Sentence examples for abandoned philosophy from inspiring English sources

After graduating, he published two ponderous-sounding studies, "The Athenian Spirit" and "The Wounds of Sparta," but soon abandoned philosophy for an even less secure occupation: playwriting.

In his 2008 book "Experiments in Ethics," the Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah described the loss of relevance that philosophers inflicted on themselves, beginning in the late 19th century, when they abandoned philosophy's ancient interest in messy human nature and retreated into the conceptual analysis of moral terms.

Wrinch, who published papers in Mind on, among other things, the theory of relativity, later abandoned philosophy for chemistry, teaching for many years at Smith College.

At the end of this volume, Berlin decides to abandon philosophy for the history of thought.

A stint as a teacher in Algiers during Algeria's war for independence led him to abandon philosophy for social science.

As a result, Gadamer decided to abandon philosophy for classical philology.

According to Callicles, this means that Socrates must change his practices to gain insight: "This is the truth of the matter, as you will know if you abandon philosophy and move on to more important things" (484c).

At the same time, many of the ideas traditionally associated with the soul immortality, for example—have been largely abandoned by philosophy or assigned to religion.

Annotated Bibliography, §6.2 In My Philosophical Development, Russell wrote: "Ever since I abandoned the philosophy of Kant and Hegel, I have sought solutions of philosophical problems by means of analysis; and I remain firmly persuaded, in spite of some modern tendencies to the contrary, that only by analysing is progress possible" (MPD, 11).

(LA, 341) {§6.3} Ever since I abandoned the philosophy of Kant and Hegel, I have sought solutions of philosophical problems by means of analysis; and I remain firmly persuaded, in spite of some modern tendencies to the contrary, that only by analysing is progress possible.

He will not abandon the philosophy that brought him so much success in Germany.