Sentence examples for philosophical activity from inspiring English sources

Another reason one sometimes encounters for denying that the Buddha is a philosopher is that he rejects the characteristically philosophical activity of theorizing about matters that lack evident practical application.

Clearly, other philosophers have been concerned with the nature of human freedom preceding the philosophical activity in Europe from the late 1920s to the 1950s.

His later years were devoted to political and philosophical activity.

He was not just astonishingly long-lived, but his frenetic philosophical activity continued until his death.

And in fact that is why the writing of poetry is a more philosophical activity, and one to be taken more seriously, than the writing of history".

And in fact that is why the writing of poetry is a more philosophical activity, and one to be taken more seriously, than the writing of history". Historians have turned this thinking on its head.

His diary (Journal, 3 vol., ed. H. Gouhier; 1954 57) discusses both his political and his philosophical activities and reveals the dilemmas of a philosopher who felt compelled to play a decisive role in politics.

It does this through an examination of the philosophical activities and writings of four Chinese Marxist philosophers central to this process.

In the 12th century CE, during the so called "period of cessation" of philosophical activities, the most notable figure was the philosopher-mystic, Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī, the founder of the School of Illumination (Ishrāq).

The other source for her philosophical activities is her correspondence with Henry More.

Recent scholarship has revealed that what has traditionally been regarded as the period of cessation of philosophical activities in Persia was, after all, a very thriving period in philosophical activities in the Southern part of Persia.