Sentences with phrase «thought led philosopher»

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Bertrand Russell - philosopher, logician and leading atheist - was clearly a brilliant man, and he's famous for his «celestial teapot» argument regarding the burden of proof: «Nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice.

Scotus calls St. Paul the Christian philosopher and seeks in his philosophy to find a balance between Augustinianism and Aristotelianism in such a way that he often agrees with Aquinas but sometimes disagrees where therigour of his thinking leads him in other directions.

I profoundly disagree with his desire to deontologize religious faith; I think that this tendency following the lead of 19th - century philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach in reducing the transcendent to secular concerns, profoundly misconstrues the essential genius of faith — at least Christian faith.

In the philosopher's own words, his thought, early and late, has led him to «a permanent mistrust of the pretensions of the subject in posing itself as the foundation of its own meaning.

Dutch philosopher Erasmus led the Renaissance with innovative thinking.

The Boston Review called Vanessa Place «the spokesperson for the new cynical avant - garde,» the Huffington Post characterized her work as «ethically odious,» while philosopher and critic Avital Ronell said she is «a leading voice in contemporary thought.»

The Boston Review called Vanessa Place «the spokesperson for the new cynical avant - garde,» theHuffington Post characterized her work as «ethically odious,» while philosopher and critic Avital Ronell said she is «a leading voice in contemporary thought.»

Mauri gives poetic answers to a lucid scrutiny of Western thought following the lead of German philosophers Immanuel Kant, who in the wake of the French revolution asked, «What is Enlightenment?»

Designed to be «high level» these Institutes were to attract faculty who were otherwise respected professionals in the law library community, leading scholars, academics, authors, think tank specialists, futurists, philosophers, jurists, lawyers and historians.