The 4-year-olds demonstrate the deep roots of an ethical tension that has divided philosophers for centuries.
Ancient leaders historically turned to moral philosophers for education, guidance, and to frame strategic challenges.
The authors of these books were clerics and philosophers, or charlatans out to get rich quick.
Pope, when explaining his views to me, invoked not Rand but the great political philosophers.
She studied botany and ornithology, and established a salon to support philosophers, including Voltaire.
Perceptions of Promise was created through a collaboration between artists, philosophers, scientists, and others.
This comment on Feminist Philosophers articulates my point perfectly and I can relate.
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Writers deprecated the Latin of the medieval philosophers and tried to write like Cicero and Virgil.
For academic philosophers, once lonely and contemplative creatures, the business ethics boom has been a bonanza.
As is the way with philosophers, many have often come to diametrically opposite conclusions.
Autonomy takes up the first four chapters, and non-philosophers will probably find this hard going.
Before 1900, thinkers who analysed economic phenomena included philosophers, theologians, legal scholars, mathematicians or scientists.
One age has taken away the reflective inquiry that was the domain of philosophers in the past.
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As to whether such disparities should matter, that question has puzzled philosophers at least since the Enlightenment.
The left distrusted that distinction and the right misappropriated it, while philosophers continue to pick it over.
The drafters of the constitution were steeped in the liberal writings of Enlightenment philosophers and legal scholars.
Moral philosophers examine areas that modern-day domain experts too often ignore: human values, core beliefs and character.
How often have philosophers ruminated about how many trillions of dead invertebrates are swallowed up by the earth?
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Derman rests much of his current world view on the writings of philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Baruch Spinoza.
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Claudius Ptolemy and Galen, respectively an astronomer and a physician, and Plotinus and Philo, who were both philosophers.
He argues that it is a lingering ghost of the Judaeo-Christian worldview among philosophers who ought to know better.
He makes references to philosophers he studied at Harvard, particularly John Locke and Rousseau and their ideas on freedom.
But this modest eccentric had an unparalleled ability to bring philosophers crashing to earth when they least expected it.
This conflict, which continues to vex the cleverest philosophers, is old and deep.
He is President of the Dining Philosophers and the Lead Organizer of PennApps, the largest college hackathon in the nation.
Although there has been little public discussion of the morality of suicide, philosophers have always been fascinated by the subject.
Like Plato, Goethe or Berlin, writers and philosophers had long drifted in and out of public view, holding forth on life in general.
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Brown based the grammar for his ten-thousand-word language, called Loglan, on the rules of formal predicate logic used by analytical philosophers.
But there is also the more fundamental question long pondered by moral philosophers: Do artists' misdeeds matter in evaluating their work?
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John Searle has long argued that there is a way out of this dilemma, but some philosophers are not so sure.
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