Sentences with phrase «old philosopher»

The title of the exhibition, chosen by Demester, refers to the world of old philosophers, in which admitting that one knows nothing was a sign of the highest virtue.

Stevens was a student of Santayana and titled the poem, «To An Old Philosopher in Rome.»

But to be able to talk about events, you have got to qualify them by what older philosophers would have called «universals» and Whitehead calls «objects.»

Is it conceivable that the 92 - year - old philosopher Bertrand Russell is putting the moves on his 22 - year - old neighbor, the budding actress Sarah Miles?

There, on «the threshold of heaven,» as the English critic Lucy Beckett has suggested, the old philosopher may at last have identified poetic beauty not as a creative substitute for divine revelation, but as an instance of «our participation in truth.»

A pragmatic or instinctive understanding that there is a right and a wrong life for man, which some of the old philosophers called Natural Law?

When we place Whitehead in a new relationship with the postmodern world view we realize that what some might claim to be the arcane ravings of an old philosopher actually prophesy the coming of a new age.

Before us stands Empedocles, the old philosopher of Agrigentum, who has ever and again found admiring disciples up to the present time: the prophetic thinker and seer, the leader of those pious ones, whose heart longs for the redemption — whom Hoelderlin, a man very close to the Greeks, has given to us anew.

His thirteenth work of fiction begins with the fateful liaison between the lovely jinn and the old philosopher, which, thanks to Dunia's supernatural fertility, produces the first generation of an undetected tribe of descendants who look and feel human but who lack earlobes and possess secret jinn powers.