Sentences with phrase «well as the philosopher»

It was this quest for factual certainty that prompted Aristotle in the fourth century before Christ to become, for his day, a great scientist as well as philosopher.

There is, of course, an astounding paradox to the human being which the word unique records, and unsophisticated folk as well as philosophers know that the paradox is real — that is, ontological.

Indeed, they make use of the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who in this matter wrongly adhered to the view held by Aristotle, who was a zoologist as well as a philosopher.

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

No one knows this as well as the philosopher.

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.

In addition to the authors named above, others whom both Millers identify within this orientation include Krishnamurti, Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, and Joseph Chilton Pearce, as well as philosophers such as Emerson and Whitehead.

I do like many artists as well as philosophers and thinkers and there are many I'd like to work or wanted to work with.

Participants included: designer Chris Kabel, artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski and Gil Leung as well as philosopher Alexei Penzin.

The Art and Space exhibition is accompanied by a profusely illustrated catalogue with texts and documents contributed by artists Peter Halley, Marcius Galan, Agnieszka Kurant, Asier Mendizabal, Bruce Nauman, Damián Ortega, Sergio Prego, Alyson Shotz, Lee Ufan, and Zarina, as well as the philosopher and writer Sara Nadal - Melsió and the show's curator, Manuel Cirauqui.

An omnivorous reader, influenced by the poet Rimbaud, as well as philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and with a love of music but little formal training in fine art, Nolan turned to painting at the age of 21, following in the footsteps of abstract painters like Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy.

Not exact matches

He formerly served as product philosopher at Google, and he's the co-founder of the Center for Human Technology (and the Time Well Spent movement).

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This book contains essays written by the controversial philosopher, as well as those by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen.

= > well, obviously Dawkins believes there is something to be gained as he has debated other theological philosophers.

But the better modern philosophers (e.g., Descartes and Kant, as opposed to, say, Voltaire) recognize that dependence in some way or another.

As the philosopher Roger Scruton puts it, «A society based on agape [selfless love] alone is all very well, but it will not reproduce itself: nor will it produce the crucial relation — that between parent and child — which is the basis on which we can begin to understand our relation to God.

And, not coincidentally, most enlightened philosophers have ultimately come to similar conclusions, for the good of society and mankind, as well as the individual.

The Canadian thinker Charles Taylor, in any case, is gaining status as the world's premier philosopher of modernity, the most judicious, the one who makes the most apt and discerning distinctions, the one who best sees both modernity's grandeur and its misery.

A lot has been changed by philosophers, scholars, and creeds, but I still accept all good people who believe in the Biblical Jesus as Christians.

Clearly the best collection of essays from a Kentucky farmer - philosopher, this book demonstrates the breadth of Wendell Berry's work, as well as his status as one of the most important commentators of our time on matters of community, land and ecology.

This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.

there is certainly nothing wrong with the belief that jesus was a good philosopher once you dismiss all the magical stores as fiction.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

The speaker was a well - published political philosopher (and, as I was to....

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

We must cultivate our rational theological assents as a preliminary to our full love, even as the budding philosopher - kings cultivated the liberal arts before drinking the Good's bacchic wine.

True, this type of theism has already had a good many defenders; but taking philosophers as a whole and theologians as a whole it is still far from true that the theological problem is seen in terms of its fundamental trichotomy, systematically investigated...

Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD — August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher.

Dr. Cobb suggests that Christianity needs the actual adoption of already - developed ideas as well as new ideas: «It is as important to liberate theology to pursue saving truth wherever it can be found (scientists, philosophers, Hindus...) as to liberate particular groups of people from oppression.»

As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

By contrast, those responsible for ruling, the «philosopher kings,» were to be «cultured» in a way that formed in them the «philosophical virtue» that was grounded in knowledge of the Good itself and not, as were the guardians» virtues, simply trained into them by custom and practice.

In one popular study of the problem of God today, John A. T. Robinson questions the relevance of a theism that would think of God as a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind.4 The same issue is raised by Harvey Cox, who writes: The willingness of the classical philosophers to allow the God of the Bible to be blurred into Plato's Idea of the Good or Aristotle's Prime Mover was fatal.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

As a general rule, to put it simply, if one wanders into one's library in search of mirth, good fellowship, or wit, one does well not to seek out the company of the philosophers.

The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a professional paleontologist as well as Jesuit philosopher, also exerted a formative influence.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

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).

I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.

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.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

The Buddhists held and hold it, at least one sect of Hinduism ditto, Peirce, perhaps the greatest cognitive genius this country ever had, and the Anglo - American (as I call him), A. N. Whitehead held it, as did Haeberlin, a Swiss philosopher and my best psychology teacher at Harvard, Leonard Troland.

As is well known, there are many significant points of divergence between the two philosophers, but we shall keep to our topic of human experience as manifested in its basic mode, primitive perceptioAs is well known, there are many significant points of divergence between the two philosophers, but we shall keep to our topic of human experience as manifested in its basic mode, primitive perceptioas manifested in its basic mode, primitive perception.

Our Founders were not philosophers; they had a job to do, albeit one that required great insight into the human condition as well as a myriad of changing circumstances.

Worship and work go together, as the American religious philosopher William Ernest Hocking so well put it in his book The Meaning of God in Human Experience.

Starting with Socrates, ancient philosophers in the Platonic - Aristotelian tradition contended that the human being is best understood as the subject of wonder.

In the Introduction editors Tan and Whalen - Bridge acknowledge their debt to Philosopher Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007), whose germinal work had revived John Dewey (1859 - 1952) and his pragmatism as a contribution not only to education, but in governance as well in his social democracy.

My friend David — who many of you will recognize as the «cool and understated» philosopher who supplied one of the best quotes of my book on page 223 — loves Appalachia too and is passionate about protecting its natural beauty and its inhabitants.