Sentence examples for ancient intellectual from inspiring English sources

The public library, a symbol of the city's ancient intellectual tradition that was burned down in 1981, has been rebuilt and is now full of studious teenagers.

Iran has been blessed and cursed with a strong national identity, bountiful natural resources, an ancient intellectual and cultural tradition, and a strategic location.

But the government's acquiescence came in part because of the library itself, a modern reincarnation of an ancient intellectual center that was rebuilt and re-opened in 2001, a one-shot effort to rekindle the kind of scholarship that centuries ago put Egypt at the forefront of science and learning.

The ancient intellectual center refers to the "New Library of Alexandria" housed in a very modern oval-looking structure that is designed to recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship of the original Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

His epistolary novel Hyperion; oder, der Eremit in Griechenland (1797 99; Hyperion; or, The Hermit in Greece) integrates ideals of Platonic philosophy into a revolutionary concern for the restoration of the ancient poetical and intellectual grandeur of a Greece that had come under Turkish domination.

The people I met appreciated the value of being deeply immersed in an ancient spiritual and intellectual tradition.

Ancient and Renaissance Christian intellectuals claimed all that was beautiful and humane in pre-Christian Greek and Roman pagan literature was really Christian, inasmuch as the truly brilliant and the genuinely civilized must represent the true religion.

In arguing this, Brooks is following an ancient theme in Western intellectual discourse, emphasizing the otherness of people who practice ways of life different from those in, let us say, Manhattan.

Just think of Emperor Nero, who was one of the most intellectual of ancient rulers — and who also killed his brother, his mother and his pregnant wife; then castrated and married a slave boy who resembled his wife; probably set fire to Rome; and turned Christians into human torches to light his gardens.

Without any clear historical filiations to particular textual traditions, one can only rely on Suhrawardi's own claims to having intended to provide a synthesis of these ancient Western and Eastern intellectual traditions.

A central feature of the religious and intellectual traditions of ancient Israel and ancient Greece was the idea of a higher moral law that applied universally and that constrained the powers of even kings and governments.