Sentence examples for intellectual ideals from inspiring English sources
"He emphasized intellectual ideals, but he didn't answer the questions at all," he said.
"Working Girl" proposed that you can join the establishment without turning into a beast, but someday I'd like to see a film suggesting that you can be the boss without giving up your intellectual ideals, and that the alternative — rejecting power — has its corruptions, too.
Only realism allows us to live up to the highest intellectual ideals of critical attitude, honesty, and testability.
Voluntarism here re-enters the picture as the necessary precondition for Rotha's and Neurath's choice of notions of social and intellectual ideals.
A lifelong autodidact, he is described by those who knew him as a guarded, sardonic figure, eternally testing those around him against an intellectual ideal.
It calls to mind an earlier entry, on "emancipation," which it calls a condition of "freedom" that represents our highest intellectual ideal.
In the last decades of the century, particularly from 1880 onward, the opposition intensified between those creative writers who grounded their thinking in the material world and those who rejected physical experience as meaningless without reference to some spiritual dimension or intellectual ideal.
He gave philosophical currency to the notion of world-view (Weltanschauung) and, indirectly, world-picture (Weltbild), thereby establishing among philosophers and scientists unity of science as an intellectual ideal.
We should retain theories that are in trouble, and invent and develop theories that contradict the observed phenomena, just because in doing so we will be respecting the intellectual ideal of testability.
Sartre's own What Is Literature? (1947) is typical in its wide-ranging attempt to prescribe the literary intellectual's ideal relation to the development of his society and to literature as a manifestation of human freedom.
Human activity system is an intellectual construct, ideal types to use in a debate about possible changes, which might be introduced into a real-world problem situation.
