Based on the philosopher Alan Watts, one of the great popularisers of Zen Buddhism in the west, Henry is irritating, patronising, sometimes sulky and self-pitying, but he is also wise and humane, and there is pathos in watching a man who has always been at the centre of every cool scene feel his youth and influence slide away.
The domestic film being released, "Confucius," is loosely based on the philosopher's life, including his supposed romantic attachment to a concubine.
By Cynthia Zarin February 15 , 2018Nina Hoss appears in "Returning to Reims,"a production by the Schaubühne theatre company based on the French philosopher Didier Eribon's memoir.
A reference to the Consolatio made by the Christian theologian Jerome in a consolation letter to Heliodorus of Altino concerning the death of St. Nepotian suggests that the work was heavily based on the Greek philosopher Crantor's ancient work De Luctu ("On Grief").
The study is based on the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur's (1913 2005) approach to hermeneutic- phenomenology, his theory of interpretation, and his theory of time and narrative [ 16, 17].
www.lct.org HANNAH & MARTIN -- The Epic Theater Center presents a drama by Kate Fodor based on the real-life philosophers and lovers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger -- she a Jew, he her mentor who, for a time, aligned himself with the Nazis.
The reflective lifeworld design developed by Dahlberg [ 6] is based on the work of philosophers Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.
In later years, he operated a mail-order business and served on the board and as treasurer of the Institute of General Semantics, which is based on the language theories of the philosopher Alfred Korzybski.
The Shushigaku, based on the Chinese school of the philosopher Chu Hsi, became the cornerstone of education, teaching as cardinal virtues filial piety, loyalty, obedience, and a sense of indebtedness to one's superiors.
His second, "The Thought Gang," ricochets around France, where an epicurean, alcoholic Cambridge philosopher teams up with a one-armed psychopath to commit a series of bank robberies, some of them based on the thought of specific philosophers.
Important works of literature and poetry based on the teachings of these philosophers were written during the coming centuries.
