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“Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.”

Years Has Beens Political Subjects Philosophical Motherhood Disputes Surrogates

Author:Thomas Frank

“In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.”

Men Way Facts Humanity Individual Subjects Philosophical Considering Wholeness Anthropology Investigators

Book:On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity

Source: On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity

“A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.”

Views Modern Subjects Evolution Honor Philosophical Endure Philosopher Critical Doctrine Analysis Assumption Biology Metaphysical Crucifixion Biologist High Places Critical Analysis

Author:George Trumbull Ladd

“The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.”

World Humans Soul Self Body Human Beings Subjects Philosophical Property Boundaries Psychological Metaphysical Human Body Human Soul

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.”

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Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.”

“It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.”

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

Men Life Subjects Creatures Philosophical Privilege Absurdity Living Creatures

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil