Writers deprecated the Latin of the medieval philosophers and tried to write like Cicero and Virgil.
The drafters of the constitution were steeped in the liberal writings of Enlightenment philosophers and legal scholars.
He is President of the Dining Philosophers and the Lead Organizer of PennApps, the largest college hackathon in the nation.
Those in the West looked to the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and historians, at least as far as the elite were concerned.
Documenta often plays up its cerebral side, and its latest crop of 180 participants includes philosophers and quantum physicists as well as artists.
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But philosophers and political theorists, some of whom (Hayek, Berlin, Popper and so on) once bestrode public debate, these days scarcely get a look in.
Couldn't we also learn something from politicians, philosophers and social scientists?
During the period that goes from Aristotle to Adam Smith, there is an abundance of moral philosophers and jurists who have focused on distributive justice.
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At the workshop the philosophers and scientists each added his own gloss to neo-Darwinian reductive naturalism or materialistic neo-Darwinian reductionism or naturalistic materialism or reductive determinism.
The first is the attempt to construct a logically compelling theory of self-interested altruism and reciprocity, enlisting anthropologists, Enlightenment philosophers and today's game theorists to do so.
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.
Unlike earlier philosophers and idealists, who believed that their languages could perfect humanity, modern conlangers tend to create their languages primarily as a hobby and a form of self-expression.
Throughout the ages philosophers and theologians have debated this question with respect to Judeo-Christian faiths, in which dogma holds that the world was created from the void, creation ex nihilo.
Bogle liberally quotes other financial commentators, philosophers and professors.
While most religions teach that vices are sinful temptations, today some philosophers and medical professionals question that belief, giving us hope for guilt-free trips to Ko Pha-Ngan, Thailand, known for its bacchanalian Full Moon parties.
It is our hope that the academians, philosophers and policy makers will finally realize that it is the children whose hearts and brains we must tap with that Culture of Peace versus a Culture of War.
The Singularity Institute is comprised of scientists, philosophers and philanthropists from places such as the Research Triangle and Silicon Valley, and universities such as Harvard and Stanford, said Michael Anissimov, media director at The Singularity Institute.
Explore the vast area on a golf cart, hopping on and off to see abbreviated operas from the Tang Dynasty days, laser shows on the lake, elaborate man-made waterfalls, as well as murals and statues of historical figures, philosophers and poets.
And this includes the need for Islamic philosophers and religious scholars to study how the Christian churches in the West have (largely though by no means completely) adapted to the findings of science and its implications for religious beliefs.
Over four centuries of scientific progress have convinced most professional philosophers and scientists of the validity of naturalism: the view that there is only one realm of existence, the natural world, whose behavior can be studied through reason and empirical investigation.
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Informing the conflict between the two branches of liberalism, as recalled by Sir Rhys, are two concepts of liberty which in modern times have received a good deal of attention from philosophers and have had considerable influence on government and politics.
Philosophers and mathematicians can debate what causes mean reversion, but in the case of the markets, it seems to be a "wisdom of crowds" phenomenon--the historic return represents the prices investors put on future corporate earnings, which tend to climb in the long run.
The last time I checked with biologists, philosophers and even politicians on both sides of the debates about abortion, stem cell research and cloning, they were pretty certain human individuals were defined by two sets of chromosomes (half from the male, half from the female) which were arranged in the one-celled zygote after fertilization.
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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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Extolled by poets and philosophers, instrumentalised both by Nazis and communists, Faust, together with Mephisto, seemed to be Germany made flesh.
Over the past century, materialism has gained an upper hand among philosophers, and it is certainly the common working-assumption of psychologists, neuroscientists and artificial-intelligence researchers.
We would have an influx of the engineers, technicians and mechanics McCrory is looking for, and a decrease of writers, sociologists, philosophers, thinkers and other liberal arts majors.
Humanist writers and philosophers of the era touted the prosperous Florentine Republic, with its ruling signoria council and trade guilds, as heir to the ideal classical civilizations of Athens and Rome, spurring civic pride.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
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But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
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