Sentence examples for famous thesis from inspiring English sources

In that sense, this is a distinctly anti-Huntingtonian book in that it recognises the need to engage with civilisations rather than asserting the inevitability of their clashing; it also diverges from Francis Fukuyama's famous thesis about the "end of history" by arguing strongly that history and identity are central to societies' perceptions of themselves today.

And he has been thinking about his influential book "The End of History and the Last Man" (1992) and its famous thesis that after centuries of ideological struggles, "economic and political liberalism" has emerged triumphant, and we can look forward to "the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government".

In this respect, Karl Marx's famous thesis that philosophy should aspire to change the world, not merely interpret it, owes more than a little debt Voltaire.

In this connection, Ji Kang's famous thesis that emotions are foreign to music or literally, that "sounds do not have [in them] sorrow or joy" (sheng wu ai le)—becomes readily understandable.

On Wednesday, however, Gladwell resurfaced in an apparent response to the idea that digitally networked activists are exceling in Egypt -- in contrast to his famous thesis.

We have to acknowledge that this disciplinary boundary work can only be affirmed when a classificatory logic, based on C. P. Snow's famous thesis of the 'Two Cultures' (Snow, 1971[1959]; 1971[1963]), guides us.

He built a castle and a church — the one on whose door the famous theses were supposedly nailed — and he hired an important artist, Lucas Cranach the Elder, as his court painter.

This disregard would be justifiable if one of the most famous theses of Logical Positivists were true in a sufficiently strong sense, viz., that logical truths are really tautologies (such as "It is either raining or not raining") in every interesting objective sense of the word.

Socrates argues for some of his most famous theses along the way, such as the view that "the one who does what's unjust is always more miserable than the one who suffers it, and the one who avoids paying what's due always more miserable than the one who does pay it" (479e4 6).

To the extent that he is remembered today by non-specialists in the history of nineteenth-century religious thought, it is mainly as the object of Marx's criticism in his famous Theses on Feuerbach, originally penned in 1845 and first published posthumously by Friedrich Engels as an appendix to his book, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (Engels, 1888).

The mismatch between theory and experiment was qualitatively explained by Warner Tjrdus Koiter, in his now-famous thesis, as well as in the paper by Lloyd H. Donnell and C.C. Wan.