Sen often offers such views as an antidote to Samuel Huntington's crude but damagingly influential notion of self-enclosed and necessarily antagonistic civilisations defined by religion.
A contemporary parallel of Kant's conception of autonomy is John Rawls's influential notion of free and rational agents formulating principles of justice in the "original position" (Rawls 1971).
He invented the influential notion of the "willing suspension of disbelief".
He invented the influential notion of the "willing suspension of disbelief".
The theory and findings challenge the influential notion that dissidents' spiritual beliefs alone drive the intractibility of religious conflicts.
Mircea Eliade, a Romanian-born scholar who fostered the study of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, constructed another influential notion of the sacred.
Countering Carl Schmitt's influential notion of the autonomy of the political, Bates demonstrates that Enlightenment thinkers understood the autonomous political sphere as a space of law protecting individuals according to their political status, not as mere members of a historically contingent social order.
Medical discoveries, even mistaken ones, have inspired poets and playwrights since the beginning of the written word, from the influential notion that four "humours" (choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic) determined character, to the more metaphorical use made of medicine by poets such as John Donne.
His work on combinatorics yielded influential notions and theorems of which we mention the de Bruijn-sequences of 1946 and the de Bruijn-Erdos theorem of 1948.
In 1987, after meeting Abdullah Azzam, an influential supporter of the notion of Muslims being obliged to fight jihad, Abu Hamza moved to Afghanistan.
In the inhibition of return (IOR) literature, an influential theory related the notion of IOR with foraging in visual search [33], [34], implying that attention moves from item to item, and that IOR reduces the probability of returning to a previously inspected location.
