Sentences with phrase «many as the philosopher»

How did this teenage skate obsessive end up with a career as a philosopher?

Aurelius was one of the great emperors of Rome, known to many as the Philosopher King.

My philosophy department dismissed me as a futurist and the economists dismissed me as a philosopher (A little vindication: I have since had a few individuals contact me and apologize for dismissing me and in review they have found my premises and argumentation sound even if they still do not necessarily agree with my conclusions).

As philosopher Jason Brennan points out, even libertarians — and libertarians are, shall we say, fond of property rights — do not regard property rights as absolute.

We do not choose the members of our judiciary because of their eminence as philosophers or their insight as moralists.

As a philosopher he lacks the hard clinicality of English philosophers of his generation.»

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

As the philosopher Krishnamurti suggested, «There are no distractions.»

As the philosopher Roger Scruton puts it, «A society based on agape [selfless love] alone is all very well, but it will not reproduce itself: nor will it produce the crucial relation — that between parent and child — which is the basis on which we can begin to understand our relation to God.

Part of Maritain's appeal as a philosopher of art stems from his intimate contact with the creative atmosphere of early - twentieth - century France.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.

Gadamer was telling us about the ever - present communication of Being» and he was doing it as a philosopher, for he was neither a theologian nor even a Christian.

«It has always been my practice,» says Schweitzer, «not to say anything when speaking as a philosopher that goes beyond the absolutely logical exercise of thought.

However, as a philosopher of science his ideas bear a remarkable resemblance to those expounded by Fr Holloway.

Apart from the problems with the idea of «fixed probabilities», one might think that Papineau's readiness to surrender to the physicists the last word on human thinking imperils his employment as a philosopher.

Insofar as philosophers now attempt to reach final conclusions, they characteristically abandon the traditional questions of philosophy and limit themselves to much more specialized ones.

As the philosopher John Stuart Mills put it:

He certainly is aware of it, as the philosophers themselves testify.

For example, only we are moral beings: As the philosopher Hans Jonas put it, «an «ought to» can issue only from man and is alien to everything outside him.»

As philosophers repeatedly insist, we have no possibility of achieving a «God's eye view» or a «view from nowhere.»

It apparently does not mean that theology must begin with a theory of the essence of God as a philosopher would.

They are not stated systematically or in a developing logical sequence, as a philosopher might state them, but over and over again they appear — in aphorism, parable, simile, striking hyperbole, in words of commendation or rebuke or in Jesus» own recorded deeds.

If concrescence is in fact temporal as some philosophers maintain, its temporality must involve both the A-series and the B - series characteristics; genetic time can not be A-series time without entailing events ordered or orderable in terms of B - series time.

It was this quest for factual certainty that prompted Aristotle in the fourth century before Christ to become, for his day, a great scientist as well as philosopher.

Brightman was as intellectually honest as any philosopher I know of, and the following expression of his uncertainty seems to suggest that he knows Hartshorne has raised issues his philosophy can not handle:

His ideas swept away the prejudices of dogmatic philosophical tradition and demanded an accounting of the inner conscious life and the universe itself, as we find it, not as philosophers have believed it ought to be or must be.

As a philosopher, St. Thomas Aquinas is both overvalued and undervalued.

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.

So Wojtyla, as a philosopher and a theologian, takes upon himself, in his guidebook to the Council, the task of thematizing the inside of being a Christian.

There is, of course, an astounding paradox to the human being which the word unique records, and unsophisticated folk as well as philosophers know that the paradox is real — that is, ontological.

As philosophers and in noetic terms these Americans seized the opportunity to seek the divine in a «freedom» that exists from the psyche of being to the horizon of Divine mystery.

I am thus all the more frustrated by his disclaimer that as a philosopher he has nothing relevant to say about education.

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.

As the philosopher Richard Rorty noted after 9/11, you can not declare war against a method of action.

In America, an equally suitable representative is Alexander Meiklejohn, whose brilliant career as a philosopher and public servant entitles his words to respect.

One of the patron saints of this particular community of Dutch Calvinists is Abraham Kuyper, who died in 1920 after a career as a philosopher - theologian, founder of the Free University of Amsterdam, and prime minister of the Netherlands.

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.

For it is not true, as the philosophers explain, that necessity is a unity of possibility and actuality; no, actuality is a unity of possibility and necessity.

The context of this quotation is Whitehead's acknowledgment of Leibniz as a philosopher of organism.

Indeed, they make use of the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who in this matter wrongly adhered to the view held by Aristotle, who was a zoologist as well as a philosopher.

In his long career as a philosopher at the University of Southern California, he earned a reputation for being perhaps the foremost scholar on Edmund Husserl, whose direct realism argues, counter to the constructivism of Immanuel Kant, that there is indeed an objective reality that is at least partially knowable via the mind.

as the philosophers of the western enlightenment say: why not believe in God?

When the same scientists speak about God, they are no longer speaking as a scientist but as a philosopher, a theologian.

That image of the philosopher - king's perfect freedom as philosopher and as king is the tyrant's dream of perfect freedom from who he is by nature.

This becomes particularly clear when one takes account of certain basic presuppositions that are now widely shared by theologians as well as philosophers.

No one knows this as well as the philosopher.

As the philosopher Raymond Tallis points out, a clock can tell us the time, but that doesn't mean the clock «knows» what time it is.

This meant that, as a philosopher and theologian, I should study the system of thought that was most important and effective in shaping the policies that governed national and international affairs.

As the philosopher Yogi Berra said, «A man must have a lot of boy in him to catch both ends of a doubleheader.»

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.