Dacey, science writer Chris Mooney, marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum and I decided to push for a presidential science debate.
Since 1993, when Singer and Italian philosopher Paola Cavalieri established the group, its members have advocated for a United Nations declaration that great apes, like humans, are entitled to life, liberty, and protection from torture.
Psychologists and neuroscientists (and of course, philosophers) have long pondered such quandaries that come down to whether one person should be sacrificed for the greater good?
The Greek philosopher Plato said «I fast for greater mental and physical efficiency.»
Patanjali was a great Indian philosopher best known for The Yoga Sutras, the most respected text on classical yoga written several millenniums ago.
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