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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy |
 | | The first Christian philosophers, the Fathers of the Church, were imbued with Greek ideas and took over from the circumambient neo-Platonism the commingling of philosophy and religion. | | | On the other hand, the Scholastic philosophers grew weaker and weaker, and, excepting for the brilliant Spanish Scholasticism of the sixteenth century (Bañez, Suarez, Vasquez, and so on), it may be said that ignorance of the fundamental doctrine became general. | | | It has often been remarked that Christianity, with its monotheistic dogma and its serene, purifying morality, came in the fulness of time and appeased the inward unrest with which souls were afflicted at the end of the Roman world. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12025c.htm
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| | Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In India, major philosophical texts include the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, from circa 500 BCE (see Hindu philosophy). | | | With the publication of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's Principia Mathematica in 1910-1913, logic became a central point in metaphysical arguments, a prominence that it hadn't had before. | | | These religious traditions took on questions about the relation of man to God. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher
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| | Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | He opposed interpretations of religion that emphasize doctrine or philosophical arguments intended to prove God's existence, but was greatly drawn to religious rituals and symbols, and considered becoming a priest. | | | He likened the ritual of religion to a great gesture, as when one kisses a photograph. | | | Kripke himself presents the argument not as Wittgenstein's, nor as his own, but as "Wittgenstein's argument as it struck Kripke" (Kripke p.5). |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/w/wittgens.htm
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| | Leo Strauss and the Straussians |
| | Both follow Strauss's division of philosophical history into the (good) "ancients" and the (bad) "moderns." According to the esoteric version, America was wholly modern from its inception: it is entirely the creation of the "modern project." The exoteric Straussians, like conservatives, prefer to emphasize America's continuity with the classical and Christian sources of Western civilization. | | | The Straussians are pre-modern and anti-modern, not in the name of religion (like the various forms of religious fundamentalism all over the world) or of tradition (like conservatives since Edmund Burke), but in the name of reason, of philosophy: an understanding of reason and philosophy different from the Enlightenment's. | | | Suffice it here to say that the Straussians, too, have to introduce quasi-objective standards of judgment, covertly and unintentionally: e.g., the social utility of religion and patriotism. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~karljahn/Strauss.htm
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| | savantway philosopher |
| | To the philosopher is given the responsibility of synthesizing, of harmoniously blending all knowledge into a unified whole. | | | The philosopher views all of existence as an interconnected whole, a unity manifesting as a multiplicity. | | | The philosopher seeks not merely answers but the fundamental principles that underlie those answers. |
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http://www.savantway.com/philosopher/philosopher.htm
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| | Jean-Luc Nancy - Professor of Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics - Biography |
| | He also offers original reinterpretations of major philosophical positions, such as Nietzsche's doctrine of "eternal recurrence," Descartes's "cogito," and the nature of language and meaning. | | | In 1984, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe put an end to the activities of the Centre, because, according to them, its role as a place of encounter 'had become almost completely dissociated from that as a place of research and questioning'. | | | It was published as a book in 2000 with the title L'intrus: the intruder. |
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http://www.egs.edu/faculty/nancy.html
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| | Philosophers Stone - Crystalinks |
| | In this view, spiritual elevation, the transmutation of metals, and the purification and rejuvenation of the body were seen to be manifestations of the same concept. | | | The mystical revival in the late 20th century renovated the public interest on alchemy, and particularly on this metaphysical and philosophical conception of the philosopher's stone - which is now subscribed by many people, especially within several New Age movements. | | | This change would presumably be mediated by a substance, which came to be called al-iksir in Arabic (from which comes the Western term "elixir"). |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/philosopherstone.html
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| | Johann Gottfried von Herder |
| | But this argument is unlikely to constitute a modern philosopher's main reason for interest in Herder's ideas about language (deriving its zest, as it does, from a religious background that is no longer ours). | | | Nonetheless, Herder's considered position is in fact the narrow expressivism that his two doctrines initially seem to suggest (so that his verbal sharing of these doctrines with Hamann masks an important difference of philosophical position between them). | | | This situation imposes limits on the interest of Herder's philosophy of religion, as on that of the other reconciling philosophers mentioned. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder
