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It's a question that's been tossed around by philosophers and art critics for decades, with no consensus in sight.
Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have been trying to get to the bottom of this question for centuries— without reaching any consensus.
Well, this question has perplexed philosophers for thousands of years.
In the wake of her murder, other philosophers in the Greek and Roman tradition fled, and the city’s role as a center of learning declined.
For millennia, we've actually turned to the priests and the philosophers for guidance and instruction on this question of whether there's intelligent life out there.
For thousands of years, philosophers have said, if you think life is about money, and status and showing off, you're going to feel like crap.
Diogenes and his growing number of followers became known as “dog philosophers,” or kynikoi, a designation that eventually became the word “Cynic.”
Some Greek philosophers, like the Stoics, thought everyone should follow Diogenes’ example.
Greek philosophers promoted temperance.
And to help you, I've got two things to leave you with, from two great philosophers, perhaps two of the greatest philosopher thinkers of the 20th century, one a mathematician and an engineer, and the other a poet.
Now, to assist me in explaining this, I've enlisted the help of one of our greatest philosophers, the reigning king of the metaphorians, a man whose contributions to the field are so great that he himself has become a metaphor.
I'd like to thank everybody, all the scientists, the philosophers, the architects, the inventors, the biologists, the botanists, the artists ... everyone that blew my mind this week.
So, to make cooking really a very important element, I would say even philosophers have to change and have to finally recognize that cooking is what made us.
It dramatically exposes the raw beauty in the intense sadness of Philips observations of our relationship with our own mortality, and lays it our in a way that seems to have missed even the great philosophers.
Because it is a document of a man who remains--and will remain--one of the most important philosophers of the modern era.
various french philosophers provide background commentary regarding the German philosopher Heidegger and Holderlein's poem "The Ister", which has something to do with the ancient Greek name for a portion of the Danube river.
While the philosophers are commenting, we see images of the various portions of the river (in Romania, ex-Yugoslavia, Austria, etc), and images of the countries that it passes through.
While trying to save her mother Deborah (Elizabeth Godush), they are abducted by members of the sect Quanta Group, composed by scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that foresee the end of the world after a meteor shower.
I would recommend this movie to those who are interested in performance art, unconventional and experimental theatre, philosophers, intellects, etc.
We follow two stories : Laura (played by the ravishing Fanny Valette) is a 19 year-old philosophy student, committed to Kant and to rationalism in the midst of a pietistic household which, to put it mildly, does not share her enthusiasm for philosophy (as his pious sister remarks, philosophers take aim at their target and hit the bullseye : problem is, they're aiming at the wrong target).
Most philosophers, it seems, have been asleep on the job for a long time.
A Life that MatteredPRINCETON – On January 1, Derek Parfit, one of the greatest philosophers of my generation, died.
Of all the philosophers I have known since I began to study the subject more than 50 years ago, Parfit was the closest to a genius.
But then, so does every other answer that has been proposed since Parfit revived the problem and other philosophers began to offer their own solutions.
In this monumental work, totaling about 1,900 pages, Parfit challenges the idea – almost universally assumed by economists, and by many philosophers from David Hume onward – that the role of reason is to tell us how to get what we want, but not to tell us what to want.
Science has been studied by sociologists, historians, and philosophers, but rarely by scientists themselves.
The philosophers who were the intellectual fathers of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.
Recalling John Maynard Keynes’s dictum that “the world is ruled by little else” but “the ideas of economists and political philosophers,” perhaps policymakers need new ideas.
Putin quotes half-forgotten philosophers in an effort to show the spiritual superiority of Russia’s national soul.
Putin’s favorite philosophers are a mixed bag of mystical nationalists who all conceived of Russia as a spiritual community based on the Orthodox faith, but whose ideas are too diverse in other ways, and too obscure, to provide a coherent ideology.
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