Sentence examples for As apprehended from inspiring English sources

Among major thinkers, the most notable representative of rational ethics is Kant, who held that the way to judge an act is to check its self-consistency as apprehended by the intellect: to note, first, what it is essentially, or in principle a lie, for example, or a theft and then to ask if one can consistently will that the principle be made universal.

These passions are acts, or movements, of the sensitive appetitive power, which are caused by external objects as apprehended by what Aquinas called the "estimative," or "cogitative" power.

Deliberation is limited to the role of a hypothetical transtemporal (and 'transworld', across possible situations) ideal observer-and-desirer, choosing so as to maximize the aggregate of desirabiliity, as apprehended from momentary perspectives (from which hedonic experience is, presumably, thought of as inseparable).

By the implicit terms of the Cartesian partition, science deals only with the material world, as apprehended through observation.

Following Shannon Jackson's discussion of the material and social supports necessary for art events to exist and expand, Faini reads arias as apprehending a mode of antagonistic engagement and offers a theory of collaborative poetics that unsettles the effects of the colonial difference in military occupation.

Using data is important, as apprehending significant details like where leads are coming from and which potential users are clicking on ads can help inform your strategy.

By contrast to phenomenalist realism, the Sautrāntika view of perceptual consciousness may be characterized as representationalism: it sees perception as apprehending its objects indirectly, through the mediation of aspects (ākāra) representative of their objects (Dreyfus 1997, 335 & 380 381).

The priority now will be to ensure that anyone else who poses an imminent threat to the public is apprehended as soon as possible.

"Obviously we would like the person apprehended as soon as possible," he added.

The wife of Niger's agriculture minister was among those apprehended, as was a bank director and a policeman.

He therefore proposed that "pleasure" picks out momentary experiences not by any specific introspected quality but rather by their intrinsic desirability, as may be apprehended at the time of experiencing (Sidgwick 1907, pp. 125-31).