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| | Sunday Herald |
| | Vote for the greatest philosopher at bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime Julian Baggini’s latest book, The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten And 99 Other Thought Experiments, is published next month by Granta. | | | And yet Hume has endured, hailed by many as the greatest British philosopher. | | | He appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 23 |
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http://www.sundayherald.com/print50415
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle |
| | Both pupil and master regard philosophy as concerned with the universal; the former however, finds the universal in particular things, and calls it the essence of things, while the latter finds that the universal exists apart from particular things, and is related to them as their prototype or exemplar. | | | The exceptions to be found were John of Damascus, who in his "Source of Science" epitomizes Aristotle's "Categories" and "Metaphysics", and Porphyry's" Introduction"; Nemesius, Bishop of Emesa, who in his "Nature of Man" follows in the footsteps of John of Damascus; and Boethius, who translated several of Aristotle's logical treatises into Latin. | | | These translations and Porphyry's "Introduction" were the only Aristotelean works known to the first of the Schoolmen, that is to say, to the Christian philosophers of Western Europe from the ninth to the twelfth century. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01713a.htm
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| | AnalPhilosopher - |
| | Michael Ruse, like me, is (1) a philosopher, (2) a Darwinist, (3) an atheist, and (4) a respecter of religion. | | | Militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Brian Leiter, who hate religion and despise the religious, are vilifying him for it. | | | Philosophers are taught to focus on reasons, not motives. |
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http://www.analphilosopher.com
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| | The Philosopher's Stone |
| | So far, like Aristotle, we have taken for granted the existence of things that are desired or sought or chosen, and have investigated the relations of ends and means among them. | | | What better end could a man set himself than a universal means? | | | Gold is a means to all wealth, but the philosopher's stone is a means to all ends, a universal means. |
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http://www.quackgrass.com/stone.html
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| | Thoughts of a 21st-century Christian Philosopher |
| | I thank my Father in Heaven; my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Spirit who has taught me so much about what I thought I knew. | | | I will continue to call myself one until disabused of that notion. | | | As you probably can guess by the title of my page, I think that I'm some kind of philosopher. |
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http://www.christian-philosopher.com
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Plato: The Republic - The philosopher-king |
| | Or again: can he who is harmoniously constituted, who is not covetous or mean, or a boaster, or a coward--can he, I say, ever be unjust or hard in his dealings? | | | And how can we rightly answer that question? | | | We must come to an understanding about him, and, when we have done so, then, if I am not mistaken, we shall also acknowledge that such a union of qualities is possible, and that those in whom they are united, and those only, should be rulers in the State. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic-philosopherking.html
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| | L. Ron Hubbard the Philosopher: On Philosophy and Religion |
| | Those materials have further given rise to the only major religion founded in the twentieth century, and so stand as the spiritual cornerstone for several million adherents across all continents. | | | Ron Hubbard the Philosopher: On Philosophy and Religion | | | The materials of Scientology comprise the largest written and spoken body of any single philosophic work. |
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http://www.ronthephilosopher.org
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| | Philosopher |
| | The rest of the time is spent writing a dissertation, which must be an original manuscript analyzing some aspect of philosophy. | | | Philosophers spend their lives attempting to answer questions like these. | | | For those who do find teaching positions in philosophy, the work is quite similar to that of other professors in the humanities. |
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http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=112
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| | Ephilosopher :: Philosophy News, Research and Philosophical Discussion |
| | More profoundly, a scientific or evolutionary analysis of fanaticism might ask what use it was to fanatics and the answer is clearly that sometimes it was very useful indeed - at least to their surviving relatives and to their tribe... | | | Since 2003, Godfrey-Smith, 40, has divided his time between Australian National University in Canberra, where he has been professor of philosophy, and Harvard, where he has been visiting professor of philosophy. | | | Re: Justice Stephen G. Breyer on Constitutional Interpretation: I agree with an important caveat. |
