Philosophers
A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy. The term philosopher comes from the Ancient Greek: φιλόσοφος, romanized: philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras (6th century BCE).In the classical sense, a philosopher was someone who lived according to a certain way of life, focusing upon resolving existential questions about the human condition; it was not necessary that they discoursed upon theories or commented upon authors. Those who most arduously committed themselves to this lifestyle would have been considered philosophers, and they typically followed a Hellenistic philosophy. In a modern …
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CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
troops against a defender, with many military philosophers saying that defence is the strongest form of …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
troops against a defender, with many military philosophers saying that defence is the strongest form of …
CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 March 2024 English
to the amount of cops on the street, were drawn from the city’s rapidly City dwellers’ relationship to the to the cost of rent, policy makes and growing unhoused population. …
are expanding their foothold in years since, philosophers, psy- The individual...depends so much upon …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English
tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also explores ideas from modern philosophers Jan Zwicky, Gillian Rose, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, and from contemporary poets Don Domanski …
philosophical universe, with new readings of philosophers like Wittgenstein, Descartes, Plotinus, Eriugena … the side of conversa- tion. Evagrius and other philosophers of interiority have insisted that contemplative … and in the writings of such twentieth-century philosophers as Jan Zwicky, Simone Weil and Gillian Rose …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 February 2024 English
Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada’s political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately …
the pre- progressive classical liberalism of philosophers such as John Locke, who emphasized a need to …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …
development. REDEFINING LIFE Classical Greek philosophers defined the world in terms of order ver- sus …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English
One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …
military domain,1 or more general concern from philosophers revitalizing the lost concept of human judgement …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 5 December 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
archival and interpretive recovery of women philosophers who were foundational for the Phenomenological … William E. Seager is one of the world’s leading philosophers of mind. His impactful research addresses foundational …
Yellowhead Institute · 23 November 2023 English
being bombed, starved, dehydrated, “voluntarily emigrated,” and blockaded into collective death and How to characterize the carnage? For weeks, UN submission – a continuation of the decades-long Experts and hundreds …
non-Europeans’ bodies for and children,” while European philosophers like Georg 2 A Yellowhead Institute Brief Hegel …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 1 November 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
archival and interpretive recovery of women philosophers who were foundational for the Phenomenological … William E. Seager is one of the world’s leading philosophers of mind. His impactful research addresses foundational …
