Sentences with phrase «history of this idea»

From Pericles through Edmund Burke, Borat and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Holdforth offers a history of the idea of manners: why they exist, how they developed, and why they matter today.

Yes vision, innovative and disruptive products, and exporting is absolutely great and vital to an healthy economy, but it seems to me that comparing Einstein, Gandi and other great men in history of ideas to the likes of Branson and Jobs is an intellectual fallacy.

Taken to refer to the history of ideas, they seem to name the periods before, during, and after the Enlightenment; but taken to refer to the history of events, they seem to name the period from creation to the rise of science, the period from the rise of science until World War II, and the period since the war.

The book, then, turns out to be as much about the history of ideas as it is about psychological constants.

This study of the history of ideas leads also through practical experience to a Christological conclusion that undergirds a vibrant humanism that makes secular humanisms pale by comparison.

Diogenes is, in the history of ideas, unique.

1For the history of the idea, see Heinz Werner, «Microgenesis and Aphasia,» Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology 52 (1956), 347 - 353.

His interests are the metaphysics of time, the history of ideas, and the conceptual foundations of biological evolution.

Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»

[7] James E. Crimmins, «Bentham on Religion: Atheism and the Secular Society», Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

As he moves from pure history of ideas to historical sociology, his method is thoroughly Weberian.

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Nisbet, who died in 1996, wrote numerous books, including The Quest for Community (his first, in 1953), Twilight of Authority (1975), and History of the Idea of Progress (1980).

The conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.

X-XII, and «Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion,» Journal of History of Ideas, 5 (1944): 176ff.

6 Victor Lowe, «The Influence of Bergson, James, and Alexander on Whitehead,» Journal of the History of Ideas 10 (1949), 267.

My best friend always wanted to know more about philosophy and the history of ideas.

A theological and supernatural view of exegesis is then automatically dismissed, thought unworthy of serious scholarship, or easily reduced to a footnote in the history of ideas.

The history of ideas is a history of mistakes.

More recently, Steven Webb has provided an incisive and nuanced account of the history of the idea in American Providence: A Nation with a Mission (see review, FT February).

On the other hand, Hartshorne's approach to the history of philosophy was less a history of traditions and persons than a history of ideas.

Through these accounts, Schmidt intends to give us a popular, social history of American atheism, one that tells stories of local, concrete fights over religion and the public sphere, rather than a grand history of ideas about belief and disbelief.

For me, what's interesting is the history of ideas, what Christianity did.

One problem is that, among academics in what Peter Berger calls the global faculty club, assumptions about secularisation are driven by the intellectual history of ideas, with slight attention being paid to what persists in being the real world.

Like one of its predecessor volumes (Against the Current, 1979), this collection includes essays in the history of ideas.

Far from the imposition of an alien rationalism, such a demand for clarity and comprehensiveness is therefore a necessary desideratum of any interpretive theory, whether in epistemology or in the history of ideas.17 Recognition of the need for such comprehensive and mutually exclusive concepts need not restrict, but can rather uncover possible, if perhaps neglected schemes for both historical and constructive presentation.

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin Alfred A. Knopf, 277 pages, $ 22 Henry Hardy, the editor of this hook, describes it as «in effect the fifth of four volumes» of Isaiah Berlin's collected essays.

The history of the idea of revelation in Christian theology is long and complex, and it is not the purpose of a systematic theology of revelation simply to reiterate this chronicle.

The appeal to individual experience seeks to produce agreement that, «This account properly describes my experience (and that of anyone like me in the relevant respect),» the appeal to the history of ideas in its broadest form to elicit the claim that, «This describes everyone's experience.»

The first general type of argument intended to lend credibility to such a description we can call the appeal to experience which, in turn, can comprise an appeal either to individual experience or to communal experience (or to what we may equally well call the history of ideas).

A second type of appeal to the evidence of experience is the appeal to communal experience or to the history of ideas.

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin Alfred A. Knopf, 277 pages, $ 22

I particularly like the study of the history of ideas for bringing about shifts in perspective in that you realise how relative and partial current views can be.

At first glance, no marriage in the history of ideas would seem more unlikely to succeed as an artificial union of opposites («arranged,» as it were, by Yenta the village matchmaker) than that between Jewish ethics and natural law.

Palmer calls this scheme «objectivism,» and he describes it not so much in terms of a history of ideas or a group of thinkers as in terms of a set of pedagogical practices that characterize the contemporary academy.

Although this classification may be justified and of no great import when limited to the level of the history of ideas, it becomes the crucial issue of the person of Jesus when one recognizes, as does Bultmann in the preface to his Jesus and the Word, that it is in the Paessage that one encounters existentially the intention, the understanding of existence constituting the self, and thus the person.

Barth's basic position was that the «theme of theology» is «God's revelation», rather than any given concepts in the history of ideas.

This is not to say that faith hangs upon the question in the history of ideas as to whether Jesus appropriated any specific title available in his culture, or whether he ever spoke as does the kerygma in terms of his death and resurrection.

BJA — Victor A. Lowe, «The Influence of Bergson, James and Alexander on Whitehead,» Journal of the History of Ideas, 10 (1949), 267 - 96.

Robert Gahl, on the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross; Prof. Riccardo Pozzo, the Director of the Rome - based, Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee [Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas]; and Prof. Jean - Paul Coujou, of the L'Insitut Catholique de Toulouse, the principal translator of Suárez's metaphysical and legal writings from Latin into French.

Kramer has a gift for writing about the history of ideas.

I think the history of ideas is easily as peculiar as anything that exists on our planet, that its causalities are altogether whimsical.

It is not remarkable, therefore, that this myth has been so durable throughout our history, including the history of ideas.

In terms of the concerns emphasized in Section I, they are affected by gender, race, social location, and a particular history of ideas.

They take their cues from real problems in the real church and the real world, rather than from a history of ideas.

Fr Pereiro's interest is chiefly, it appears, in the Oxford Movement as an episode in the history of ideas rather than in the history of religion, and as such he seems to see it as culminating, through the growth of Newman's ideas about ethos, in the philosophy of The Grammar of Assent, rather than in the conversion of numerous Anglicans to Rome.

It is remarkable how complementary and convergent are the results obtained in two such apparently disparate areas — child psychology and history of ideas.

I like to quote this because I regard it as one of the most insightful and also most neglected remarks concerning the history of ideas.

I would like to conclude this digression into the history of ideas with the following words which Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1888: