Sentence examples for conception of existence from inspiring English sources

His literary creations spring less from a system of thought than from a spontaneously tragic conception of existence.

Nietzsche would replace the spirit of science with a conception of existence and the world as an aesthetic phenomenon and justified only as such.

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space — atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time.

Important here are: (1) Levinas's argument that Heidegger's conception of existence is historically specific.

But if it corresponds to the possibilist conception of existence relativized to the largest available domain, then Parsons' ontology goes beyond that of possibilists.

If this sole sense of existence corresponds to the possibilist conception of existence relativized to any domain of discourse smaller than the largest available domain, then Parsons is in agreement with possibilists.

Another difference between modal dimensionalism and Lewis's theory is that unlike the latter, the former avoids the merelogical conception of the existence of a possible object at a possible world.

A structural pattern of cycles and circles in Phèdre reflects Racine's conception of human existence as essentially changeless, recurrent, and therefore asphyxiatingly tragic.

Dorn nods to Beckett's stage practice in his conception of colourless existence in the gray floor of the raked stage, and in the three white cycloramas gathered into a very visible vanishing point upstage center.

Included in the idea of universality is some conception of independent existence.

Heidegger's conception of human existence (or, as calls it, Dasein, 'being-there') echoes Kierkegaard's conception of the "self".