The word 'philosophers' is correct and commonly used in written English
You can use it when referring to people who study and think about the nature of reality, existence, and knowledge, and who seek to understand the meaning of life and the universe. Example: Many philosophers throughout history have grappled with the concept of free will and its relationship to determinism.
For those without faith or such purpose, said Allen, there is no good answer to life's grim reality, despite the best efforts of philosophers to find one.
One of the rare domestic pictures shows a striker's home, the tattooed miner with his feet up by the fire, his pre-teenage son reading a pamphlet called How your benefit is worked out, his wife watching Arthur Scargill on the TV, with a reproduction of Constable's Hay Wain on one wall opposite a poster of Marx with his quote "Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it".
And his preferences, we learn, are the poets and thinkers who stem from the German Romantic tradition: the poet Holderlin, most obviously, but also it could be argued the philosophers Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Art has become a safe haven for money, though values are uncertain in the business and interpretations are highly subjective.Early modern philosophers and art traders wrestled with notions of art's value and authenticity as the market prospered.
Despite a century of poking and prodding at the brain, psychologists, neurologists, sociologists and philosophers are still a long way from an understanding of how a mind might be made or what one is.
One bearded Taliban press man even railed against parties for their wicked alleged sympathies for three European philosophers, Rousseau, Kant and Bentham.
Later, Mr Djindjic fell in with Yugoslavia's New Left philosophers gathered under the banner of the journal Praxis, before joining fellow students from Croatia and Slovenia, the least backward republics in Yugoslavia, to set up a non-communist student front.
The queen of studies embraces all of life, including psychology and the social sciences, but philosophers think of themselves as engaged in an intellectual discipline, characterised by argument, which, even if it settles nothing, is a splendid mental workout.This is not to knock Mr de Botton's efforts, at least not much.
Gone, too, were many of the works of Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles and countless other ancient astronomers, mathematicians, poets, playwrights and philosophers.
In attempting to integrate materials and message, they have looked to the philosophers and artists of the past.
By the middle of this century, most English-speaking philosophers had turned away from the idealist tradition, and concluded that the world was at bottom physical.
