In vain did some philosophers assert, while suppressing their groans in the midst of sufferings, that pain was not an evil at all.

The world and humanity are subject to divine providence, but the Byzantine philosophers asserted the need for free-will and self-determination.

But everything the philosopher asserts about man is basically no more than a statement about man within a very limited time span.

In pre-industrial societies philosophers generally asserted that a clear division of labour in political affairs was unavoidable and beneficial.

He certainly did not mean, as later philosophers would assert, that he was self-subsistent Being.

Yet the answer is easy, since all philosophers assert with one voice that mind is the king of heaven and earth-in reality they are magnifying themselves.

The philosophers assert that they are eternal, because, they say, "nothing can be created from nothing."

Logical positivist philosophers, such as Rudolf Carnap and Alfred Ayer, assert that existentialists are often confused about the verb "to be" in their analyses of "being".

In the millennia before Perrault published his book, most natural philosophers asserted that there was not enough precipitation to account for the flow in rivers and springs.

Neo-conservative philosophers asserted that 'the consciousness of nationhood is the highest form of political consciousness'(see Gilroy, 1987, p. 44).