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| | Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher |
| | The book was written five years before Descartes was born and in it he says: "Who so itcheth to Philosophy must set to work by putting all things to the doubt." | | | It is an interesting fact that here, at the close of the 16th Century, a man, closed in on all sides by the authority of priestly tradition, makes what might be termed a philosophical survey of the world which the science of the time was disclosing. | | | In his book The Expulsion of the 'Triumphant Beast' he flays the pedantries he finds in Catholic and Protestant cultures. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_kessler/giordano_bruno.html
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| | Thottbot World of Warcraft: Philosopher's Stone |
| | And i say egyptian because the emerald tablet is said to lie between the piramid of Giza and two other nearby ones. | | | The philosophers stone is not a reference to anything other than the original alchemic myth of something that could turn lead into gold among other things. | | | The Philosopher's stone was an actual concept back when alchemy was still being practiced... |
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http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5757
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| | Maverick Philosopher - |
| | But how can it be a reasoned belief if the argumentation the skeptic employs is faulty? | | | Curiously, I found this same argument in the Indian philosopher Nagarjuna. | | | There are problems, but their answers must not conflict with the actual use of words, for it is the actual use of words that gives them meaning, and a question or answer formulated in defiance of that use lacks sense. |
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| | LiveScience.com - Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God |
| | 09:31 am ET Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God | | | LiveScience.com - Atheist Philosopher, 81, Now Believes in God | | | Participants were Flew; Varghese; Israeli physicist Gerald Schroeder, an Orthodox Jew; and Roman Catholic philosopher John Haldane of Scotland's University of St. Andrews. |
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| | BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time - Greatest Philosopher |
| | What do you think of the reasons that others have given? | | | Find out who won the vote and who made it into the top ten. | | | You might be surprised who some of the celebrities we questioned chose as their greatest philosopher. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher.shtml
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| | Maverick Philosopher |
| | I do not think Nietzsche was a religious man, but he was an intensely spiritual man. I am degraded from grading papers all week. | | | The world may be a divine artifact, but it certainly is no human artifact. | | | (I speculate that it is because of the Death of God in Nietzsche’s sense that some philosophers recently have been toying with the wacky idea that we can take over a considerable range of divine tasks. |
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| | The Conservative Philosopher - |
| | As I've said many times in my blogs (this one and AnalPhilosopher), I respect religion and am grateful for my Judeo-Christian heritage. | | | I'm an atheist and a Darwinist, but, because I'm also a philosopher and a conservative, I find myself on the side of design theorists on the question of science education. | | | If philosophers and scientists can debate design theory, why can't high-school students? |
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http://www.conservativephilosopher.com
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| | Ask a Philosopher! |
| | Since then, we have responded to many thousands of questions submitted from all over the world. | | | Submit your question to Pathways and we'll see what we can do to help you think about your problem more clearly. | | | There's nothing more frustrating then finding yourself stuck with a philosophical question or problem and not knowing how to approach it. |
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http://www.philosophypathways.com/questions/feedback/feedback.html
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| | Herbert Spencer [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | He was initially an advocate of many of the causes of philosophic radicalism and some of his ideas (e.g., the definition of 'good' and 'bad' in terms of their pleasurable or painful consequences, and his adoption of a version of the 'greatest happiness principle') show similarities to utilitarianism. | | | His work was also particularly influential in the United States, where his book, The Study of Sociology, was at the center of a controversy (1879-80) at Yale University between a professor, William Graham Sumner, and the University's president, Noah Porter. | | | Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles for his political thought, primarily for his defense of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism, and his views have been invoked by 'libertarian' thinkers such as Robert Nozick. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/spencer.htm
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| | fUSION Anomaly. The Philosopher's Stone |
| | The word elixir is derived from the Arabic for philosopher's stone, al iksir. | | | I mean that if you possess the philosopher's stone and you were hungry, you could eat it. | | | Philosopher's Stone is one name for the fungus |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/philosophersstone.html
