Sentence examples for intellectual programs from inspiring English sources

The field unites a number of disparate research traditions with different intellectual programs, but it also provides an arena for principled argumentation about the existence of a common human nature.

What I take away is that the promotion of revolution and the departure from figuration in art amount to alternative strategies of visual seduction, booby-trapping intellectual programs with gratuitous pleasures.

From the viewpoint of long-term continuity of activity, it is necessary to develop various intellectual programs that prevent the decline of cognitive functions.

He also believed in "the study of nature as a means of glorifying God," and the result, Hunter writes, was an intellectual program that was "experimentally based, intellectually rigorous, theistic, and practical".

Yet his letter collections were also meant as an extension of his humanist scholarship and his Neostoic intellectual program.

His stated intellectual program was that to go back to the original Greek works in Arabic translation, and in particular to return to Aristotle in philosophy and to Hippocrates, via Galen, in medicine, but he was able to go back to these sources only through the lens of their reworkings by the philosophers before Avicenna, al-Kindi and al-Farabi.

In the student's experience, an intellectual program like academics is dwarfed by the more comprehensive "head-heart-soul" nature of character development.

On the contrary, the latter would have entailed a naturalization of humans' relationship with the environment that was in keeping with Southwood Smith's intellectual program.

It is thus against the backdrop of this tension between passivity and activity that we can most productively situate epigenetics' intellectual program of molecularizing the environment in digital terms thus making its impact on living beings measurable, archivable and comparable.

Nurture has become today increasingly subject to the techniques of measurement, digitization and storage that are part of that molecularization of environmental and societal factors that is foundational to epigenetics' intellectual program.

As if in response, in "The New Radicalism in America: 1889-1963" (1965) Lasch wrote sourly about the role a rationalist conception of human nature played in liberal intellectuals' programs for social improvement.