Sentences with phrase «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.

(2) None of the recognized great philosophers has been more widely overrated than Aristotle, unless it is Kant; these two...

The «glories and miseries of man (kind)» have been the grist for great philosophers, theologians and the writers of literary classics for millenia.

Plato was the first great philosopher in this second phase in being's history; it was he who committed the vital apostasy that would lead Western thought down its path of fruitful error.

once accused Mario Cuomo of being the «great philosopher statesman of the American nation,»» says O'Shaughnessy.

Aquinas is, I believe, one of the dozen greatest philosophers of the western world..

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.

And while we do side with Audi on this one — as one of life's great philosophers once said, «You can't stop progress» — we hope these videos of «The S1» absolutely smashing it will appease -LSB-...]

It's weird that two great philosophers on communication have seen their books so slow to migrate to e.

Employed brilliantly by the Situationists, whose great philosopher Guy Debord laid out the socio - aesthetic framework for this practice, détournements twist the terms of mimicry in ironic parody using the a semblance of the easily recognizable to dissemble and redirect the literal meaning of signs so as to construe a more honest picture of their deceptive intentions.

Three great philosophers who defend the Christian faith are: William Lane Craig, prof. of theology @ Biola University: specifically, he defends the Kalaam Cosmological argument, the A theory of time, free will and evil, and Molinism.

(1) None of the recognized great philosophers has been more widely underrated (or more misinterpreted) than Plato, unless it is Bergson; moreover, the two have important beliefs in common.

«The Boston Globe once accused Mario Cuomo of being the «great philosopher statesman of the American nation,»» says O'Shaughnessy.

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.

The funny part is that elders have expressed this type of sentiment about youngsters since the days of the great philosophers of Ancient Greece.

In conjunction with watching Star Trek, we will read excerpts from the writings of great philosophers, extract key concepts and arguments and then analyze those arguments.»

Laozi was a great philosopher who penned this popular English translation.

As the great philosopher Taylor Swift says, «Haters are gonna hate.»

As the great philosopher Tim «Lint» Armstrong once said: «All I know is that I don't know nothing.

One sign of a great philosopher is his effective use of metaphor at just the right moment.

Today Hume is recognized as a philosophical genius and widely held to be the greatest philosopher in the English language.

Gadamer is one of the great philosophers of our age because, from the desiccation of the twentieth century, employing the resources of secular philosophy (still rhetorically rich), he could find a way to teach us how to hear the voice» how to converse with God, how to live in a world in which what is has asked us a question and awaits our reply.

Here was the greatest philosopher at the university, and he was a Christian.

Then he turned into a serious study of the social and ethical theories of - the great philosophers — Plato, Aristotle, Bobber, Bentham, Mill and Locke: all of these masters stimulated his thinking much more sharply.

Yet Sir Karl Popper, a great philosopher of science, once commented that «science doesn't make assertions about ultimate questions - about the riddles of existence».

Jonathan Edwards «Freedom of the Will» (of which Princeton ethics professor Charles Ramsey said: «This book alone is sufficient to establish its author as the greatest philosopher - theologian yet to grace the American scene.»)

That is not to say that I consider the human person to be a substance in most of the senses that the great philosophers from Descartes through Kant would have accepted.6 Nor, of course, do I want the whole of the original Aristotelian doctrine, since there are undoubtedly elements in it that contributed to the post-Cartesian history of the concept of substance.

Conscious of the tremendous novelty and scope of the Whiteheadian metaphysics, we might well agree that» [p] hilosophy never reverts to its old position after the shock of a great philosopher» (PR 16).

Imagine no freedom for the great philosophers, thinkers, scientists, artists, no Leonardo Da Vinci, no Michelangelo.

From this point of view, it may be claimed that the mentality embodied in the great philosophers is more comprehensively adequate and offers a more final resting place for the human mind than anything that has come out of Israel.

All the great philosophers and intellectuals of Descartes» time, of course, were familiar withthe manner in which the Church treated Galileo and his new heliocentric theory concerning the solar system.

Now I am reading this great philosopher with so much intense.

What Heidegger teaches us (and what makes him perhaps the greatest philosopher of our century) is the art of rethinking old philosophical questions in dramatically new ways.

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

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.

Confucius, the great politician, great philosopher, and great educator, did not claim to discover his teachings but said that his ideas came from good and wise scholars of ancient times.