Or consider the explanations for religious belief proposed by evolutionary psychologists, now recognised by most
philosophers of biology as involving more theoretical assumptions than empirical evidence.
He works from the writings of
philosophers who take human perception as their starting point.
Also, they do not lose status when they make these efforts in the same way
as philosophers do.
This is the question posed
by philosophers who believe all suffering should be terminated.
What he meant by that, and what many
Greek philosophers believed in general, is that you can't make a judgment about a person's life until the whole story is complete.
Few departments have slots
for philosophers as such, that is, for persons doing fresh and original thinking.
In our time, the objections to natural theology have come not only
from philosophers but also from theologians.
Nevertheless, these critiques are powerful and varied, and they have stronger existential and practical intentions than is usual
with philosophers.
What sense, if any, could there be in speaking, as
process philosophers do, of the essence of experience?
This agreement has come not merely from the judgment of the rank and file, but even more strikingly from our
moral philosophers who have given their lives to critical inquiry.
As a matter of fact, a generation and more ago, experiments along this line were made by several prominent
American philosophers of religion.
The choice that we have to make is not between scientific freedom and science governed by a wise group of
philosopher kings.
For
ancient philosophers, the dignity of contemplation lay in its fulfillment of our longing for truth.
I do not know any
other philosopher who has defined religion exclusively with that question.
The ancient Greek
philosophers didn't need psychology or statistics to see the trap.
They were
not philosophers, constructing a speculative theory from their observation of events.
The first theme, the diverse functions of language, reflects a change in outlook
among philosophers which was already under way in the 1950's.
Since we by nature must seek out mystery and live with
what philosophers call a sense of wonder, the.
Most philosophers of science provide little help to scientists themselves as they struggle to make sense of the strange phenomena they encounter.
There is little doubt the
modern philosophers considered the teachings of the religious bodies untrue.
Catholic philosophers and theologians have been debating whether complying with the mandate would be morally acceptable.
No Greek or
Jewish philosopher or Roman legislator had spoken to women, children, and slaves directly like this.
Many
contemporary philosophers would refuse to read further, once they come upon the claim that what we see are mere colored shapes.
If you want to talk to a
living philosopher who gives a crap you have to accept that the field only puts its second or third tier people on this kind of thing.
He embarked on a spiritual and philosophical quest that took him around the planet while he explored the answers the various world religions and most
famous philosophers had to offer.
But ancient
Chinese philosophers would say there's a danger in seeking to be true to yourself in order to live an authentic life.
How
philosophers think about religion may well depend largely on how they have encountered it in childhood and youth.
This has
led philosophers concerned for clear and distinct ideas to treat these sense data as primary.
For a long time, although
philosophers found them questionable, there seemed to be no scientific reason to doubt them.
Some
legal philosophers say that liberalism implies the exclusion of religious considerations from public life.
The notable legal
philosopher turns his keen analytical powers to questions of Scripture.