Published by the Institut für Raumexperimente on the occasion of Olafur Eliasson: Contact, the book includes a lecture
given by philosopher Michel Bitbol at the Institut and includes drawings made by Eliasson during the development of the exhibition.
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».
Not exact matches
He's not exactly another
philosopher - pope, but there are other ways of being an inspirational, evangelical, and poetically theological pope: For Augustine, the joy promised
by the Lord to his followers is
given and lives in spe, in hope.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by nick bostrom oxford, 352 pages, $ 29.95 Since cofounding the World Transhumanist Association in 1998, the Swedish - born Oxford
philosopher Nick Bostrom has attempted to
give a serious academic mien to the movement known as transhumanism.
The modern study of economics was started
by Adam Smith, a Scottish
philosopher who emphasised the practical and
gave almost no thought to men's higher purposes.
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.
John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and
philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument
by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible
give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.
Milbank's intelligent and theologically informed analysis of what we mean
by «the Other»
gives us the resources to undo from within the work of the deconstructionists» those postmodern
philosophers and critics who hunt down and denounce any construction of identity forged in opposition to others, and yet who depend on those wicked «other - using» others to forge their own identities.
Somewhere in Appearance and Reality the English idealist
philosopher F. H. Bradley remarked that «the man who, transported
by his passion, feels and knows that only love
gives the secret of the universe», is not engaging in proper metaphysical discourse.
The Relevance of Cosmic Unity In the lead letter of the same issue of Philosophy Now the prominent anti-reductionist
philosopher of ethics and of science Mary Midgely makes a point often made
by Edward Holloway (though he might not have used the word «choice»), namely that «simple logic surely shows that natural selection can not be the universal explanation because «selection» only makes sense a clearly specified range of choices — an idea to which far too little attention has been
given.»
A disturbing footnote to the story of Zionism: Burge reports that Martin Buber, the great Jewish
philosopher, mystic and prophet, was
given a house owned
by a prosperous Palestinian family which fled to Egypt seeking safety during the 1948 war.
As a politico - religious concept, this notion has the distinctive form
given it
by John Locke, the
philosophers has the distinctive form
given it
by John Locke, the
philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the Puritans, and a few others.
We are often exhorted
by scientists and
philosophers alike to accept the material
given to us
by sense perception as though it is the rock - bottom foundation of our knowledge of the physical world, Simultaneously we are told to refrain from coloring neutral sense data over with our subjective wishes and teleological desires.
In his reflections upon Valéry's work, Derrida contends that the
philosopher gives a formality to philosophical language
by forging a connection with natural language that allows mere ciphers to resemble the thing in itself (MP 293).
Metaphysics has been a field of study on its deathbed since Kant, its few intellectual life - support systems having finally been unplugged
by the very caretakers of the profession that
gave it birth —
philosophers of the positivist and linguistic schools.
Al - Ghazali, the great mystical
philosopher, in his book The Rescuer from Error
gives a vivid account of the spiritual crisis he endured until,
by the mercy of God, his way was enlightened and he regained the power to guide himself to the truth.
She quotes
philosopher Mary R. Joyce: «In the first form of prostitution women are paid
by men, but when women prostitute themselves to what is called the «baby scrambler» (the suction machine), they
give their money to men more often than not.
Specifically referred to
by the Court was evidence
given by BHA Vice President and moral
philosopher Simon Blackburn, who had said, «True respect for life means respect for the persons whose lives are in question - refusing assistance, when their plea is settled and uncoerced discounts and demeans their personhood.
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.
I recently attended a lecture in NYC
given by Gabrielle Roth, a
philosopher and movement meditation instructor, entitled Confessions of a Spiritual...
Once there was a disciple of a Greek
philosopher who was commanded
by his Master for three years to
give money to everyone who insulted him.
By situating important academic concepts and skills in the context of projects and internships, High Tech High
gives Morikawa and his classmates what John Dewey, the great pragmatic
philosopher and educational reformer of the early twentieth century, called «both magnet to attract and glue to hold» their learning.
You can be a brilliant moral
philosopher with a prizewinning doctoral thesis expounding the evils of war, and still be
given a hard time
by a draft board evaluating your claim to be a conscientious objector.
Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired
by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround
by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / /
by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / /
by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / /
by writers and
philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father
gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / /
by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / /
by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / /
by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / /
by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.
Throughout the Fall of 2016, public tours of In the Belly of the Whale will be
given by: Aaron Peck (author, art critic), Nicoline van Harskamp (artist), Mohammad Salemy (critic and curator) and Aaron Schuster (
philosopher).
By means of accounts given by, among others, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a surgeon, a philosopher, a historian, a dancer and a musician, the phenomenon of phantom pain is viewed as a symptom of the denial and invisibility of such traumas as genocide, slavery and colonisation that are experienced collectivel
By means of accounts
given by, among others, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a surgeon, a philosopher, a historian, a dancer and a musician, the phenomenon of phantom pain is viewed as a symptom of the denial and invisibility of such traumas as genocide, slavery and colonisation that are experienced collectivel
by, among others, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a surgeon, a
philosopher, a historian, a dancer and a musician, the phenomenon of phantom pain is viewed as a symptom of the denial and invisibility of such traumas as genocide, slavery and colonisation that are experienced collectively.
There, well - known
philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford)
gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented
by climate change.