Sentence examples for higher aim of from inspiring English sources

Philosophy has always been about the pursuit of knowledge, but one that included the higher aim of living a good and just life.

What if we decided that the higher aim of school was not the transmission of facts or formulas, but the transformation of every student?

Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely, soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings - the sea, mountains, clouds, the open sky - Gurov thought how in reality everything is beautiful in this world when one reflects: everything except what we think or do ourselves when we forget our human dignity and the higher aims of our existence".

Others who followed this line of argument, like Félix Martínez Bonati (1929), and Juan de Dios Vial Larraín, emphasized the role of the university in forming an intellectual elite inspired by the higher aims of philosophy.

Including perspectives from those who fought on both sides, Holland examines not only the nature of the fighting and the higher aims of the campaign, but also the operational level - the nuts and bolts - and in so doing reveals the true complexity of this bitter and bloody battle.

Clarity about the higher aims of higher education is lost in these conditions, The university today has become a "thoroughly rationalized, bureaucratized, disenchanted (in the Weberian sense)" institution that is losing legitimacy, writes Rakesh Khurana in his book "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands".

It would be a small, sad nation that set its expectations so low it decides the highest aim of government is to keep the lights on.

For all their scientific eminence, their argument was philosophical rather than scientific, springing as it did from the conviction that the highest aim of science is to describe the relationship between different sensory perceptions without the introduction of unobservable concepts.

Plato's student Aristotle also took the highest aim of education to be the fostering of good judgment or wisdom, but he was more optimistic than Plato about the ability of the typical student to achieve it.

They also saw that all this required a total reorientation, which could not take place so long as the new wisdom remained not only the highest aim of a few solitary individuals but also a social and popular ideal as well.

The highest aim of the Olympic Games is set out in the Olympic Charter: "encouraging the establishment of a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity".