Sentence examples for ancient conceptions from inspiring English sources

He then contrasts modern conceptions of natural right, beginning with Hobbes, with ancient conceptions, beginning with Plato.

In the supplementary document on Ancient Conceptions of Analysis, three particular sources of conceptions of analysis were identified ancient Greek geometry, Plato's dialogues and Aristotle's Analytics.

His account of definition too has its roots in Plato's work, and in particular, the elenctic method of Socrates (cf. the supplement on Ancient Conceptions of Analysis, §3).

3-12) is concerned with demonstration, explaining and elaborating on Aristotle's account in the Posterior Analytics (as outlined in the supplement on Ancient Conceptions of Analysis, §4).

But the two activities mentioned here are both part of what the ancient geometers called analysis (see §2 of the supplementary document on Ancient Conceptions of Analysis).

His concern was that a proper understanding of the Christian development required a comparison with ancient conceptions of the ethical self, something he undertook in his last two books (1984) on Greek and Roman sexuality: The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self.

Russell revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life in insisting that questions of cosmic meaning and value have an existential, ethical and spiritual urgency.

That is to say, Italos obviously follows the ancient conception of philosophy, well known from both the Platonic and the Aristotelian traditions, according to which theology is part of philosophy, since philosophy culminates in the attempt to understand the first principle of everything.

There is an element of truth in this suggestion, but uncovering it requires drawing a crucial distinction: if Descartes limits the role of philosophy in determining specific moral rules, he nonetheless upholds the ancients' conception of philosophy as the search for a wisdom sufficient for happiness.

Conceptions of analysis in the medieval and renaissance periods were largely influenced by ancient Greek conceptions.

The early medieval thinkers were well acquainted with ancient modal conceptions through Boethius' works.