“The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.” WorldHas BeensHardPhilosophyRealitySpiritDiesTraditionPhilosophicalImperfectRepresentationSuperficialPlato Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.” WayImportantAmericaSituationInformationExpressionTraditionPhilosophicalResponsePassingPassingsOral Tradition Author:August Wilson
“This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.” InspirationalAgeEarthEnlightenmentTraditionPhilosophicalJewProphecyNew AgeDecemberMessiahConvergenceAquarius Author:Dan Brown
“If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.” IfsThinkingTryingFirstsPersonsSaidSpeakTeachingActivityEssentialsTraditionPhilosophicalAccidentsBiographiesLinkedFirst PersonHeidegger Author:Jacques Derrida
“I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.” SeemsAgeMiddleTraditionPhilosophicalBoundsBrilliantAstronomyEnormousUnfortunateMiddle AgesExponents Author:Philip Kitcher
“There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.” PlayFormLanguageWrittenCenturyBeatsTraditionPhilosophicalVersesEchoesPopeStrictCandidRhymingCouplets Author:Mark Ravenhill
“The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Platonism which is the main philosophical tradition of late antiquity.” IdeasInterestingLateTraditionImportancePhilosophicalImpactHistoricalFoundersAntiquity Author:Peter Adamson
“Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.” ChristianityBehaviorTraditionPhilosophicalEverydayErasLive Your LifeEmphasis Author:Larry Hurtado
“Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered a man who posed questions that pointed Justin [Martyr ] in a new direction.” MenChristianBecomingTraditionPhilosophicalVariousTestimonyMartyrJustinNew Directions Author:Larry Hurtado
“It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from Aristotle, that it is not limited to a very few perfect individuals.” BelieveIndividualI BelievePerfectTraditionPhilosophicalContrast Author:Alexander Nehamas
“Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!” PastInterestConcernTraditionPhilosophicalIntentionNostalgicSubtlety Author:Thomas Koner
“In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Christian traditions and I was astonished to find in those writings philosophical thought of great power and sophistication. These writings completely blew away all my opinions about what I had taken to be the irrationality or immaturity of religious ideas, opinions which were and still are fashionable in many intellectual and literary circles today.” WritingTodayChristianReligiousOpinionTeachTakenIntellectualTraditionPhilosophicalWesternFashionableGreat PowerSophisticationImmaturityIrrationality Author:Jacob Needleman
“Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.” MadeIdeasReligiousChristianityProductsEnlightenmentTraditionPhilosophicalHumanismGreekWho We AreOur SocietyJudaismGreat Religious Author:Jan Peter Balkenende
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” KnowledgeEuropeTraditionPhilosophicalSeriesPlatoCharacterizationFootnotes Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.” ThinkingPersonsMatterChoicesNatureAnimalEthicsTraditionPhilosophicalInjuryCustomsVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsRootedTormentVegetarianismVegetarian HealthAnimal WorldAnimal LifeHalosThinking ManVegan HealthAnimals In NatureMoral EthicsNature And AnimalsThinking Person Author:Albert Schweitzer
“The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.” MenHumansDoeSeemsValuesDealsTraditionPhilosophicalAccidentsPermanentPhenomenonSquaresPastimeHuman Thought Author:Peter Medawar