Sentences with phrase «of classical philosophers»

She was praised by Voltaire as the equal of the greatest of classical philosophers; she was condemned by her enemies, mostly foreign, as «the Messalina of the north.»

In one popular study of the problem of God today, John A. T. Robinson questions the relevance of a theism that would think of God as a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind.4 The same issue is raised by Harvey Cox, who writes: The willingness of the classical philosophers to allow the God of the Bible to be blurred into Plato's Idea of the Good or Aristotle's Prime Mover was fatal.

«Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists» Visions» Getty Villa 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles OPENS: April 18 The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated and reinstalled Getty Villa, this group show gathers contemporary artworks that engage with the teachings and concepts of the classical philosopher.

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As it happens, the Times Literary Supplement gave the book to the philosopher Anthony Kenny to review, perhaps because he could never be accused of any parti pris in this debate, since he has in the past leveled his own severe criticisms against classical Christian theism for relying on an «outdated Aristotelian cosmology.»

Science doesn't support the classical, contra - causal notion of free will and philosophers have also abandoned it in droves, preferring a deterministic notion of free will called compatibilism.

It was this primitive understanding of the nature of man which was given clear and classical exposition in the writings of the Greek philosopher Plato (427 - 347 BC.)

On the one hand, process philosophers have made important advances under the inspiration of the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, while on the other a group of thinkers has pursued the developmental implications of the classical Christian doctrine of God as Trinity.1 Normally these two discussions proceed with little cognizance of or interaction with one another.

Whitehead, another mathematician - physicist - philosopher, had a similar view Thus our theological scheme is no longer as seriously at odds with science or the philosophy of science as it was in the days of classical or Newtonian physics.

Adam Smith, the great moral philosopher and founder of classical economics, tells us that the market requires a moral - legal foundation.

In his article «Analysis and Cultural Lag in Philosophy» (1), Hartshorne notes that Whitehead is one of few modem philosophers, particularly in the Anglo - Saxon tradition, who have taken seriously and even adopted many tenets of classical philosophy.

Classical Greek philosophers, about 500 BC, formalized the concept of «Destiny» through stories anthropomorphizing the idea of «fate».

In this deformed classical context, the theoria of the philosopher is a conceptual legitimation of imperial domination by the ruling elites and the historical victors.

The Christians, in their way, agree with the classical philosophers that the glory that was Rome is nothing in light of eternity — although by eternity they mean the life beyond death that the personal God makes possible for each particular person.

The philosopher Leo Strauss said that the world — meaning cosmos or nature — is the home of the human mind, but even real guy philosophers (and in the classical world there was no difference between philosophers and scientists) are more than minds.

But it is strange and striking how little else Nietzsche has to say out loud about family, because the classical or pagan pursuit of what it means for a family to be great is perhaps the most significant and enduring example of noble values that a philosopher of noble values could hope to find.

However, I think that a great many classical as well as contemporary theologians and philosophers have supposed that if God is omnipotent, it is within his power to completely determine each of the activities of all other beings.

Enlightenment philosophers wanted to recover the habits of reason and learning they thought were embodied in ancient Classical culture.

In the eyes of a philosopher, time has acquired in classical physics a strangely ambiguous character.

Forsythe reviews the thought on the classical virtue of prudence, «against the backdrop of the thought of Greek, Roman, and Stoic philosophers like Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas.»

The study will thus serve to support and illustrate the claim that Whitehead is a «traditional» philosopher — one aware of classical metaphysical problems, critically yet seriously willing to entertain them as basic to intellectual inquiry.

Despite modern objections, the classical Christian doctrine of God has been shaped by Greek thought and particularly by the Hellenistic philosopher, Plotinus (c.205 - 270cE).

This problem of relativism disquieted the Greek mind, and in the classical age the philosophers began to search for deeper and more rational foundations of ethics.

As the true power and limitations of chemistry came into focus, interest in the Philosophers» Stone simply faded away, much as the belief in the classical Four Elements had faded away centuries before.

But most of the Classical ancient philosophers would disagree.

TV hypnotist Derren Brown turns philosopher with this in - depth study of classical wisdom and how it applies today.

Of profound interest to both the physicist and the philosopher is a foundational question of quantum theory: how and why does our familiar experience of a «classical» Newtonian world emerge from a limitless set of possible possibilitieOf profound interest to both the physicist and the philosopher is a foundational question of quantum theory: how and why does our familiar experience of a «classical» Newtonian world emerge from a limitless set of possible possibilitieof quantum theory: how and why does our familiar experience of a «classical» Newtonian world emerge from a limitless set of possible possibilitieof a «classical» Newtonian world emerge from a limitless set of possible possibilitieof possible possibilities?

Quoting classical Greek thinkers like Epicurus on the good of pursuing happiness, Hunter also cites ornithologist, naturalist, and philosopher Alexander Skutch in his book Moral Foundations: