Sentence examples for folk philosophy from inspiring English sources

Toon Hermans, a beloved Dutch stage performer who was as comfortable in poetry, song and folk philosophy as in making people ache with laughter, died last Saturday in a hospital in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

The African American Church combines the Africanized faith of my ancestors with the democratic optimism demonstrated by the folk philosophy of the Jazz aesthetic.

"A lot of what goes by the title of 'philosophy' doesn't have much to do with academic philosophy, but with a kind of inspirational folk philosophy.

Myles Horton, co-founder of Highlander Folk School which birthed the citizenship school movement, travelled through Denmark and was inspired by the folk school philosophy, "education for life".

In the circumstances it's not surprising that Aldous turned out to be a writer who ranged far beyond the usual preoccupations of literary folk – into history, philosophy, science, politics, mysticism and psychic exploration.

The contrast between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics, although briefly presented by Strawson, entered into the folk taxonomy of philosophy.

This is a book about moral philosophy, folks!

Besides pursuing his interests in folk humor, cycling, and philosophy, Marshall organized the first Maine Festival, held this summer on the Bowdoin College campus, in Brunswick.

Though No Child Left Behind is perhaps best known for requiring every state to test annually in English and math, its passage may ultimately be recalled as the moment when education came to be treated more like medicine -- a science that advances according to the findings of impartial research -- than moral philosophy or folk wisdom.

It's not clear who introduced the term "folk psychology" into the philosophy of mind.

Together, Thrasymachus and Callicles have fallen into the folk mythology of moral philosophy as 'the immoralist' (or 'amoralist'amoralist