SEARCH RESULTS   Found 25 text references: 1. " Unlike the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, or the Athenian Stranger in the Laws, the true statesman need not be forced to take part in ruling a city, to turn from philosophy to politics.(65) For the Eleatic Stranger, the true statesman rules voluntarily,..." Source:   Kochin, Michael S. "Plato's Eleatic and Athenian sciences of politics" Review of Politics 61.1 Jan. 1 1999: 57-59 2. " The difference between the statesman and the philosopher is that the statesman believes that s/he is in possession of fully extrapolated knowledge,..." Source:   Kavka, Martin. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Cross Currents 49.4 Dec. 22 1999: 523 3. " The knowledge of just and workable relationships among dissimilars is what every philosopher, every artist, and every statesman has longed to attain." Source:   HOCKETT, CHARLES F. "FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 57.2 June 22 2000: 252 4. "... and "there was nothing constant except the perpetual change in everything." For British statesman and writer Edmund Burke, criticizing the philosophers of the French Revolution, "It has been the misfortune (not as these gentlemen..." Source:   ROTHSCHILD, EMMA. "THE AGE OF INSUBORDINATION" Foreign Policy June 22 2000: 46 5. " He had proved his abilities as a soldier, as an administrator, as a publicist, as a statesman, as a master of the written and spoken word, and as a philosopher of democracy." Source:   Keegan, John. "His Finest Hour" U.S. News & World Report 128.21 May 29 2000: 50 6. "... because ye have lived in it." Francis Bacon (English philosopher and statesman, 1561-1626) And especially future-related wisdom quotations: * "The future is purchased by the present." Samuel Johnson (English lexicographer and critic, 1709-1784) ..." Source:   Lloyd, Bruce. "The Wisdom of the World: Messages for the New Millennium" Futurist 34.3 May 1 2000: 42 7. " Precisely because of their predominantly contemplative orientation, good philosophers do not ordinarily have the kind of practical aptitude, experience and robustness that is needed in a statesman--however well some of them may, as philosophers, understand the world of political practice." Source:   Ryn, Claes G. "The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 4 8. " A sudden flowering of the arts and philosophy produced some of the greatest minds of Western culture, among them the playwright Sophocles (Oedipus the King), the philosopher Socrates, and the historian Herodotus." Source:   Brown, Bryan. "Ancient Greece: the birth of democracy: ancient Athenians wrote the book on government by the people" Junior Scholastic 107.4 Oct. 18 2004: 18-22 9. " It can never make a philosopher, nor a statesman, nor in any class of life an useful or rational man." Source:   Peacock, Thomas Love,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "What is utility?" Arts Education Policy Review 105.6 July 1 2004: 33-39 10. " Mills insisted that intellectuals who are committed to democracy should aspire neither to the role of philosopher-king, nor to that of adviser to the king." Source:   Kaye, Harvey J. "The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy" Progressive 6.8 Aug. 1 1999: 41 11. " This would save Arendt, and a number of postmodernist philosophers, from the embarrassment of having to say things like "totalitarianism is a profound indictment of the role of philosophy..." Source:   Herman, Louis. "Politics and Truth: Political Theory and the PostmodernChallenge" American Political Science Review v92.n3 Sept. 1 1998: 688-690 12. " In the final chapter, "The Philosophers," Allan explicates the role that these metaphors played in the Analects, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi and how they impact later developments in philosophy, literature, art, and aesthetics." Source:   Sellmann, James D. "The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue" Philosophy East and West 49.4 Oct. 1 1999: 527 13. " To put it differently, the conflict between philosophy and politics, between the philosopher and the polis, broke out because Socrates had wanted--not to play a political role--but to make philosophy relevant for the polis." Source:   Arendt, Hannah. "Philosophy and politics" Social Research 71.3 Sept. 22 2004: 427-455 14. " Even as John Dewey and some others performed the role of public philosophers, philosophy was becoming more and more remote from the concerns of the public -- in Wilson's words, "becoming as esoteric and..." Source:   GILES, JAMES. "The End of Philosophy" Cross Currents Mar. 22 2000: 68 15. " It contains seven chapters in addition to the introduction and wrap-up. Two contributors (including Ralph Hancock, the editor) are political scientists, two combine that specialty with philosophy, and the others are social and political philosophers, one of them also a Shakespeare scholar." Source:   BOWLES, DONALD. "America, the West, and Liberal Education" Perspectives on Political Science 29.1 Jan. 1 2000: 40 16. " To be sure, concepts are a central concern for philosophers, political theorists, sociological theorists, intellectual historians, linguists, and cognitive psychologists.(3) However, these scholars are primarily interested in concepts as they function in ordinary or philosophical contexts, not in the specialized realm of social science." Source:   Gerring, John. "What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences" Polity 31.3 Mar. 22 1999: 357 17. " In the name of this universal agenda, which I call "the ideal of the physician-philosopher," they spoke to social, philosophical--and even aesthetic--matters that were often far removed from their therapeutic activity." Source:   Vatan, Florence. "The "Poet-Philosopher" and the "Physician-Philosopher": a Reading of Baudelaire's Prose Poem "Assommons les pauvres!"" Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 Sept. 22 2004: 89-109 18. "... King exhibited a certain ambivalence about Marx, both of these figures as philosopher-activists attempted to engage in a merger of theory and social action, or what some refer to as praxis. " Source:   Baer, Hans A. "Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and thePhilosophy of Nonviolence" African American Review 32.n2 June 22 1998: 358-360 19. "... begin in ordinary life with the concerns, pressures, and facts of contemporary existence. (72) For Dewey, "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers,..." Source:   Sullivan, Michael,Solove, Daniel J. "Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy" Yale Law Journal 113.3 Dec. 1 2003: 687-742 20. " Rocker is a relief pitcher, after all, hardly a philosopher along the lines of Rodney King, who passes as a philosopher in America today." Source:   Knott, Tom. "Elian tops Rocker in psychobabble" Washington Times Apr. 28 2000: 1 21. " The early modern philosophers rejected orthodoxy only to attach their philosophizing to the ends of the demos in a new way; rather than teaching men how to attain heaven, the modern philosophers would teach..." Source:   Merrill, Clark A. "Leo Strauss's Indictment of Christain Philosophy" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 77 22. " The regime also sponsored "discussions" on philosophy, which aimed to show that Russia always had the most advanced philosophers and therefore kowtowing to foreigners, even if these were philosophers of the stature of a Kant or Hegel, was wrong." Source:   Kenez, Peter. "Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments1945-1957" Canadian Journal of History 34.3 Dec. 1 1999: 474 23. " Referring to a way of philosophizing that does not aspire to totalize the multitude of human discourses into a single system, the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo introduced the notions of 'weak ontology' and 'fragile thought', il pensiero debole. [21] Vattimo's..." Source:   Pallasmaa, Juhani. "HAPTICITY AND TIME" Architectural Review 207.1239 May 1 2000: 78 24. " Although extraordinarily popular, it is a very bad argument--so bad that the philosopher David Stove named it the winner of his "Competition to Find the Worst Argument in the World." It will be familiar to anyone who has studied philosophy:..." Source:   Franklin, James. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" New Criterion 18.10 June 1 2000: 29 25. " Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. [pound]55. 0 19 820716 6 Already before its publication, this book (we learn from the preface) had proved 'too historical for some theologians, too theological for some philosophers, and too theological and philosophical for some historians'." Source:   BURNS, J. H. "The common good in late medieval political thought. Moral goodness and material benefit" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.2 Apr. 1 2000: 402 back to top