Sentences with phrase «philosophy as philosophers»

Moreover, scientists are generally as incompetent at philosophy as philosophers are at science.

Not exact matches

My philosophy department dismissed me as a futurist and the economists dismissed me as a philosopher (A little vindication: I have since had a few individuals contact me and apologize for dismissing me and in review they have found my premises and argumentation sound even if they still do not necessarily agree with my conclusions).

Nevertheless, the writings of philosophers on religious topics are better described as philosophy of religion.

Gabriel Marcel, the French «neo-Socratic» philosopher, has said, «The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Insofar as philosophers now attempt to reach final conclusions, they characteristically abandon the traditional questions of philosophy and limit themselves to much more specialized ones.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

Process thought developed in the evolutionary philosophies of the late nineteenth century, and has a kinship with the «emergent revolutionary» theorists.38 The process philosophers are interested not only in an evolutionary description of the cosmos, but in what happens to all the traditional metaphysical problems when time is seen as an ingredient of being itself.

It was such a nonmystical philosopher as Bertrand Russell who coined the term immortality of the past, «3 which Whitehead adopted and of which he made one of the cornerstones of his process philosophy.

They differ from those environmental philosophers who see environmental ethics as a subdiscipline of traditional philosophy.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

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.

Brightman was as intellectually honest as any philosopher I know of, and the following expression of his uncertainty seems to suggest that he knows Hartshorne has raised issues his philosophy can not handle:

For Heidegger, as perhaps for no other philosopher, the distinction between life and thought has meaning only if one perceives Heidegger's philosophy itself as self - confuting: So, the task is left to me, an outsider, to raise what may really be the quintessential Heideggerian question: the relation of his life to his thought.

His resignation from the Harvard philosophy department (and total retirement from university life) where he had graduated and taught from 1899 was the source of some distress to American philosophers who had regarded him as one of the leading figures in a distinctively American tradition,

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history ofPhilosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history ofphilosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

While I in no way wish to say that Daly's or Raymond's views need validation from a «dead, white male philosopher,» I do believe, first of all, that Whiteheadian philosophy will be enhanced by the incorporation of women's experience (inclusive of feminist philosophy as part of women's experience).

Those philosophers and theologians who have followed Martin Buber in the «I - Thou» philosophy have usually not seen that this dialectical attitude toward evil is inseparable from it as he understands it.

He believed, and acted as if he believed, that progress in philosophy is possible, if only philosophers honestly face each other's arguments and not simply try to defend their own «castle of ideas» (Auxier and Davies 62).

If, as I suggested in the last section, the obvious and oft - noted differences between Russell and Whitehead symbolize the current analytic - speculative split, then the kinds of similarities and (perhaps even more importantly) the areas of mutual influence, indebtedness, and philosophic enrichment to which Professor Kuntz rightly points can suggest to contemporary philosophers a neutral «dialogical territory» beyond the present, hostile philosophic «demilitarized zone,» which is no longer itself viable, interesting, or worthy of the vocation of philosophy.

All of the major German philosophers the time responded to the French Revolution as just such a beginning, and the French Revolution is the deepest historical ground of German Idealism, thereby giving it an historical actuality found nowhere else in the world of philosophy.

See A. H. Johnson's report, «Whitehead as Teacher and Philosopher,» Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1968 - 69), 373.

As a biologist I have long been immensely impressed by and beholden to Whitehead's philosophy of organism (Process and Reality), in that it seems to me that he is the first great philosopher who really took trouble to comprehend the biological developments of his time.

In particular, as the late Victor Lowe patiently and quietly maintained throughout his lifetime — and as Donald Sherburne has forcefully and convincingly demonstrated in his many writings — theism was not an essential component of Whitehead's thought, and the viability of process metaphysics does not stand or fall on the issue of theism alone (as the vast majority of process philosophers and opponents of process philosophy and its brands of philosophical theism stubbornly continue to maintain).

CH: It's not necessary to be a philosopher to be practical, in certain basic animal and human ways — and that is why the world got on for a long time without much of what we now think of as philosophy.

In their struggles with Christianity, the pagan philosophers of late antiquity presented Pythagoras as their answer to Jesus: here was a good and spiritual man whose knowledge and wisdom became foundational for all later philosophy.

Buridan was unusual in that he was a diocesan priest at a time when most academics were either Dominicans or Franciscans, and in that he remained in the Arts faculty as a philosopher when most intellectuals of his caliber saw philosophy as a stage on the way to a doctorate in theology.

