Sentences with phrase «just as philosophers»

We remember that the character Socrates is abstracted from the historical Socrates, the real guy, just as the philosopher - king, in his wisdom, is abstracted from the character Socrates.

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For just this reason Marx saw Bentham as a philosopher with the mind of a small shopkeeper.»

Unluckily just when scientists are opening their minds to a nondeterministic view of cosmic order many philosophers, here and in England, are still playing the old game (as old as ancient stoicism) of trying to reconcile human freedom with strict causal determination of all events.

In this article Childress formulated just war theory in terms of the logic of prima facie duties as defined by the philosopher W. D. Ross.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

The Christian philosopher can not as a philosopher speak of the unique act of God in Jesus Christ, just as he can say nothing of particular events in any area, but he can and should so structure his ideas as to allow for such unique acts and particular events.

Just as there are big differences between the philosophers» «God» and God, I claim there is a huge gap between Mr. Dembski's «machine» and real machines.

Just as the attitude of the Sufis toward the religious teachings of Islam was a revolt against the jurists who stifled the true spirit of religion in order to preserve its form, their attitude toward God was also a revolt directed against the theologians and the philosophers.

Like Francisco J. Ayala, who is a renowned biologist and philosopher, a staunch defender of evolution, as well as a critic of creationism and ID, but since he is the 2010 Templeton Prize winner, they ridicule him just like they would ridicule any creationist freak.

Or better yet, don't believe in the Bible just as Albert Einstein, the greatest and smartest scientist and philosopher in our world history, would tell you.

All of the major German philosophers the time responded to the French Revolution as just such a beginning, and the French Revolution is the deepest historical ground of German Idealism, thereby giving it an historical actuality found nowhere else in the world of philosophy.

Rabbi Sacks, the author of eighteen books and a philosopher of note, responded (I paraphrase) that the universe can not provide its own meaning, just as a logical system can not prove its own premises (according to the Gödel incompleteness theorem).

If Christianity is skittish at best about familial nobility and not just dignity, as a pridefully creative project of life - defining meaning, is it not remarkable that the most venomous and blatant of the anti-Christian philosophers is so circumspect and muted on the matter?

Just as Margaret Fuller, at the risk of grandiosity, once decided to «accept the universe,» process theologians and philosophers have decided, with the same risk, to «accept history;» When informed of Fuller's decision, Thomas Carlyle said, «By God!

But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and won the consideration of all who now had turned their attention to him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of the philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life in future upon that of Apollonius.

Should we not expect that if Whitehead is indeed a great speculative philosopher that he would be just as falsely interpreted by his Christian spokesmen as were Plato, Aristotle, and Hegel by theirs?

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.

Philosophers as talented and diverse as Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, J.P. Moreland, Dallas Willard, Peter Kreeft, and William Lane Craig (to name just a few) have all paid tribute to C.S. Lewis's brilliance as a writer and thinker.

I like what the philosopher Slavoj Žižek says: «As I always repeat, what we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.»

Long ago in the ancient timeperiods of Greek and Roman civilizations, there were these Theological Philosophers who made stories as to just exactly what was the smallest things and their roles in the meanings of Life.

Just as above we made the contrast between the failure to achieve social harmony while people gained knowledge of natural harmony; we must now go a step further in recognizing that Whitehead's Harmony is an ideal as well as a factor of the actual world, though this contrast is not as sharp in Whitehead as in many philosophers.

would be the perfect job for him as he is a football teacher and philosopher of the beautiful game just image the football world with wenger in charge of the big picture.

What's more, if we regard consciousness as an emergent property of a complex system, we can not take the position that it is just another attribute (along with «digestion and lactation,» to quote philosopher John Searle).

«The truly odd thing is that the laws of physics, which surely ought to be responsible for what we see in the world, can work just as well both forwards and backwards in time,» says Dean Rickles, a philosopher of science at the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

This focus may, like myself, leave some viewers disappointed that the marvellous work of Waking Life gets very little discussion yet it's probably his most thought provoking film and shadows the fact that, to begin with, Linklater was a philosopher that just happened to choose celluloid as the medium in which to express himself.

As, the philosopher John Dewey once admonished, «what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that the community must want for all its children» — not just its white and wealthy ones.

And then in 1865, just as Darwin was completing the final amendments to the fourth edition of Origin, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle stepped out of the shadows as a claimant.

It was the writings of Spanish novelist Javier Marías, one of Redonda's more recent sovereigns, and Marías's own eclectic choice of courtiers (including film director Pedro Almodóvar and English novelist AS Byatt) that inspired Chambers with his imaginary court of 101 different ethnicities, cultural affiliations (carefully indicated by clothing and hairstyles) and professions - not just poets, philosophers, artists and writers, but also patients, pharmacists, harlots and «bums».

Lynch's connection to subjects and landscapes, both in life and painting, was empathic: a flower or tree branch sings just as strongly as any bird; likewise a pre-Columbian vessel in spiritual communion with a Chinese philosopher's stone — and he listened acutely, transcribing their conversation so you could hear it too.

INHALE comes as just the first part of a bigger project that will continue as EXHALE at Liverpool's Cactus later this year, and as part of her exhibition at Project / Number, Jacobs made a publication featuring a discussion with philosopher and The Last Night writer Federico Campagna, done in collaboration with TripleOG.

Unfortunately, even though such an insulator would be as desirable as the Philosophers Stone, its existence is just as mythical.

It is just a silly politician posing as a philosopher.

The practice of hindcasting remains unscientific because it circumvents deduction and, as has been widely discussed by the great philosophers of our time (e.g. Popper), just because induction works in some cases does not prove that it works in all cases and does not make it an acceptable scientific method.

But as America's leading environmental philosopher, William McDonough, points out in his book, Cradle to Cradle, being less bad is not being good, it is still bad... just a little bit less so.

While the famous philosopher probably wasn't offering career advice, I'm going to make the stretch and say it's just as applicable in this arena.