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| | Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Though a Christian philosopher whose work in theology is well-known and respected, his philosophical writings do not rely upon theological concepts, and are appreciated by non-Christians and Christians alike. | | | Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century, both in the unusual breadth and depth of his philosophical scholarship and in the innovative nature of his thought. | | | He was awarded a scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in 1934, and afterwards was appointed to his first teaching position at Colmar, Alsace. |
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| | Karl Popper Philosopher |
| | He became critical of their logical positivism and their views on meaning and verification. | | | Popper further argued that the demarcation between science and non-science lies in the manner in which scientific theories make testable predictions and are given up when they fail their tests. | | | A discussion of Poppers philosophical views on science and criticisms are given on other pages. |
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| | Peter Suber, "Philosopher's Index" |
| | All the reviews published that year of that author's philosophical books (regardless of the books' publication dates) will be listed there. | | | Commonly used terms (like Ethics, God, Logic, and Truth) will bring a huge number of hits, including a large number of false positives. | | | Note that you must repeat your search in different volumes in order to find literature published in different years. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/philindx.htm
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| | Philosopher's Chess |
| | If two moves are made, they must both apply to the same enlightened philosopher (apart from mind-moves which obviously apply to all philosophers, enlightened or not). | | | Mind-moves are also disallowed if there are no philosophers or enlightened philosophers on the Field. | | | To make this clearer, here is a list of what a player who owns an enlightened philosopher may do in a single turn:- |
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http://www.chessvariants.com/40.dir/philosophers.html
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| | VOICES DOWN THE CORRIDOR |
| | Friederich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. | | | Existentialism - Existentialism is a philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. | | | This is particularly true when we use the Internet for our research because many people post their personal opinions or only know a sliver of the whole story. |
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http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webphilosopea.html
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | It was Russell's belief that by using the new logic of his day, philosophers would be able to exhibit the underlying "logical form" of natural language statements. | | | What we normally take to be inferred entities (for example, enduring physical objects) are then understood to be "logical constructions" formed from the immediately given entities of sensation, viz., "sensibilia." It is only these latter entities that are known non-inferentially and with certainty. | | | Russell's conception of philosophy arose in part from his idealist origins. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell
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| | [ Socrates Cafe : philosopher.org ] |
| | For those who don't seem satisfied with Socrates Café style of discussion, encourage them to form their own groups so they can promote their own kinds of philosophical inquiry. | | | Remember: this is a community of philosophical inquirers. | | | He never charged other people and he did not promise to "lead" people to a specific truth; rather, he inspired people to discover and articulate their own unique truths by their own lights. |
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http://www.philosopher.org/soccaf.html
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| | The American Philosophical Association |
| | Details about the position, and the committee’s timetable, are given in the following ad text. | | | Philosophers living in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina need help in re-establishing their personal and professional lives. | | | If you are a philosopher who has suffered directly from Katrina's devastation, and you are able to read this message, please let us know, and let us know also how things stand with other colleagues who may not now have access to telecommunications. |
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| | Philosopher - definition of Philosopher in Encyclopedia |
| | The word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom." | | | Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames -- some by their contemporaries, others by historians. | | | This article is part of the Influential Western Philosophers series |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Philosopher
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| | This "new philosophical college" is also called by Boyle the "Invisible College" later in the letter. | | | The other humane studies I apply myself to, are natural philosophy, the mechanics and husbandry, according to the principles of our new philosophical college... | | | Divers little essays, both in verse and prose, I have taken pains to scribble upon several subjects. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Boyle.html
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| | Dallas Philosopher's Forum |
