Sentences with phrase «speaking as a philosopher»

«It has always been my practice,» says Schweitzer, «not to say anything when speaking as a philosopher that goes beyond the absolutely logical exercise of thought.

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How will you grasp what Gadamer is saying if you are resolutely unprepared (as most philosophers are) to acknowledge the ontological mystery of a Being that speaks directly to us» that is, to our troubles, our innermost issues of identity and value?

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

What sense, if any, could there be in speaking, as process philosophers do, of the essence of experience?

To suggest, after all, that philosophers could speak the truth insofar as they «borrowed from Moses» is hardly the high «water mark of Christian tolerance in any century.

(The dipolar understanding of God has been brilliantly and thoroughly expounded by Hartshorne in such books as Man's Vision of God, The Divine Relativity, and Philosophers Speak of God.)

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.

Pozas was speaking as an advocate for the Great Ape Project (GAP), the brainchild of Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal - rights philosopher Paola Cavalieri.

S. Paul Schilling, the theologian who introduced many of us in the English - speaking world to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch, reminds us in a sensitive meditation that Bloch speaks of «humanity as on its way toward its homeland.»

Although Whitehead's Category of the Ultimate is meant to lessen the distance, so to speak, between actual occasions and societies of actual occasions, the application of Whitehead's metaphysics to persons seems troublesome; the ancient metaphysical problem of appearance and reality seems to lurk in the background, for the philosopher who wishes to identify res vera in the system soon finds herself perplexed, asking if the subjects of experience are actual occasions, societies of occasions, or sentient beings, such as persons and animals.1

For example, the Hungarian - born moral and political philosopher Aurel Kolnai speaks for a conservatism that attempts to do justice to the reality of a natural order as well as to the prudential requirements of political life.

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

The Christian philosopher can not as a philosopher speak of the unique act of God in Jesus Christ, just as he can say nothing of particular events in any area, but he can and should so structure his ideas as to allow for such unique acts and particular events.

They appeal to these realities as metaphors to recall Whitehead's memorable statement, speaking of the words and phrases which philosophers use: «they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.»

When the same scientists speak about God, they are no longer speaking as a scientist but as a philosopher, a theologian.

Of course a philosopher can not in his official capacity speak of an act of God, for he never speaks of concrete events such as transactions between persons.

Pozas was speaking as an advocate for the Great Ape Project (GAP), the brainchild of Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal - rights philosopher Paola....

The great German philosopher speaks to those who feel as though the tradition - shredding ideals of liberal modernity have brought us to a dead end.

However, we are now in position to understand why Hartshorne and Reese, in their impressive study of conceptions of God entitled Philosophers Speak of God, define the panentheistic deity as «The Supreme as Eternal - Temporal Consciousness, Knowing and including the World.

Indeed, Chopra and Walsch speak about God and our capacity to experience God with the realism and confidence of the ancient philosophers and poets that Luke quotes as he forms this Pauline speech in Acts.

Alfred North Whitehead, the great Anglo - American philosopher whose thinking is behind the «process conceptuality» to which some of us subscribe, rightly called such ideas idolatrous, and spoke of them as apostasy from the «Galilean vision» (as he styled it) in which God is «modeled» after the figure of Jesus Christ.

We try as theologians, as ministers and priests, as popes and philosophers, to speak the truth for all time.

As Princeton philosopher of religion Jeffrey Stout has written, «There is no method for good argument and conversation save being conversant — that is, being well versed on one's own tradition and on speaking terms with others»

Whitehead's biographers, as a rule, have distinguished three phases in his intellectual development and, using as their criterion the professor's change of location, have spoken of the mathematician at Cambridge (1884 - 1910), the philosopher of nature in London (1910 - 1924), and the metaphysician at Harvard (1924 - 1947)(cf. DWP).

Initially he thought that — he was simply explicating what Whitehead should have said or perhaps even wanted to say (The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God [New Haven, CN: Yale University Press -LCB- 1948; 1974 -RCB--RSB-, 30 - 31; Charles Hartshorne and William Reese, Philosophers Speak of God [Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953; 1965], 274; henceforth cited as PSG).

You can, as some chemists suggest, try to distinguish between «brain» and «mind», which probably speaks to a distinction between personal emotion and pharmacological causation better than any other system, but doing so turns judges into borderline philosophers.

Or, as Clayton says, quoting the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, «If a lion could speak, we wouldn't be able to understand him.»

Early natural philosophers such as Galileo, Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle thought heat a kind of fluid, called caloric, and we still speak of heat «flowing».

If we look outside the scientific enterprise of his time to the culture in general, we discover that this same turn - of - the - century period in which Einstein conceived his theory of relativity put him in the national German - speaking Jewish company of such contemporaries as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, the revolutionary atonalist composer Arnold Schoenberg, the critic Walter Benjamin, the great anthropologist Franz Boas, and the philosopher of symbolic forms Ernst Cassirer.

Scientists and philosophers should be shocked by the idea of post-truth, and they should speak up when scientific findings are ignored by those in power or treated as mere matters of faith.

Thompson is impressive in a role that required he learn how to speak with a stutter, but the rest of the cast (including the usually funny Aaron Yoo) is horribly wasted, with Jonah Hill's role as a library dwelling Junior Philosopher registering as one of the most unnecessary cameos of the year.

Their black muzzle and whiskers earned them the nickname «bearded dogs» in old folk songs.The Griff's big black eyes — described as «almost human» — coupled with a fringed beard and mustache covering his short muzzle, gives him the air of a worldly, French - speaking philosopher.

Philosopher Michele Faith Wallace speaks of this space as a site of potentiality as opposed to a space of absence or negation.

Under various topics such as «Reason and Politics», «Genocide», «Trance», and «Totem and Fetish», individuals among which are philosophers, musicologists, ethnologists, healers or fetishists speak directly to the camera as they build a massive essay on psychiatric pathology en masse.

These began with the White Party on Wednesday, the fair's kickoff gala, sponsored by Whitewall, «the first art lifestyle magazine,» as it calls itself, and a pre-party lecture by Alain Badiou, a French philosopher influenced (according the fair's press material) by Plato, Hegel, Lacan and Deleuze, who spoke on «Speaking the Unspeakable.»

Philosopher Simon Critchley speaks about collaborative relationships at the Guggenheim Museum as part of «It Takes Two,» a symposia presented on the occasion of the retrospective «Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,» on April 23 — 24, 2016.

As part of the Royal Institute of British Architects series of lectures on Architecture and Climate Change, Herbert Girardet, environmentalist, urban philosopher and author spoke on «The Compelling Logic of Positive Action».

According to Karl Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science in the past millennium, «In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.»

As Australia continued to burn NLP's Alex Doherty spoke with Australian philosopher and climate change activist Clive Hamilton.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said it first: «We have two ears and one mouth, so we can listen twice as much as we speak.»