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I think the mathematician and philosopher thought that, in that way, his students might focus more on the voice, and his words and its meaning, rather than the visual of him speaking.
And for that we turn to a great philosopher who was a very smart man despite being a Yankee fan.
As a philosopher and social scientist, I have been studying these questions about the concept of parenthood.
So the philosopher in me would now like to offer you a paradox: I advise you to stop following advice.
And I think now we need a surge of imagination, creativity, informed by history, for, as the philosopher Santayana reminded us, in the end, only those who refuse to study history are condemned to repeat it.
These are two-way roads, very narrow rights of way, and he shows this well-known philosopher, who said, "Broad is the road that leads to destruction ... narrow is the road that leads to life."
Indeed, in the book "Superintelligence" by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, he picks up on this theme and observes that a superintelligence might not only be dangerous, it could represent an existential threat to all of humanity.
As the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes pointed out all the way back in 1642, that's because the mere act of disagreement is offensive.
Among his victims were the great statesman and philosopher Thomas More – once his close friend and advisor – and Anne Boleyn, the new queen Henry had torn the country apart to marry.
This is the trolley problem, a version of an ethical dilemma that philosopher Philippa Foot devised in 1967.
In his classic essay The Myth of Sisyphus, existentialist philosopher Albert Camus compared the punishment to humanity’s futile search for meaning and truth in a meaningless and indifferent universe.
The philosopher Thomas More first hinted at it in his book, "Utopia," more than 500 years ago.
But it really goes back all the way to the Greek philosopher Protagoras, if not farther back.
As a bioethicist, a lawyer, a philosopher and an Iranian-American, I'm deeply concerned about what this means for our freedoms and what kinds of protections we need.
Meet Immanuel Kant, 18th-century German philosopher superstar.
In the mid-20th century, literary critic W.K. Wimsatt and philosopher Monroe Beardsley argued that artistic intention was irrelevant.
Contemporary philosopher Noel Carroll took this stance, arguing that an artist's intentions are relevant to their audience the same way a speaker's intentions are relevant to the person they’re engaging in conversation.
The philosopher Plato once said, "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
And I said, "I'm sorry, my powers as a poet and philosopher only go so far.
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell was not a religious man, but he said, "It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and it's from our hearts that it must be plucked out."
A Bible salesman lures a one-legged philosopher into a barn.
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin suggested that rather than being amoral, The Prince hearkens back to ancient Greek morality, placing the glory of the state above the Christian ideal of individual salvation.
But to paraphrase a famous Hollywood philosopher, "With prodigious potential comes prodigious risk."
But very early on I learned that, as esteemed philosopher Kendrick Lamar once said, it's really important to be humble and to sit down.
It didn't matter what Thomas Hobbes, who was a local philosopher, said about it, you know, because you weren't going to be talking final causes.
Now Machiavelli is a figure who's often derided in the West, but the liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin reminded us that the goal of Machiavelli was to promote virtue, not evil.
That's the best they could come up with, that we laugh because it's our ancient response to the passing of animal danger, from which I think, people, we could conclude that asking a philosopher to define comedy is like asking Stevie Wonder to help you find your car keys.
Hypatia of Alexandria was a prominent mathematician, philosopher, and advisor to the city’s leaders.
The philosophy Hypatia taught drew from the legacy of Plato and Aristotle, as well as the mystical philosopher Plotinus and the mathematician Pythagoras.
Now, I'm not a philosopher, so I feel like I shouldn't go into great depth on this, but let film speak for itself and take you to this other world.
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