Sentence examples for western philosopher from inspiring English sources
Again, a 20th-century western philosopher - Foucault - has also articulated the limits of language.
Not, at least, according to virtually every Western philosopher and theologian from antiquity to the 18th-century.
Aristotle is the top Western philosopher, with Plato and Kant getting the silver and the bronze and Fichte coming in at No. 20.
To assume that tragedy has lost viability is to forget that this viability was seriously questioned by the first Western philosopher to address himself to the problem.
Karl Jaspers, a 20th-century Western philosopher, has discerned an "axis age"—i.e., a turning point in human history in the 6th century bc, when Confucius, the Buddha, Zoroaster, Deutero-Isaiah, and Pythagoras were alive contemporaneously.
Even Thales the first Western philosopher we know about, once worked out meteorological probabilities that made it possible for him to predict a great year for the Greek olive crop.
The bulk of contemporary philosophical scholarship in China is not, however, of much direct interest to Western philosophers (or the general public), which is why there is such a disparity between translations of work done by the comparativists into Chinese (a lot) and Chinese scholarship rendered into English (very little).
Its journal featured articles on a wide range of Western philosophers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Ernst Haeckel, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Henry Buckle.
But although Nietzsche is probably the most radical of all the western philosophers, both Jesus and the Buddha were more radical still.
Even Western philosophers such as Soren Kierkegaard have argued that civic society of the type Gove extols is merely a staging post to a higher, religious life.
While convalescing, he read a variety of Western philosophers: Kierkegaard, Spinoza, Hume, Kafka, etc. Enamored of metaphysics, he then wrote down his own philosophy, which appears under the headings I. Critique of Pure Dread II.
