Certainly, the founders and sages of this religion were less dogmatic than their modern-day epigones. From LearnThat.org.
I'll bet you didn't know that, after reading Bérubé's latest post about thought,I now aspire to be referred to as an "epigone" of some yet-to-be-determined person. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Joi Ito pointed me to Epeus 'epigone - Kevin Marks weblog. From Wordnik.com. [Wiki, blogs, weak ties and what you need to know right now] Reference
"That sunnily amiable and almost indecently fertile epigone" as Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [The Idealised and Naturalistic View of Reality: Early 20th Century German Literature Laureates] Reference
She is not even an epigone of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork. From Wordnik.com. [Still More On Miers] Reference
Maybe I should aspire to be the antipodean epigone of some Indian-Ocean sailor/literary critic?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
I wrote a long paper last fall which you can find here in which I make out Gore as an epigone of Heidegger. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
He is no longer just the arch mannerist, the etiolated epigone of Michelangelo, perverse and stylised in equal measure. From Wordnik.com. [Bronzino's Medici portraits – review] Reference
The celebrated philosophical essays ( "The Myth of Sisyphus," The Rebel) are the work of an extraordinarily talented and literate epigone. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something Wrong with Sven] Reference
By the way, your pirate/booty rant sounds like something the Pastry Pirate would also write as well the bit about cool words like epigone. From Wordnik.com. [Wherein My Stream of Consciousness Becomes More Random Than Ever Before] Reference
I, his student and scientific epigone, ingested my unwavering atheism and a priori materialism along with the spinach at the parental dinner table. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Over Evolution] Reference
His current epigone, of course, is Bill O'Reilly, who's baleful rather than abject — and whose surly vox-pop shtick is as much a performance as actor Ed O'Neill's was. From Wordnik.com. [The Murdoch Touch] Reference
And so the friend referred to in my previous post & other NYT epigones would say who am I (the NYT epigone) gonna believe, the NYT with all its resources or you (i.e., me)?. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Rosen made quite a few errors in his NYT Magazine article about John Paul Stevens.] Reference
After all, who, in a social community that places so high a value on originality, wants to be thought of as a mere epigone, carrying out "normal science" in pursuit of a conventional "paradigm"?. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin's Revolution] Reference
But then neither did Fichte and Schelling and Kant and Hegel and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and Heidegger; but their differences are family feuds, and the same is true of their "Catholic" epigone. From Wordnik.com. [Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission] Reference
It's worth keeping in mind, when comparing the original Producers to its shiny new epigone, that Brooks and the audience for his film, when it first came out, were old enough to have fought the Germans. From Wordnik.com. [Double Take] Reference
If in many respects he was an epigone who selected from the immense heritage of his predecessors, he nevertheless codified their wisdom for succeeding generations, making considerable improvements in their views of anatomy and physiology. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Doctor] Reference
Epeus 'epigone: Fear of the new - the Internet, Tea, and MapReduce. From Wordnik.com. [Dadblog] Reference
He is neither a precursor nor an epigone, neither a forerunner nor a late-comer. From Wordnik.com. [Rashi]
Hegel's famous epigone Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) had a field day with Hegel's insights. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Titian he is, as his latest biographer, Señor Manuel B. Cossio, names him, "the last epigone of the Italian Renaissance.". From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
Palmer's friend, the pioneering musicologist William Austin, lamented how easily Palmer had been pigeonholed as an epigone of Roy Harris. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
Links for 2009-08-15 - Epeus 'epigone: How Twitter works in theory Kevin Marks does a rockstar job of conveying the essence of Twitter (tags: Technology twitter) Spot. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
How Twitter works in theory | Epeus 'epigone: There is much in this commentary of Twitter which I support, particularly the concepts of flow and the overlapping social networks. From Wordnik.com. [Stilgherrian] Reference
One must imagine that any true paragon of language (or even a mere epigone) had begun, not nodding, but violently shaking his head by the time he had gotten halfway through Mrs. Feinsilver's article. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
And while Judt has few good words for Margaret Thatcher, he might try to see that she compares favorably with her epigone Blair at every point, not least in her far less servile attitude toward Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It never entered any one's head to ask if I had renounced "Trotskyism, " as I was asked thousands of times during the period of the epigone decline, by the Cachins, Thalmanns, and others of the hangers-on of the October revolution. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
Rafael Trujillo, installed by the United States in 1930; ruled as absolute dictator until his assassination in May 1961; a son of this land, he was also a grotesque epigone of the worst in European tyrants (though few went as far as Trujillo in naming a city after himself). From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
The episode of the August bloc has been included in all the -anti-Trotsky" text-books of the epigone period. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
Of course the epigone then dismiss the ‘net, but they now they find themselves defensive & close-minded in so doing. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Rosen made quite a few errors in his NYT Magazine article about John Paul Stevens.] Reference
What makes this especially interesting apart from Black’s role as a Murdoch epigone is that Richard Perle is involved in the scam up to his kneecaps, if not higher, so there is more fun in that direction as well. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » The Spin That Won’t Die] Reference
Epeus' epigone: A load of Thunderer. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Attractor » 2009 » March] Reference
General BetrayUs is a Caesarian epigone. From Wordnik.com. [House GOP Moving To Condemn MoveOn.org Ad] Reference
Is it wrong to aspire to epigone status?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
He is the epigone brother -- little brother. From Wordnik.com. [Guerilla Prince] Reference
But Rehberg was much more than a Kantian epigone. From Wordnik.com. [August Wilhelm Rehberg] Reference
May the Lord protect authors from their epigone. From Wordnik.com. [Aiken on Mills] Reference
Vocabulary word of the week epigone - ep-i-gohn - noun. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week #13] Reference
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