Sentence examples for extant philosophical from inspiring English sources

Elisabeth does not seem to have produced any systematic philosophical work, and her extant philosophical writings consist almost entirely of her correspondence with Descartes.

Elisabeth, Princess Palatine of Bohemia (1618 1680) is most well-known for her extended correspondence with René Descartes, and indeed these letters constitute her extant philosophical writings.

While her correspondence with Descartes comprises the only substantive extant philosophical writings of Elisabeth, we are also aware of a correspondence concerning Descartes's Geometry with John Pell, exchanges with Quakers, including Robert Barclay and William Penn, and letters written both by and to her concerning political and financial matters in the English Calendar of State Papers.

Many of the latter would now be lost if not for a single manuscript, held in Istanbul, which contains most of al-Kindi's extant philosophical writings (edited in Abu Rida 1950 and 1953; several important texts are edited and translated in Rashed and Jolivet 1998).

Although only three fragments of Bernard's verse are extant, his philosophical doctrine can be determined from a résumé given in John's Metalogicon.

American Philosophical Society, oldest extant learned society in the United States, founded under the impetus of Benjamin Franklin in 1743.

A twelfth text, Investigation of the Ultimate (Paramārthaviniścaya, Don dam pa gtan la dbab pa), which Śāntarakṣita refers to in two of his other philosophical works, is no longer extant in any language and is thus a great loss to those interested in the philosophical thought of this great Indian philosopher.

This picture is strongly suggested both by his Life of Plotinus and the Sententiae, the only extant work in which he lays out his basic philosophical views that is with certainty attributable to him.

Given the present philosophical climate, it seems unlikely that a fuller, philosophically and historically more adequate, understanding of the extant versions of mainstream neutral monism will result in their revival.

Theologian, philosopher and rabbi, Saadya's legacy includes a number of philosophical and theological treatises, 2 Arabic translations of the Bible, a [mostly non-extant] Biblical commentary in Arabic, various rabbinical, mathematical, and grammatical writings, a Hebrew dictionary, liturgical poems and a Jewish prayer book.

His philosophical treatise Theologiae Graecae compendium ("Compendium of Greek Theology"), still extant, is a manual of Stoic etymological interpretation of popular mythology.