Sentence examples for intellectual grounds from inspiring English sources

Father Lauder's book makes clear the intellectual grounds for his own philosophical and Christian convictions.

Their predecessors of twenty years ago might condemn society on intellectual grounds, but they accepted its traditional institutions emotionally.

Rebelling against his family's middle-class values early in the 1950s, Fuentes became a communist, but he left the party in 1962 on intellectual grounds while remaining an avowed Marxist.

Nor does emotion prove duress - as when FH Bradley writes to William James (in 1897) that "when I kicked the personal God off my premises, it wasn't wholly on intellectual grounds".

Not on intellectual grounds – Adam Smith (the father of free market economics) supported higher taxes on property in order to reduce taxes on more industrious endeavours – but because their instincts prevent them from asking anything more from the very wealthy, even as people on lower incomes feel the pinch.

"Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds" (1896, 11).

Over the past three decades, the Democrats have surrendered so much intellectual ground to Republican anti-statism that they have little with which to fight back effectively.

Ms. Charlesworth covered a lot of stylistic and intellectual ground in her 40-year career, which encompassed writing and teaching as well as art-making.

The rationalising French philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries laid the intellectual ground for the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution.

Libraries have been a safe zone for me, a kind of emotional and intellectual ground zero for the past 15 years.

As 2018 dawns, come along to this evening class with historian of ideas Dr Hannah Dawson and get an intellectual grounding on the urgent topic of feminism.