Sentences with phrase «most philosophers ever»

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The larger problem that I have with this type of argument is that the evidentiary issues re: God have been very thoroughly argued out by 2500 years of philosophers, some of whom must have been the most intelligent people ever to occupy the Earth.

I ask you now not to forget this notion; for although most philosophers seem either to forget it or to disdain it too much ever to mention it, I believe that we shall have to admit it ourselves in the end as containing an element of truth.

«He was perhaps the most saintly philosopher I have ever known,» he said, «gentle, kind, honest, almost childlike.

Merleau - Ponty, toward the end of his life, read a French translation of The Function of Reason (FR) and declared Whitehead to be one of the most original and creative philosophers he had ever read.

We put these questions to Professor Rae Langton — award - winning philosopher and the world's «fourth most influential woman thinker» — and discuss whether free speech can ever be reconciled with a need to suppress hateful voices.

It's too smart for its own good, presenting a superhero origin story without allowing any of its characters to ever once even whisper the word (a lot like «The Walking Dead» making everyone look like assholes by avoiding the term «zombie») and spending too much time letting its teen titans drop names like Schopenhauer before making it clear that the character who most embraces the philosopher's theories of aesthetics and self - abnegation ultimately takes up the mantle of one of Schopenhauer's offshoots, Nietzsche.