| | Subjects can be anything philosophically related such as ethics, politics, science, history, religion, meaning, or even standard philosophical fare such as epistemology or ontology. | | | Lectures typically last between 30 and 50 minutes and talks are followed by an open question and answer period. | | | The movement of the concept of sympathy from its occult and cosmological significance to its modern psychological and emotional significance as a bond uniting individuals was part of this refiguring of the human person. |
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http://www.philosophersforum.org
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| | How Can Bush Say Christ Is His Favorite Philosopher? |
| | Go back and have Laura read your Bible to you, George. | | | How can a man who stated Christ was his favorite philosopher pursue such a policy? | | | Five seconds after he blurted that exclamation, the easy going smirk returned to his face and he added, "Because he changed my life." Well, the thought was fun while it lasted. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1168.htm
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| | Greg’s infectious passion for music has helped inspire some of his past young students to continue their own musical studies at the collegiate level and beyond. | | | "Throughout it all there are some tell-tale signs of your philosophical inclinations. | | | in 1991, but has since philosophically lived a life of music. |
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| | Descartes |
| | Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, was published in 1641, designed for the philosopher and for the theologian. | | | Harriot's work on equations, however, may indeed have influenced Descartes who always claimed, clearly falsely, that nothing in his work was influenced by the work of others. | | | René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html
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| | Middleton Cheney Primary School Philosophy Group |
| | Philosopher's Island is a story which asks questions. | | | We would love to hear from any other groups who are interested in discussing philosophical ideas. | | | We are a group of children aged 7-11. |
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| | Radio National - The Philosopher's Zone Home Page |
| | Arthur C. Danto, one of the most significant philosophers in the English-speaking world, has evolved an theory of what art is and how we can know it when we see it. | | | But then, Eastern philosophies are sealed off from each other as well: of the two great Asian philosophical traditions, the Indian knows nothing of the Chinese and the Chinese often lumps the Indian with the European. | | | At a time when cinema, literature and other aspects of western culture are becoming increasingly open to Asian influence, western philosophy remains almost entirely sealed off from eastern traditions. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/philosopher
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| | Philosopher Jokes |
| | A man does a good deed and as a reward his guardian angel appears and offers him the answer to any question he wishes to ask. | | | It would be an interesting exercise to count all the fallacies in this "argument." (It's really awful, isn't it?) Therefore p. | | | In fact, the philosopher realized it was the same objection in every case - he had found the perfect philosophical move to make in conferences and colloquia. |
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http://www.as.miami.edu/phi/jokes.htm
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| | The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: In Memoriam: Joel Feinberg |
| | Permit me a personal note, on the sad occasion of the passing of this splendid philosopher and human being. | | | I first met Joel in 1994, shortly after he had taken emeritus status at Arizona, when the Department was looking for a law-and-philosophy scholar. | | | That, on top of his major philosophical contributions, he was also a caring mentor of dozens of graduate students and young philosophers means that he will long be remembered with both intellectual admiration and genuine affection and gratitude. |
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http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001021.html
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| | This is done so that the marked stick will not remain in the same place. | | | The philosopher will then wait for one stick, then the other. | | | The philosopher will then swap the sticks in its hands and return them. |
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| | Great Theosophists--Paracelsus: Philosopher (20 of 29) |
| | Although the philosophical doctrines of Paracelsus sprang from the same source as modern Theosophy, a difficulty arises from the differences in the terms used. | | | But the true philosopher has learned how to control them by the power of the Supreme Creator within himself. | | | Man's first task, therefore, is to know himself. |
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| | Locke |
| | He studied and wrote on philosophical, scientific, and political matters throughout his life, in a voluminous correspondence and ample journals, but the public works for which he is best known were published in a single, sudden burst. | | | Although he completed a philosophical education at Oxford, John Locke declined the offer of a permanent academic position in order to avoid committing himself to a religious order. | | | Having also studied medicine, he served for many years as private physician and secretary to Anthony Ashley Cooper, the first Earl of Shaftesbury and one of the Lord Proprietors of the Carolina Colonies. |
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