Learning about Hindu philosophy and Western Idealist philosophers, such as Royce and Bosanquet, to whom my Indian Professor Dr. C. T. K. Chari introduced me, gave me an intellectual basis for a theology rooted in religious experience.

And in so far as imagination is fundamental to rational understanding, its systemic repression in western philosophy is another sign that the natural philosopher must be as deeply concerned with cultural analysis as with metaphysical analysis.

Students of seventeenth century British natural philosophy know that Locke was one of many in his day who saw their task as continuous with the efforts of «natural philosophers» — their scientific colleagues.

Secondly, though other process philosophers have been influential within Christian theology, in recent years Whiteheadian process philosophy has generated increasing interest and excitement as a philosophical basis for Christian thought.

As suggested in chapter one, Hartshorne has, in an era of widespread distrust or hostility on the part of philosophers toward metaphysics, remained unabashed in his commitment to metaphysics as the central concern of philosophAs suggested in chapter one, Hartshorne has, in an era of widespread distrust or hostility on the part of philosophers toward metaphysics, remained unabashed in his commitment to metaphysics as the central concern of philosophas the central concern of philosophy.

A wide array of modern minds have thought the same: Hegel lamented that philosophy is no longer «practiced as a private art, as it was by the Greeks,» Heidegger called for a return to the Greek grammar of being, and Kant claimed that «the ancient Greek philosophers remained more faithful to the Idea of the philosopher than their modern counterparts have done.»

Some philosophers who apply reductionism to philosophy call themselves physicalists, because they regard physics as dealing with things at their most reduced level and they wish to follow suit.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

His monumental achievement, in such epic works as the Summa Contra Gentiles and the Summa Theologiae, was to marry the wisdom of a millennium of Christian philosophy and theology to the «new philosophy» of Aristotle that had been rediscovered in Europe (largely through the mediation of Arabic philosophers) in the early thirteenth century.

It may seem to reduce philosophy to an essentially reconstructive, rather than creative, labor; and certainly it implies that philosophers like Kant, who see themselves as harbingers of one or another new dawn, are deluded about their proper roles.

As a philosopher he was an ardent Hegelian, and from his arrival he exercised for three semesters the traditional right of a theological Repetent to lecture on philosophy, lecturing enthusiastically and successfully as an apostle of HegeAs a philosopher he was an ardent Hegelian, and from his arrival he exercised for three semesters the traditional right of a theological Repetent to lecture on philosophy, lecturing enthusiastically and successfully as an apostle of Hegeas an apostle of Hegel.

Usually some one philosopher such as Aristotle is taken as having shown once and for all what philosophy in its pure form must conclude.

Since there is such a kind of «Christian philosophy» sometimes called a «Christian natural philosophy,» we need to hear the affirmative as well as the negative side.2 It is important to present the problem dialectically so that a confrontation can help us recognize the presuppositions of what it is to be «Christian,» to be a «philosopher,» to be a «Christian philosopher.»

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.

Described by New Statesman as the Conservative Party's «philosopher - king», Blond made a name for himself with his «Red Toryism» thesis, having previously enjoyed a quiet existence as a theology and philosophy lecturer.

Sometimes Midgley's own remarks about the character of contemporary professional philosophy seem to lend weight to the claims of those like biologist E. O. Wilson, who regard philosophers as unhelpful amateurs (as if philosophers habitually knew nothing except what fellow philosophers had written).

A number of physicists, including Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss, have angered philosophers by describing philosophy as useless.

I studied Philosophy at University and then went straight to Wall Street (as every philosopher does, no?).

Each year, all students take an ethical philosophy class in which they discuss the school's core values and how these values are addressed in the writings of such philosophers as Aristotle and Rousseau.

John Dewey, an educator, psychologist and philosopher in the early 20th century who was one of many innovators during the progressive movement in education promoted this philosophy of experience and education - later coined as experiential education.

Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world.

The experience led Chambers to perceptual realism, which was as much a philosophy, rooted in Catholic doctrine and the writing of the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau - Ponty, as it was a style of painting; and it marked a radical departure from his previous work, which cut a wide swath across a variety of genres.

Printmaking was an integral part of Finlay's career as a philosopher, sculptor and poet, and his lifelong creative relationship with language, politics, philosophy and mythology is highlighted in his printed works, which were often made in collaboration with other artists.

Philip Johnson studied at Harvard University as an undergraduate, where he focused on history and philosophy, particularly the work of the Pre-Socratic philosophers.