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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IOM: International Organization for Migration · 6 May 2024
WORLD MIGRATION REPORT 2024 The opinions expressed in the report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). [...] …
phrase “Knowledge is Power”, was first used by philosophers in the sixteenth century. In this age of instant …
Cato Institute · 2 May 2024 English
The Cato Institute has just published my Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation. The book is a non- fiction graphic novel. Think of it as the …
the future.” In a critique of my first book, philosophers Jon Elster and Hélène Landemore accuse me of …
Policy Exchange · 17 April 2024 English
The lecture, which I had the pleasure to hear delivered in January this year, was a tour de force, illuminating both the idea of human rights and also the ideal …
of law. These are both slippery concepts, and philosophers and constitutionalists alike are engaged in … unconstitutional, unlawful, indeed lawless way.10 IV. Philosophers of law disagree about the extent to which the …
Yoorrook Justice Commission · 11 April 2024 English
20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …
evolutionary process. So, 19th century scientists, philosophers, thinkers, adopted Charles Darwin’s theory of … was particularly heightened by certain German philosophers. And so, it was a given for Europeans and the …
Europe's Stories Project · 8 April 2024 English
Europe and Freedom Europe and Freedom Cover r5.qxp_Cover 08/04/2024 15:00 Page 1 DAHRENDORF Three essays on Europe and Freedom. [...] at the EUROPEAN Fifteen years of the Dahrendorf Programme. [...] …
exclusively on it’.34 While political theorists and philosophers engaged in epistemic debates about the (theoretical) …
ACUS: Atlantic Council of the United States · 2 April 2024 English
He will see China and the rise of China and the replacement of the liberal international order by a Sinocentric Tianxia order as one which will bring about the democratization …
I think folks who aren't Chinese political philosophers or political historians might not know. Can …
Yoorrook Justice Commission · 1 April 2024 English
20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …
evolutionary process. So, 19th century scientists, philosophers, thinkers, adopted Charles Darwin’s theory of … was particularly heightened by certain German philosophers. And so, it was a given for Europeans and the …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 27 March 2024 English
This article calls for a greater integration of moral psychology and political economy. While these disciplines were initially deeply intertwined, cross-disciplinary exchange became rare throughout the 20th century. More recently, …
morality were deeply in- tertwined. Worldly philosophers such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Marx …
CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology · 27 March 2024 English
1 7 In the social network realm, we’ve seen the beginning of a move toward decentralized social networks built on open standards to allow for a range of different types …
there being a risk of rogue AI originated with philosophers focused on catastrophic risk, years before the …
IIC: India International Centre · 23 March 2024 English
The speakers in the programme, ‘Civil Services and the Indian Constitution’, discussed the need of civil services, its role and place in the Indian Constitution, and the interaction between the …
learnings not only for artists, historians and philosophers but also for lawyers, judges, public functionaries … and Western religions, teachings of eminent philosophers, and insights from contemporary science into … learnings not only for artists, historians, and philosophers, but also for lawyers, judges, public functionaries …
