Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Ancient ethics always dealt with three questions. Modern ethics usually deals with only one, or at the most two. The three questions… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
“in modern philosophy, the first glimpse of the true view of the conception of ‘might is right’ as applying to government is… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We saw in the preceding section how Heidegger identifies Plato’s transformation of A2 Un-concealment Truth into R2 Correspondence Truth with its concomitant… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“In a move that is at odds with what I am calling the Unmooring thesis, Heidegger wants to show that modern philosophy… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“It happens the second you leave the reservation. Not for a vacation. Not for a resort where they speak English and bring… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“For the Greeks, values existed a priori and marked out the exact limits of every action. Modern philosophy places its values at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“They are trying to be significant in their universe—trying to mean something more than a random collision of molecules. Though modern philosophy… — Rory Noland Copy Share Image
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
