Example collocations logo

Philosopher in sentence

445 examples of Philosopher in a sentence

When Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben recently appealed for a Latin empire to assert itself against Germany, his call was widely rejected, with several of his contemporaries asserting that, on the contrary, Germany should serve as a model for Italy as it seeks to overcome its current malaise.
As the political philosopher Larry Siedentop has argued, “secularization is Christianity’s gift to the world.”
American political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson calls this the standard of democratic equality.
Blasphemy And CarnivalNEW YORK: From his Paris exile in 1970, Emil Cioran, the iconoclastic Romanian philosopher, wrote of his nostalgia for the somewhat naive energy of those who stayed behind.
The American philosopher John Rawls offered the classic definition of civil disobedience in the early 1970s.
To quote Havel's close friend, the Catholic priest and philosopher Tomas Halik (whom Havel once proposed as his successor), democracy without civil society is like a body without blood circulation.
As the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah puts it, “Thou shalt not kill is a test you take pass-fail.
So it should be no surprise that Karl Popper, with his pragmatic yet value-based approach, was his favorite philosopher.
The “New” Iraq InsurgencySun Tzu, the great Chinese philosopher of war, once wrote, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
Democracy in Tea Party AmericaBERKELEY – When the French politician and moral philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of his Democracy in America in 1835, he did so because he thought that France was in big trouble and could learn much from America.
There is a mutual gain from economic cooperation in addition to what each type of talent could produce independently – an insight later built on by the philosopher John Rawls.
André Glucksmann is a philosopher and essayist.
Michael Novak is a philosopher and diplomat;Yohei Sasakawa is Chairman of The Nippon Foundation.
Yet he governed in the style of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s liberal fox, who knows many things, as opposed to Berlin’s hedgehog, who knows one big thing.
In the course of a few years, it had become the proud self-definition of Italian fascism, endorsed by Mussolini’s education minister, Giovanni Gentile, who became the official philosopher of fascism, and then incorporated in a ghost-written article by Mussolini himself in the Encyclopedia of Fascism.
As the scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi would say of such tacit knowledge, we know more than we can tell.
The philosopher Michael Walzer puts it well: “It is easy to get one’s hands dirty in politics.”
The best partial explanation that I have seen starts with the philosopher Ernest Gellner’s cruel observation about left-wing academics.
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes argued that our natural state leads to a life that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” which is why we need a strong, centralized political authority (the so-called Leviathan).
As an evolutionary biologist and philosopher of science, my view is that human nature certainly exists, but that it is not based on an “essence” of any kind.
Why does any of this matter to someone who is not a scientist or a philosopher?
Baroness Mary Warnock, the moral philosopher who chaired the British government committee responsible for the 1984 “Warnock Report,” which established the framework for her country’s pioneering legislation on in vitro fertilization and embryo research, disagrees.
In his study of truth-telling in ancient Greece, the philosopher Michel Foucault pointed out that the act of truth-telling cannot be reduced to citizens learning something that they did not know before.
A disciple of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros has promoted open societies as the ultimate guarantee of freedom from tyranny and religious or ideological indoctrination, and as a powerful weapon against rising social inequality.
In a 2014 speech, Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, cited the Fascist Italian philosopher Julius Evola, who argued that “changing the system is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up.”
Democracy Without DemocratsThe philosopher Karl Popper had ample reason to propose a precise definition of democracy.
For example, Christopher Boorse, a philosopher at the University of Delaware, defines disease as a statistical deviation from “species-typical functioning.”
Nevertheless, Anita Silvers, a philosopher at San Francisco State University and a disability scholar and activist, has described such treatments as “tyranny of the normal,” aimed at adjusting the deaf to a world designed by the hearing, ultimately implying the inferiority of deafness.
For thinkers and politicians that follow the road of the American philosopher John Rawls, democracy consists of and depends upon procedural justice.
Tribalism has strong appeal in periods of rapid, tumultuous change, as what the political philosopher Karl Popper called the “the strain of civilization” exerts its pressures on society.
BackNext