Sentences with phrase «living philosopher»

It seemed to Dr. Pennington that Whitehead had been speaking more profoundly to the condition of our life than any other living philosopher.

The pattern is to have an intellectual autobiography, followed by critical essays and responses by the living philosopher, as well as a bibliography.

Barth, Derrida, and the Language of Theology By Graham Ward Cambridge University Press, 258 pages, $ 54.95 The Gift of Death By Jacques Derrida, Translated by David Willis University of Chicago Press, 115 pages, $ 18.95 Though Jacques Derrida is perhaps France's best - known living philosopher,....

If you want to talk to a living philosopher who gives a crap you have to accept that the field only puts its second or third tier people on this kind of thing.

Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying, «We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another — doubtless very different — St. Benedict.»

8 of The Library of Living Philosophers.

Paul Arthur Schilpp, The Library of Living Philosophers 13.

And yet he has admitted over the years, and continues to admit in the Library of Living Philosophers volume (PCH), that there is one issue on...

PCH H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr, «Natural Theology and Bioethics,» The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne Library of Living Philosophers Volume XX, Edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn.

The bibliography in the Library of Living Philosophers volume stops in 1991 and lists 482 philosophical articles and reviews (Hahn 735 - 64).

The dedication of the twentieth volume of the Library of Living Philosophers (LLP) to Hartshorne's philosophy is itself a sign of his importance.

Library of Living Philosophers, Volume XX.

His seminal contribution to process philosophy is commemorated in the twentieth volume of The Library of Living Philosophers, which is devoted to his thought (Hahn 1990).

For his theory of becoming Whitehead appealed to Plato, particularly to Taylor's interpretation of Plato: cf. PR 67 - 70; also his essay, «Immortality,» first appearing in The Library of Living Philosophers III (ed.

by Paul Arthur Schilpp, The Library of Living Philosophers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1941), pp. 545 - 46.

MG — «Mathematics and the Good,» pages 666 - 81 in The Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed.

Evanston: Library of Living Philosophers (V. 7).

(The Library of Living Philosophers; 3).

Library of Living Philosophers (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1951], 698); the awareness of self - transcending interest (AI 285).

Towards the end of his life the philosopher Jacques Maritain took a closer look at the effects of the Council.

Today we are celebrating the publication of the twentieth volume of «The Library of Living Philosophers.»

And one of France's greatest living philosophers, Alain Badiou, is poised to publish In Praise of Love, in which he argues that online dating sites destroy our most cherished romantic ideal, namely love.

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The project is inspired by the ideas of real - life philosophers and artists such as William Blake and Joseph Beuys.

Not exact matches

But that's not the best way to look at hard choices, argues philosopher Ruth Chang in a thought - provoking recent TED talk in which she offers a liberating new framework for making life's toughest calls.

For evidence, look to the Greek philosophers, the wisdom literature from Asia and literature in general across the centuries designed to teach guiding the principles for life.

«This globetrotting novel follows the life of an awkward female «natural philosopher» born in 1800, providing a window into the development of science as a profession in the 19th century and dealing with the slings, arrows, and random events that mark all our lives.

Seneca, Roman statesman and philosopher, opined that, «The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.»

In his book The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, author Will Durant concluded:

In his book Love: A History, University College London philosopher Simon May is more skeptical, writing that, similar to Perel's reasoning, love has had to fill the vacuum of meaning - making left in the West with the «retreat of Christianity» from much of public life.

Michael Puett and Christine Gross - Loh are the authors of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

Thiel has supported the work of philosopher Nick Bostrom, who argues for weighing the value of the trillions of lives that will exist in the future in today's ethical calculations.

That's why some scientists and philosophers are praying that we don't discover even simple microbial life somewhere like Mars or Europa.

«A book that changed my life is one by Marcus Aurelius, who was an emperor of Rome for 19 years and a stoic philosopher.

In his life he was also an inventor, philosopher, architect, sculptor, engineer, scientist, astronomer, writer and mathematician, and all of that with little formal education behind him.

The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard observed that «life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.»

We find in St. Augustine the living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of course; but the God of the philosophers is not absent from his thought.

Dawkins is one of the preeminent living natural scientists... what in the would could be gained from an atheist natural scientist debating a theological philosopher?

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.

Pascal spoke of the divide between the «god of the philosophers» and the «living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,» and took the side of the latter.

This is somewhat surprising in light of the fact that one of the key texts prompting the renewal of narrative theology, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981), is seriously concerned with the narrative integrity of a given single life.

The social philosopher Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy wrote: «Man as an animal organism lives forward from birth toward death, but, as a soul who knows beforehand that he will die, he molds his life looking backward from the end.»

The ancients reverenced him: In Diogenes Laertius» Lives of Eminent Philosophers, only Zeno, Epicurus, and Plato garner more attention.

To find contentment, you must accept what ancient philosophers call the «tragic sense of life.»

What, for example, can the life of the fellow with the wool ties and Teutonic humor tell us about what was most vital and central to Hans - Georg Gadamer, the German philosopher who died almost two years ago, on March 14, 2002, at the remarkable age of 102.

Elsewhere, however (in the preface to Torat haAdam), Ramban is scathingly critical of philosophers who harden their hearts and deny the reality of suffering, and he is correspondingly attuned to the halakhic norms that mandate appropriate grief at the termination of human life.

Perhaps it is because the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers wanted to engage God only as a concept, and not as the God - man who lays a claim upon our lives.

The famous Rabbi Hillel was of Babylonian origin, whilst Philo, one of the greatest Jewish philosophers, lived in Alexandria.7 Many Jews lived at Antioch in Syria.

William of Ockham was a 14th century philosopher / theologian who said, «Essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem» whatever that means, and who argued that theology should be reasonable and logical whereas faith is a matter of faith and ought to show in your way of life.

The Colloquium is a group of Jewish and Christian theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and scholars that meets periodically to consider questions of morality, religion, and public life.