De Lubac traces the searchings
of ancient thinkers whose restless questioning revealed a sense of divine calling but without the means of interpreting the signs pointing to it.
Which is appropriate, after all, since most
of the ancient thinkers who have inspired her work certainly understood that our quest for eudaimonia is profoundly dependent upon the social order in which we live and think.
Not exact matches
I've rounded out the faith traditions
of my younger years with
ancient and new
thinkers.
It was used by Greek literary scholars in the
ancient world to interpret the Iliad and Odyssey
of Homer, and it was employed by Jewish
thinkers — for example, Philo
of Alexandria — to interpret the Pentateuch.
After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism
of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic
thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations
of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in
ancient and medieval sources.
The unworldly
thinker is a figure
of ancient legend: Socrates himself,
of course, losing himself in thought at the threshold
of a dinner party, as described in Plato's Symposium; or Thales, who reportedly fell into a well from looking at the stars; or Diogenes the Cynic, whose only request to Alexander the Great upon meeting him was that he get out
of his sunlight.
We may not be happy with the particular fashion in which this conviction was expressed in the several classical formulations; we may seek for and hope to find a way
of stating this conviction which does not depend upon the philosophy
of ancient Greek
thinkers.
The most
ancient of the specifically «process»
thinkers is probably Heraclitus.
@ Doug — We have more technical knowledge for sure, but yes, I'd say that many
of the
ancients were MUCH better
thinkers than most
of us today.
All our best achievements, all our highest hopes and aspirations, all that the mind and soul
of man has attained or even dreamed, this
ancient thinker asserts, is in accord with the deepest nature
of things.
Here, Paul, is extraordinarily important, for he is our first purely apocalyptic
thinker, and so far as we now know the first
ancient thinker fully to draw forth the subject
of consciousness, an «I» or subject which he could know as a dichotomous subject, a subject wholly divided or doubled between an old «I»
of «flesh» (sarx) and a new «I»
of Spirit (pneuma).
The
ancient Christian
thinker Irenaeus
of Lyons once said that «the glory
of God is man fully alive.»
Christian
thinkers of the late second century followed in the path
of those
ancient philosophers for whom «change was the ontological scandal.»
Far too frequently an appeal is made to some biblical passage or series
of passages, or to
ancient Christian
thinkers, as if this would readily settle whatever question is under discussion.
Such a time was the thirteenth century when there arrived at the newly emerging universities
of Europe some
of the teaching
of the
ancient Greek
thinkers, Aristotle in particular.
Many
ancient thinkers conceived
of the supreme God as far removed from the material world and too pure to have anything directly to do with it.
The alienation
of the
thinker from society is an
ancient and a universal theme; perhaps its modern variant is the alienation
of thought from society.
We pulled together 20 ideas — articulated by everyone from contemporary leaders and culture - makers to
ancient thinkers and timeless scriptures — that will not only help you navigate the challenges
of dealing with money, but can also change your view
of it.
Supernatural intervention was much less a problem for
ancient thinkers than it has become for us, with our conception
of the orderly processes
of nature; for the race, as for the individual, «heaven lies about us in our infancy.»
Thus, for example, where modern discussions
of friendship might emphasize the importance
of «self - disclosure as the basis for intimacy and trust between friends,»
ancient thinkers simply did not value self - disclosure.
If, on occasion, Konstan seems to press this argument too far, bypassing a little too quickly the sense one sometimes gets that classical
thinkers did have tendencies to ground friendship in utility, his argument nonetheless makes a strong case for a significant degree
of overlap between
ancient and modern views
of friendship.
And by the way, it was a good year for science because that was also the year that Vesalius publishes his influential book on human anatomy, correcting some
of the mistakes
of the
ancient Greek
thinkers, which actually is what Copernicus was doing, too.
Marchant's account
of the deciphering
of this startlingly advanced machine — the world's first computer — paints a vivid portrait
of both modern code breakers and the wildly creative
thinkers of ancient Greece.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, it became an «intellectual fad,» he said, for
thinkers to cite
ancient Greek and Roman sources rather than scientists
of the Middle Ages.
Without muddying the
ancient thinker's herculean intellect, his understanding
of the brain was a bit off par.
«The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man without trials», the
ancient thinker Confucius once wrote
of adversity.
This exciting exhibition will see an unprecedented intervention
of the Parthenon galleries, where a selection
of Rodin's work - including his iconic sculptures The
Thinker and The Kiss - will be shown alongside the
ancient Greek sculptures which inspired them.
But for Maria Brito, the similarities became apparent after her research into the reasons why Classical Greece became such a reference point for Western civilisation: «
Ancient Greece was, in many ways, similar to what New York is nowadays: an art - centric place filled with curious
thinkers, creative artists, and centres for cultural advancement propelled by a cosmopolitan view
of the world.»
This also seems true
of your own work: one
of the many ways that all ages are contemporaneous in your new book is that
ancient thinkers coexist with modern painters — a quote from Mark Rothko, the homage to Agnes Martin.
, with the Marianne Boesky Gallery, she pays homage to the inventive nature
of renowned
ancient Islamic mystic -
thinkers, explores historicity and temporality through medium and color, and provides a totemic symbol for hope and protection, perhaps inspired by the future
of her native country, Syria, amid the backdrop
of her adopted American landscape.
Analogies between painting and music had long been common; many
thinkers had attempted to codify the supposed expressiveness
of colours, lines, and shapes; and more than one fairly
ancient sketch might compete for the honour
of being called the first abstract picture.