Sentence examples for Intellectual inheritance of from inspiring English sources

Crushed (at least in memory), he felt that a line had been crossed, permanently separating the high-minded, essentially intellectual inheritance of the Revolution from the American future.

(Haakonssen 1996, Moore and Silverthorne 1983, Moore 2006) Through them and others, including direct exposure to Pufendorf's own, often reprinted works, natural law thought also became part of the intellectual inheritance of the American Revolution and constitutionalism.

We have, in Western Civilization, an intellectual inheritance, an inheritance of jurisprudence, that we kind of need in order to know what we stand for — not in a rah-rah way, but in an internal way.

"It's an incredibly important part of our intellectual inheritance," says Stephen Macedo *87, director of the University Center for Human Values.

Hirsi Ali claims a direct line of intellectual inheritance from the Dutch Enlightenment, and says she is merely laying claim as a Dutch person to freedoms won for her fellow citizens starting in the 17th century.

Around this time, however, partly in response to the challenge of T. B. Macaulay's criticism of his father's "On Government" and partly the result of his own reflections on his intellectual inheritance, Mill developed a revised version of utilitarian theory.

Because ancient cosmic myths had been part of the Israelite intellectual inheritance, as seen in literary usages throughout Scriptures, the impact of such ideas was to reinvigorate the mythic elements in Judaism.

The ancient world looks as if it is populated by people "just like us", not least because it is the great minds of the classical world – Virgil, Homer, Plato, Cicero and the rest – who have informed so much of our intellectual inheritance, from the humanists onwards.

People's intellectual inheritance is deeply dependent upon a certain point of view".

James was confronting the collapse of the 19th century's trust that Western societies embodied an intellectual inheritance that would improve the whole world.

A lazy and lacklustre student, Nichols had a quick mind and a formidable intellectual inheritance.