In the Modern Age, scientists adopted atomist theories, while materialist philosophers embraced Epicurus ' hedonist ethics and restated his objections to natural teleology.

Modern logic made it possible to articulate these points coherently as intended, and many philosophers hold that the word " nothing " does not function as a noun, as there is no object to which it refers.

Some post-World-War-Two Jewish philosophers are associated with major Jewish movements -- Modern Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reform Judaism.

Modern day physics-oriented philosophers have sometimes tried to answer the question of free will using the many-worlds interpretation, according to which every time there is quantum indeterminacy each possibility occurs and new universes branch off.

For an estimate of his work and his place among the philosophers of the 18th century see Victor Cousin's Philosophie sensualiste ( 1863 ); PL Lezaud, Résumés philosophiques ( 1853 ); FD Maurice, in his Modern Philosophy ( 1862 ), pp. 537 seq.

Modern philosophers define personhood as consciousness of the external world, in which a being sustains self-consciousness, self-determination, rational capacities, emotional expressions, willful direction, and communicative and social abilities.

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Chisholm read widely in the history of philosophy, and frequently referred to the work of Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and even Continental philosophers ( although the use he made of this material has sometimes been challenged ).

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Modern biblical criticism begins with the 17th century philosophers and theologians-Thomas Hobbes, Benedict Spinoza, Richard Simon and others-who began to ask questions about the origin of the biblical text, especially the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Old Testament-Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ).

Modern American public administration is an extension of democratic governance, justified by classic and liberal philosophers of the western world ranging from Aristotle to John Locke to Thomas Jefferson

A series of written debates between prominent theistic and nontheistic philosophers covering these issues and available in the Modern Library is titled " God or Blind Nature?

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Modern philosophers talk of ambiguity.

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Modern philosophical thought has very much been influenced by Christian philosophers such as St Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Modern use of AAC began in the 1950s with systems for users who had lost the use of speech following surgical procedures.

Modern writers tend to be slightly more critical of Agesilaus ' reputation and achievements, reckoning him an excellent soldier, but one who had a poor understanding of sea power and siegecraft.

Modern opponents of instruments do not make the same assessment of instruments as these writers, who argued that God had allowed David the “ evil ” of using musical instruments in praise.

Modern taxonomy is rooted in the work of Carolus Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Michael Collins, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, is generally considered the author who led the form into the Modern Age.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Modern genetics started with Gregor Johann Mendel, a German-Czech Augustinian monk and scientist who studied the nature of inheritance in plants.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.

Modern hackers who hold true to the hacker ethics — especially the Hands-On Imperative — are usually supporters of free and open source software.

Modern Orthodox Judaism developed in reaction to Reform Judaism, by leaders who argued that Jews could participate in public life as citizens equal to Christians, while maintaining the observance of Jewish law.

Rabbi Norman Lamm ( the Chancellor, Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva ", and former president of Yeshiva University, a major Modern Orthodox Jewish institution ) advocated that some ( although not all ) homosexuals should be viewed as diseased and in need of compassion and treatment, rather than willful rebels who should be ostracized.

Modern examples include the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and the pope of the Roman Catholic Church, who serves as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and is elected to a life term by the College of Cardinals.

As soon as Murray published her theory she received criticism from other historians who had studied the Early Modern witch trials.

The Morrígan (" phantom queen ") or Mórrígan (" great queen "), also written as Morrígu or in the plural as Morrígna, and spelt Morríghan or Mór-ríoghain in Modern Irish, is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have been considered a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.

Modern day Pakistan was conquered by Chandragupta Maurya, who overthrew the powerful Nanda Dynasty of Magadha and established Maurya empire: He conquered the trans-Indus region to the west, which was under Macedonian rule-annexing Balochistan, south eastern parts of Iran and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat and Kandahar provinces-and then defeated the invasion led by Seleucus I, a Greek general from Alexander's army.

Modern notable artists who have worked extensively in pastels include Fernando Botero, Francesco Clemente, Daniel Greene, Wolf Kahn, and R. B. Kitaj.

In writings from Ireland, the name Cruthin, Cruthini, Cruthni, Cruithni or Cruithini ( Modern Irish: Cruithne ) was used to refer to the Picts and to a group of people who lived alongside the Ulaid in eastern Ulster.

The band attributes the sessions to Anastasio, who discovered the concept in the films A Man Called Horse and Modern Primitives.

Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ), a pioneer of the scientific method who is considered to be the " Father of Modern Optics " and arguably one of the first scientists.

This categorization of Satanism ( which could be categorized in other ways, for example " Traditional " versus " Modern "), is not necessarily adopted by Satanists themselves, who usually would not specify which type of Satanism they adhere to.