Sentence examples for school of thinkers from inspiring English sources

This more robust concept of consciousness that distinguishes human personhood from more basic forms of perception has a very specific history, which dates to the early 17th century and is most associated with the French philosopher René Descartes and the school of thinkers that followed him.

We might usefully contrast this with the position of the school of thinkers called "political realists" whose outlook has some affinity with the dirty hands theorists to the point that the two are sometimes confused.

France's alliance with Russia and its entente with Great Britain, however, encouraged a reversal of plan, and after the turn of the century a new school of military thinkers began to argue for an offensive strategy.

In this way Cratylus turns out to belong to that school of sophistic thinkers who paradoxically deny that false statement is possible (see the entry on method and metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman).

This school hosted a group of thinkers who shared a common, very syncretistic interest in Plato's philosophy, especially in the thought of philosophers who were members of the Florence Academy (Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola).

For a predominantly Anglo-Saxon audience, raised in the empirical and positivist tradition, understanding a group of thinkers schooled in speculative Hegelianism and Marxist dialectics is always going to require a leap of faith.

So Krznaric, along with a whole school of social and cultural thinkers, believes that we should deploy empathy to sort out the mess we're in.

Nevertheless, it is clear that he gave rise to no school of thought, and subsequent thinkers seem to have picked and chosen from his works the parts they would accept and the parts they would reject.

It is in this account that the classification of thinkers into three concept schools, Daoist, Legalist, and School of Names first occurs.

One point made by Tosaka early on, a point often repeated today, is that without Tanabe's critical appropriation of Nishida's thought there would be no tradition of the Kyoto School; we would have only successors of "Nishida Philosophy" and not a genuine school of mutually related yet independent thinkers.

According to Ōhashi, in order for a group of thinkers to form a genuine "school" of philosophy, "there must be the common possession or formation of a thought" (Ōhashi 2004, 9).