Since ancient times, thinkers including the Greek astronomer Ptolemy believed in the existence of a huge continent on the South Pole.
VOA: special.2009.06.03
This is what distinguishes Aristotle from Machiavelli and all those later thinkers who take their bearings from Machiavelli.
这就是亚里士多德,与马奇亚维利的差别,还有那些稍后,以马奇亚维利为其主轴核心的思想家。
to be familiar with the major works and thinkers and literature, music, and art of, uh, Western history.
了解西方历史上主要著作、思想家、文学、音乐和艺术。
Others say the activists are independent thinkers who will oppose any politician they see as supporting big government and big spending.
VOA: special.2010.03.06
To be sure, Machiavelli focuses on key aspects of political reality which are often ignored by thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.
事实上马奇亚维利所专注的,政治现实观点,是其它思想家所常遗漏,像柏拉图和亚里士多德。
And,he says that is good news because the world needs creative thinkers to help solve increasingly complex problems in the future.
VOA: special.2009.04.24
Philosophers who help this position: people like Thomas Jefferson, George Bernard Shaw, Ronald Dworkin and other leading thinkers.
致力于此的哲学家:,有托马斯杰斐逊,萧伯纳,德沃金及其他杰出思想家。
This month is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential thinkers in science history.
VOA: special.2009.02.25
His idea was that children are active thinkers; they're trying to figure out the world.
皮亚杰认为,儿童是主动思考者,他们试图去理解世界
"Bucky" Fuller,as he was known, was one of the most unusual thinkers of the twentieth century.
VOA: special.2010.05.30
How would you have had the great Roman philosophers and thinkers?
伟大的罗马哲学家和思想家又是怎么来的
One of America's greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of "Leaves of Grass."
VOA: special.2009.04.12
They didn't say God because, of course, the Enlightenment thinkers were not so sure they believed in God, but they still seemed to believe in something they wanted to call a creator.
他们没有说是上帝,因为,当然,启蒙思想家们并不确定他们,是信仰上帝的,但是他们似乎仍旧,信仰所谓的造物主
Over the centuries,scientific thinkers worked to develop these devices and improve their accuracy and complexity.
VOA: special.2010.09.29
He takes it for granted that he is the most rational and systematic of all thinkers and raises questions about since we all take ourselves to be rational too raises questions about just how we know ourselves not to be paranoid delusives like Don Quixote.
他理所当然地认为,自己是所有思想者中最理性,最有条理的,他提出,既然我们也认为自己很理性,我们如何证明自己,不像堂吉诃德一样处于妄想之中呢?
A small group of thinkers,artists, scientists and industrial leaders disappears from society.
VOA: special.2010.06.06
In the case of great philosophers, however, better yet to preserve one's physical presence in order to inspire future generations of thinkers.
但对于伟大的哲学家来说,更好的用处是,保存他的原貌,以激励后世历代的思想者。
She is still one of the most loved, and hated,American thinkers.
VOA: special.2010.06.06
Among the great thinkers there is profound disagreement over the answers to even the most fundamental questions concerning justice concerning rights concerning liberty.
伟大的思想家之间,对答案却总有着深刻的意见相左,甚至是对于最基本的问题,像是有关正义,权利和自由。
It shows famous Greek thinkers and scientists.
VOA: special.2010.02.03
Naturally, all thinkers, to some degree, have read Aristotle through their own lenses.
当然,所有的思想家在某种程度上,都是透过他们自己的角度来读亚里士多德。
He underscores the importance of the state and society being able to identify and encourage talented and critical thinkers, adding that young people should be raised in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and civic engagement.
VOA: standard.2009.11.12
Which questions and which thinkers ? should one pick up for oneself?
哪些问题和哪些思想家,是必需认识的呢?
Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.
更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。
So the great political thinkers were typically engaged in the politics of their times and help in that way to provide us okay with models for how we might think about ours.
所以伟大的思想家,总会涉及他们当代的政治,并以此帮忙想出一些模式,让我们可以自省。
For thinkers like Tocqueville for example regimes are embedded in the deep structures of human history that have determined over long centuries the shape of our political institutions and the way we think about them.
举例来说,对于像托克维尔之类的思想家而言,政体内嵌于人类历史的结构深处,许多世纪以来决定了,我们政治机构的形态,及我们对它们的看法。
But the great thinkers were very far from being just so to speak detached intellectuals.
但是伟大思想家根本不是,所谓的隐世知识分子。
Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?
这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧?
Why study just these thinkers and not others?
为何只研读这些思想家,而不是其它人?
There are certainly echoes of this reading of Aristotle as a teacher of participatory republican government in the later writings of democratic thinkers from Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt.
有不少声音响应,这种对亚里士多德的解读,将他视为是参与式共和政府的恩师,例如日后民主思想家,托克维尔及,Hannah,Arendt的著作。
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