Sentence examples for comprehensive thinker from inspiring English sources

He was a comprehensive thinker within the scope of an exceedingly narrow set of presuppositions, and he produced one of the most systematic philosophies of the early modern period—an almost completely consistent description of humankind, civil society, and nature according to the tenets of mechanistic materialism.

Despite the vilification of his position, Gersonides emerges as one of the most significant and comprehensive thinkers in the medieval Jewish tradition.

This line of thought was carried further by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fichte's successor at Berlin and perhaps the single most comprehensive and influential thinker of the 19th century.

The Warring States period was an age of comprehensive sociopolitical change, and thinkers of different intellectual affiliations had to come to terms with this change.

The chief surviving work of Damascius, Aporiai kai lyseis peri tōn prōtōn archōn (Problems and Solutions About the First Principles), elaborates the comprehensive system of the Neoplatonist thinker Proclus.

A 1966 profile in The New Yorker billed him as "an engineer, inventor, mathematician, architect, cartographer, philosopher, poet, cosmogonist and comprehensive designer," while Fuller described himself as a "maverick thinker," "gentle revolutionist" and "earthly astronaut".

Some thinkers attempt to explain it scientifically, as a comprehensive cosmic principle, while for Thomas and Albert any such realm must be spiritual in nature, and can bear no natural relation to the astronomical universe, though both at times seem to grant it a certain influence on the natural order [Nardi (1967), 196 214; Vasoli (1995a), 94 102].

Few thinkers associated with analytic philosophy strive to produce a comprehensive philosophical system.

Strategic thinkers in the Bush administration must have a robust and comprehensive plan for fostering liberty after the fall of dictatorship.

He brings new life to some old and sometimes forgotten thinkers, giving us a philosophical survey book that's as useful as Bertrand Russell's comprehensive History of Western Philosophy and as delightful as The McSweeney's Joke Book Of Book Jokes.

This notion is one of the central pieces in Endres's more comprehensive thesis about a controversy between "dialecticians" and "anti-dialecticians" in the eleventh century — "dialecticians" being thinkers with a rational tendency while "anti-dialecticians" are suspicious of or hostile towards use of secular arts in discussions related to Christian faith.