11 sentences with 'philosophers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word philosophers and other words derived from it.
• « For Chinese philosophers, there are two forces in the cosmos that act in balance: yin (symbolizing cold and stillness) and yang (representing heat and movement). »
• « Unlike the Greeks and Romans, the ancient Hebrews were not known for being scientists or philosophers or conquerors. It was their religion, Judaism, that proved to be of crucial importance in world history, both in its own right and as the religious root of Christianity and Islam. »
• « The most famous Greek philosophers - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle - were either natives of Athens (Socrates and Plato) or studied and taught in Athens (Aristotle). »
• « One such hetairai, Aspasia, was the companion of Pericles and was a full member of the elite circle of philosophers, scientists and politicians at the top of Athenian society. »
• « The word 'philosophy' literally means 'love of knowledge', and in the ancient world the people we might identify as Greek 'scientists' were simply regarded as philosophers by their fellow Greeks, who happened to be particularly interested in how the world worked and what things were made of. »
• « Hellenistic philosophy departed greatly from the concerns of the Greek philosophers of the Classical Age. »
• « Because philosophers were discouraged from studying politics, as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle had done, they turned instead to investigations of personal ethics, of how to live one's life so as to be happy, even if a broader kind of social justice remained elusive. »
• « Enterprising scholars - many of them Jewish philosophers living in North Africa and Spain - translated Aristotle's work on logic from Arabic into Latin. Later, Greeks from Byzantium came to Europe with the Greek originals and also translated them into Latin. »
• « In other words, reading the classics inspired Renaissance thinkers to emulate the great writers and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, creating poetry, philosophy and theory on a par with that of an Aristotle or a Cicero. »