Sentences with phrase «what philosophers»

Because in these cases, most people recognize that while there may be special contextual considerations of which both therapists and clients should be aware, the underlying ethical principles governing our work — what philosophers call «normative principles» — do not change in the slightest.

What philosophers do with that idea is their business.

Philosophy isn't about the brain processes involved in our experiences; what philosophers try to do is to explain these experiences themselves by uncovering their structural characteristics.

Geneticists have now confirmed what philosophers long suspected — women are more complex than men.

Equality of the Sexes This view of Spelke's is what philosophers call a «nativist» theory — that certain of our traits are inborn.

What we philosophers do get trained for is analysis of reasoning.

We want what philosophers call «luck egalitarianism»; a society in which inequalities that are as a result of luck, of accident of birth, should be rectified, but not those that are due to individual choices.

A metaphor is absurd if interpreted literally because the two contexts are widely disparate; there is a flagrant crossing of what philosophers call type - boundaries».

Since we by nature must seek out mystery and live with what philosophers call a sense of wonder, the.

I have no idea what the philosophers do with this morbid insight.

However, there is a logic and a view of reality (what philosophers call a «metaphysics») operative in the realm of revelatory promise and hope that is deeply resistant to the demands of critical consciousness as it is usually understood.

Here the person has discovered what the philosophers call the ontological question as a matter of life and death for the self.

Because of that, I do not believe in theologians like Karl Barth saying, You do not have to worry about what the philosophers are saying — I think we had all better worry, at least a little, about what any careful, serious, sincere person says.

The fact that one possesses what the philosophers call a «fully functioning sensory apparatus» doesn't guarantee that one genuinely hears what's said.

This is what philosophers refer to as a question of distributive justice.

In his fiction, the church exists on the periphery of the community's fellowship, and exhibits what philosopher Norman Wirzba calls a «disincarnate form of Christianity,» a kind of gnosticism, isolated and disconnected from where the people live their lives during the week.

We all live in what the philosopher Alfred Schutz called «multiple realities.»

It was the task of St Thomas to make a Christian of Aristotle, not to make a better scientist of him... (He) became to the generations that followed him a model of what a philosopher should be, and research was left to the alchemists, whom the popular mind obstinately associated with magic.

Thus, we have to do with what the philosopher Josiah Royce used to call «world loyalty.»

The prevailing understanding of the subordination of Love under the dominant role of divine Power that we have been encountering in the history of western Christian thought not only failed to resolve what the philosopher Leibniz termed the «theodicy» problem but, in fact, explicitly gave rise to it.

It's a point that was missed in the aftermath of what philosopher Richard Bernstein called the abuse of evil, the use of the word evil to stifle thinking rather than promote it.

Indeed this dialectic, worked out in the context of Ricoeur's general theory of discourse in Interpretation Theory, underlies what the philosopher now tells us about understanding biblical texts.

I like what the philosopher Slavoj Žižek says: «As I always repeat, what we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.»

most influential part of the Indian press not only makes little use of its freedom; it helps diminish the space for public discussion, which partly accounts for what the philosopher Pratap Mehta calls the «extraordinary nondeliberative nature of Indian politics.»

In short, the important parameter that is obscured in Goheen's suggestion is the critical necessity of attending to the content of what a philosopher believes men can, and do, experience.

The idea that everyone aspires to a romantic relationship — or should — is what the philosopher Elizabeth Brake in her book Minimizing Marriage (2012) calls amatonormativity, and it's harmful to those on a different path.

Ultimately, the FDA,... and Health Canada seem to be operating under what philosopher Rhonda Shaw has identified as the «Yuk Factor» — responding to the dominant cultural meaning of milk sharing rather than the medical issues associated with milk sharing.

At its heart is what philosopher David Chalmers at New York University termed the «hard problem» of consciousness: how can physical networks of neurons produce experiences that appear to fall outside the material world?

Caring for one's students in this way — what philosopher Nel Noddings has called «authentic caring,» in contrast to the aesthetic caring of the classroom efficiency club — is as important to Vilson as his students» mastery of the constant of proportionality.

November 19, 2010 — February 20, 2011 Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies as «working reverie,» each artist in this exhibition turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.

As the set configurations and collage works of von Bonin and Burr invert particular aesthetic styles and art historical doctrines — including the supposed neutrality of Minimalism, the circuitous heritage of negative aesthetics, and the role of the artist as iconoclast, among them — Sullivan and Zmijewski adopt different versions of what philosopher Alain Badiou has argued is constitutive of cinema, namely «a procedure of theatrical sampling.»

Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies as «working reverie,» each artist in The Nameless Hour turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.

Not exact matches

Paraphrasing the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, author Will Durant wrote, «We are what we repeatedly do.

However, as said by the Roman philosopher Seneca, «Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity.»

I'm a small - town philosopher who likes words to mean what they mean.

Derek is a philosopher - king among startup contrarians, and he knows how to get what he wants, however odd.

However, beyond what many of us were exposed to in high school, and as most are generally familiar, Physics actually branches out expansively, into numerous realms, many of which philosophers have played around with for ages.

Aristotle's view on the nature of happiness was summed up poignantly by philosopher Will Durant: «We are what we repeatedly do.»

The philosopher Aristotle offered an explanation a really, really long time ago: «We are what we repeatedly do.

Michael Puett and Christine Gross - Loh are the authors of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

That time period in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the principle:

Dawkins is one of the preeminent living natural scientists... what in the would could be gained from an atheist natural scientist debating a theological philosopher?

reality quotes arrogance, «John Hick, a noted British philosopher of religion, estimates that 95 percent...» What's the methodology used in to reach this Hick conclusion?

As Albert the Great, medieval philosopher, scientist, and teacher of Thomas Aquinas, remarked: «In the natural sciences we do not investigate how God the Creator operates according to His will and uses miracles to show His power, but rather what may happen in natural things on the ground of the causes inherent in nature» (In I De caelo et mundo, tr.

He is the preeminent architect of what British philosopher G. K. Minogue has called «suffering situations.»

And in doing so, they'd gotten stuck inside what Polish philosopher Wojciech Chudy, an intellectual great - grandson of John Paul II, called the post-Kantian «trap of reflection»: thinking - about - thinking - about - thinking, rather than thinking about reality — in this case, the Gospel and its truths.

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?

To find contentment, you must accept what ancient philosophers call the «tragic sense of life.»

What, for example, can the life of the fellow with the wool ties and Teutonic humor tell us about what was most vital and central to Hans - Georg Gadamer, the German philosopher who died almost two years ago, on March 14, 2002, at the remarkable age of What, for example, can the life of the fellow with the wool ties and Teutonic humor tell us about what was most vital and central to Hans - Georg Gadamer, the German philosopher who died almost two years ago, on March 14, 2002, at the remarkable age of what was most vital and central to Hans - Georg Gadamer, the German philosopher who died almost two years ago, on March 14, 2002, at the remarkable age of 102.

Though the word «fatalism» is commonly used to refer to an atti tude of resignation in the face of some future event or events which are thought to be inevitable, philosophers usually use the word to refer to the view that: we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do.