Sentence examples for engaging philosophical from inspiring English sources

He did not write abstruse philosophical treatises but engaging philosophical dialogues meant to appeal to a less philosophically inclined audience.

These experiences provided the foundation for an engaging philosophical perspective.

Better yet, he was a dude extraordinaire, a surfer-cum-climber-cum-desert rat with an engaging philosophical bent.

He doesn't engage philosophical ideas so much as fold them up into little slogans.

A generous, engaged philosophical novel, set in the New York art world with its vanities and corruptions, and developing such propositions as the impress of one personality on another, the instability of sexual identity, the passage of the world through people's thoughts and lives.

A major difficulty in attempting to engage philosophical perspectives originating from beyond the horizons of European and American traditions is the tendency to assume default status for Western philosophical categories and questions.

These journals, along with a re-tooled older periodical, Ethics, became self-conscious platforms for socially and politically engaged philosophical writing, born out of the feeling that in time of war (the Vietnam War) and social tumult (the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation), philosophers ought to do, not simply talk about, ethics.

Throughout his career — Francis died in Santa Monica in 1994 at 71 — the artist engaged philosophical conundrums in paint.

Like his predecessor John Paul II, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the German phenomenologist Max Scheler, and wove a keen understanding of philosophical history into encyclicals like "Fides et Ratio", Pope Benedict XVI also seems quite comfortable engaging in philosophical debate.

In his column this week (and ever since the Inauguration), Dionne called on Obama to make the case for his agenda by engaging the philosophical debate head-on: [T]here comes a time when first principles need to be articulated.

Surely it should be reassuring that the ASA is devoting its resources to testing "we're the cheapest" claims by the supermarkets or ensuring that the alcohol and gambling advertisers do not target under-age consumers – rather than engaging in philosophical speculation for which we are ill-equipped.