Sentences with phrase «taken by some philosophers»

Recent speculations in physics resulting in theories of a finite world of space - time have however been taken by some philosophers as warrant for belief in some infinite reality «beyond» the finite world, upon which that world is dependent.

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My logic is sound, by the way, taken from Aristotle, St Thomas Aqunas and even modern day philosophers from my days in seminary.

The pressure of epistemological standards established by minimalistic philosophies was extremely strong at that time, and any philosopher who wanted to be treated seriously in academic circles had to take them into account.

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

In recent years, the eminent mathematician and mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose has taken up the Lucas argument, further refined it, and answered criticisms that had been leveled at it by mathematicians and philosophers.

Moreover, since God is not merely a construct of the philosopher but is actually encountered by the philosopher, philosophy must take this into account.

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.

It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

As the Socrates of Plato's Republic acknowledges the likelihood of the world continuing in its evils, he describes the philosopher as someone who retreats from public life «like someone who takes refuge under a little wall from a storm of dust or hail driven by the wind» (Republic 496d).

The paper itself takes the occasion of the publication of a book on each of these two philosophers by Paul O. Kuntz (ANW, BR) as an opportunity for re-examining some of the interesting philosophical and historical comparisons between these two pivotal intellectual figures of our century.

This becomes particularly clear when one takes account of certain basic presuppositions that are now widely shared by theologians as well as philosophers.

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.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

Above all else, the edifying philosopher takes responsibility for keeping this conversation alive, not by «finding the proper set of terms into which all the contributions should be translated,» but by being willing «to pick up the jargon of the interlocutor, rather than translating it into one's own.»

Lindbeck observed that in their emphasis upon the function of religious language as propositional information about objective realities, conservative theologians tend to confirm the approach to religion taken by most Anglo - American analytic philosophers.

Philosopher Albert Borgmann, a Montana neighbor of mine, is our most eloquent and important spokesman in exposing the dangers of letting technology determine the way we live, dictating the means by which we, in his phrase, «take up with the world.»

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

Thus Justin, the martyr - philosopher of the second century, stated: «All those who have lived by the Logos, i.e., by the eternal, divine World - Reason, are Christians, even if they have been taken as atheists, like Socrates and Heraclitus.»

2) The second view philosophers have traditionally taken in light of this problem, denies that the human soldier, if by the term «human soldier» we mean to refer to the composite of soul and body, is a single substance, and holds instead that the tiniest parts composing him are.

In his generation Aquinas, taking account of Aristotle, enabled many earnest intellectuals, troubled by the use made of that philosopher by sceptics, to see that without violating their integrity of mind they could remain Christian.

In it he is trying to persuade philosophers to take Whitehead seriously by separating him from the theologians.

The liberal philosopher John Rawls described how a socially just society was one taken by people unaware of what position they would occupy within it.

The sometimes mischievous French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard earned himself a bit of notoriety in the wake of Operation Desert Storm by declaring that the the Gulf War did not take place.

The latest political philosopher - king to take Westminster by storm is American journalist David Brooks, a man favoured by President Obama.

One other view (that has not been held by very many philosophers) is sometimes called the growing block theory of time, which is a theory that takes the past and present to exist but the future to be nonexistent.

This approach was taken up in experimental work by Justin Sytsma, a graduate student, and experimental philosopher Edouard Machery at the University of Pittsburgh and in work by Larry (Bryce) Huebner, a graduate student at UNC - Chapel Hill, and all of the experiments arrived at the same basic answer.

If you are a Catholic who takes his faith seriously, i've discovered this super dating site that not only allows you to join free (so that you can have a good look around before committing yourself) but you can also down load a free eBook on love and marriage written by one of the greatest Catholic philosophers of the twentieth century.

«Viam supervadet vadens» by the Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca (English: if you really want to find your happiness, take actions).

The complication is that Agis, since a boy, was taken in by philosopher Hermocrates (Ben Kingsley) and his spinster sister Leontine (Fiona Shaw), a scientist attempting to generate electricity: inveterate hermits both.

The star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, «Tomorrowland»), has been abducted by a couple of extras who take them with their true captors, a group of communist writers (led by the epically inconsistent communist philosopher Herbert Marcuse) that call itself «The Future.»

It's too smart for its own good, presenting a superhero origin story without allowing any of its characters to ever once even whisper the word (a lot like «The Walking Dead» making everyone look like assholes by avoiding the term «zombie») and spending too much time letting its teen titans drop names like Schopenhauer before making it clear that the character who most embraces the philosopher's theories of aesthetics and self - abnegation ultimately takes up the mantle of one of Schopenhauer's offshoots, Nietzsche.

During one such visit in 1865, Elizabeth took Millicent to hear a speech by John Stuart Mill, a social and political theorist and philosopher who believed in women's suffrage.

Conceived and organized by guest curator Philipp Kaiser, UNPACKING takes its title from German philosopher Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay, «Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting.»

Curated by Séamus Kealy, the exhibition takes its cue from the term «punctum», which was coined by the French philosopher Roland Barthes in his final book Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography.

In the Focus, Slovenian cultural theorist and philosopher Renata Salecl takes an in - depth look at Holzer's Lustmord series, which was precipitated by the events in the former Yugoslavia and boldly addresses the atrocities committed in war.

Taking inspiration from a seminal essay by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation 1981, the exhibition highlights the role of Bacon's approach to space, which Deleuze interpreted as one of the defining forces of his work.

Cool Memories takes its title and approach to a «fragmentary and messy» structure from philosopher Jean Baudrillard's essay series, creating a space «where consciousness loses its ability to distinguish reality from its simulation» and promising «an assembly line for images, for shots swallowed by the present that they're desperately trying to hold back.»

The night between the 17th and 18th June, Moderna Museet metamorphoses when it is taken over by 50 Swedish, French and German philosophers, thinkers and artists.

Taking its title from a Jean - Luc Nancy essay, in which the philosopher described the impossibility of community, but that community was nonetheless defined by our attempts to create it, this exhibition brings together film and video works dating from 1968 onwards, made originally for galleries, cinemas and television.

At the same time, 80 primary school children will take the lead by transforming neglected sites in Margate this July after 18 months of work with local politicians, council officers, a Philosopher, Turner Contemporary's learning team and their chosen artist.

Other writers include fellow - traveler philosopher Laurence A. Rickels who has taken down the Official Psychoanalytic History of Umma and Korea, by interpreting Kim Il Soon's dreams, unlocking her «andere Schauplatz» where she unleashes a desire for Unification.

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

Have you attempted inflicting real pain on yourself by reading the philosopher that took Plato ideas to the ultimate irrationality?

When somebody arrives to twist history and clear historical facts to support his own understanding of how science progress and how it is understood by historian and philosophers, it is useless to take him in consideration.

However, in his ongoing defense of this position he has failed to take into account what Cohen and other philosophers mean by «intuition,» and so failed to engage the sense in which intuitions are necessary for deliberation.

Before diving into the authoritarian parenting mindset, let's take a quick look at the pure, archetypical authoritarian personality as it was originally theorized by sociologist and philosopher Theodor Adorno.