Sentence examples for major philosopher from inspiring English sources

We do not disagree, but a candid philosophical retrospective assessment of any major philosopher is bound to find flaws.

Almost every major philosopher, novelist, and political leader pushed ideas and plans, many of them inspired by foreign models.

Although Socrates exerted a profound influence on Greek and Roman thought, not every major philosopher of antiquity regarded him as a moral exemplar or a major thinker.

While Mencius has always been regarded as a major philosopher, special importance was attributed to him and his work by the neo-Confucians of the Song dynasty (960 1279).

August 6, 1638 Paris, France October 13, 1715 Paris, France Nicolas Malebranche, (born Aug. 6, 1638, Paris, France died Oct. 13, 1715, Paris) French Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and major philosopher of Cartesianism, the school of philosophy arising from the work of René Descartes.

In light of this empirical research, no major philosopher now holds (perhaps no major philosopher ever held) that we have infallible, indubitable, incorrigible, or self-intimating knowledge of the causes of our judgments, decisions, and behavior.

There were still major philosophers outstanding whom he admired but whose views disturbed him.

"He was clearly one of the major philosophers of the 20th century," Dr. Griffin said of Dr. Hartshorne.

In the early 20th century, most of the major philosophers of science (Morris Schlick, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, for example) had done advanced work in physics.

Round one was the public debate, which marked the release of James Miller's "Examined Lives," a historical study of twelve major philosophers, men whose biographies suggest that the quest for knowledge might be hazardous to one's health.

Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and other major philosophers had as vivid and energizing sense of the ideal ideal state, ideal economy, ideal civil society as any earlier utopian writer.