Sentence examples for Intellectual obligation from inspiring English sources

Celebrate the courage of the people is a duty while to refuse naive and simplistic emotional analyses is an intellectual obligation.

There will always be those who may not know even the meaning of ''obligation.'' Still, one can recommend this book as either an introduction to or reminder of Lionel Trilling, one of the few intelligent men of our time toward whose work, however opaque on occasion, an intellectual obligation exists.

Miss Goldin adds some useful definitions that explore the differences separating the decorative task from the more "intellectual" obligations of the easel painting.

Southern was a fides quarens intellectum (a faith seeking understanding), with all the active and intellectual obligations the two parts of that formula respectively involve.

The individual knower is now recognized as part of a community, with all the moral and intellectual obligations that this entails.

For while she speaks here of intellectual obligations and serious encounters, she also writes about fun--about what has set her free.

When a scientist runs an elaborate experiment in the attempt to confirm some hypothesis H, and she gathers more and more evidence that tends to bear on and confirm H, we tend to suppose that she has an intellectual duty or obligation to follow the evidence wherever it goes and to believe in accord with that evidence.

With fellow South African writer Nadine Gordimer, he had embraced the intellectual's obligation to make "the essential gesture" of critically intervening in the nation's political and intellectual life and 10 years after South Africa's first democratic elections, he looks back at the Dakar meeting as a watershed.

Since 2007, as India and the EU started negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement that threatens to impose intellectual property obligations greater than those required by the WTO, she has been working on legal and technical analysis of the FTA negotiating text for public interest groups and networks of people living with HIV.

Such universal use of open source software ensures that an MP can be produced as cheaply as possible and without any patent or intellectual property obligations.

For this reason, he said, science has the intellectual and moral obligation to ask big questions and pursue lofty goals – even when the technology may not yet exist to answer those questions and achieve those goals.