Sentence examples for influential doctrines from inspiring English sources

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) combined the Romantic idea of the genius with a further statement of German transcendentalist philosophy, which Carlyle opposed to the influential doctrines of empiricism and utilitarianism.

'Once the roots are firmly established, the Way will grow.' Might we not say that filial piety and respect for elders constitute the root of Goodness?" (Analects 1.2; Slingerland 2003, 1) We see here the beginning of what became one of Mencius's most influential doctrines: that benevolence and righteousness are achieved though "extension" of the love and respect first manifested in the family.

Sandel's book is, in its calm way, an all-out assault on that idea, and on the influential doctrine that the economic approach to "utility maximisation" explains all human behaviour.

While constructive empiricism has not gained a wide number of adherents, it continues to be a highly influential doctrine in philosophy of science.

However, Marxism is after all the most influential doctrine in the twentieth century, exerting an impact to different degrees on various fields of the social sciences, both in China and in the West.

According to an influential doctrine of Wittgenstein's, the task of philosophy is not to solve problems but to dissolve them by showing that there were really none there.

Reflection on the relation between God and 'being in general', which leads Aquinas to present the transcendentals as divine names, and thus to integrate the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions of reflection on 'being'oneone'truerue', and 'good', gives rise to the influential doctrine of the analogical predication of the transcendental terms.

Influential Catholic doctrines have also supplied grist (or axes) for further grinding.

His most powerful personal belief was that "everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil," from which proceeded his most influential anarchic doctrines.

Through this process Bartolus wrote several extremely influential legal doctrines, particularly those on the governmental authority of city-states and the rights of individuals and corporate bodies within them.

Among the most influential philosophical doctrines of Arabic origin is the distinction between essence (mâhiyya, essentia) and existence (wujûd, ens), which the Latin West got to know from Avicenna's Metaphysics, chapters I.5 and V.1 2.