Sentences with phrase «influence most philosophers»

In our age of academic specialization this realization of comparative importance does not influence most philosophers and theologians to broaden their study.

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Philosophers who influenced Hartshorne the most shared this view.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

And what of Nietzsche, the philosopher who, with the exception of Plato and Rousseau, most influenced Bloom as teacher and thinker?

When George W. Bush was asked which political philosopher had most influenced him in a debate before the 2000 Iowa caucus, he responded «Jesus.»

Perhaps the three most influential philosophers of Judaism in the twentieth century are the neo «Kantian Hermann Cohen, the existentialist Martin Buber, and the recent hero of postmodern thought Emmanuel Levinas, whose influence as Jews on secular thought is rivalled only by that of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky.

Key examples from the artist's most iconic neon series will be on view, including elements from Kosuth's renowned «Freud» series (1981 - 1989), in which the artist puts the psychoanalyst's texts regarding unconscious functioning meaningfully into play using wall pieces and installations, and from his acclaimed «Wittgenstein» series (1989 - 1993), which illustrate the fervent influence of the philosopher on Kosuth's foundation of thinking, and belief that art should ask questions about itself, as a language engaged in the production of meaning.

The one that has most influenced the course of Western science is probably the doctrine of atomism, advocated by Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus, and other Greek philosophers.