Sentence examples for a philosophical idea from inspiring English sources

This is a very rare achievement in contemporary poetry -- a philosophical idea treated, not glibly, obscurely or melodramatically, but with due seriousness and real intelligence.

There's a philosophical idea behind the work — the interaction between male and female principles in creation — but it can be appreciated on purely aesthetic and theatrical grounds.

Victimhood, in this series, is not merely a philosophical idea or a psychological identity, but also a condition open to variations of aesthetic style.

It's a philosophical idea of the most classical inspiration, the story of the Ring of Gyges from Book 2 of Plato's "Republic" (which Rohmer has a character, a philosophy teacher, cite in his "A Tale of Springtime," from 1990).

In 1825 he was the central figure in a church controversy when in his Kirkens gienmæle ("The Church's Reply") he accused the theologian H.N. Clausen of treating Christianity as merely a philosophical idea.

By the era of celebrity non-believers such Sextus the Doctor and Aetius, in the second century AD, atheism in the strict modern sense "had acquired full legitimacy as a philosophical idea".

Could dawn be an idea, almost a philosophical thought?

At the heart of my whimsical journey was an experiment that would test out a more philosophical idea: that what we experience in life is more important than what we bring with us.

The fundamental tendency in Western property law to agglomerate property rights in a single individual is probably not the product of the influence of a particular philosophical idea or the dominance of one social group over another or even of a balancing of social interests.

Indeed, the generic DCA scheme is an overall philosophical idea rather than a single algorithm.

No awareness of a single philosophical idea in these minds.