Sentence examples for philosophical alternative from inspiring English sources

But at least now, having presented a philosophical alternative, they could run against the bill in 2010 if it turned out only to swell the deficit without creating the jobs that Obama had forecast.

Moreover, it is her own dissatisfaction with the usual strategies that philosophy and theology have adopted in the face of evil -- strategies that she feels underestimate either the horror of evil or the goodness of God -- that led her to mount her own philosophical alternative.

That is the view presented in his Middle Commentary, which he may well have written after the Long Commentary, or, as more likely, after a first draft of it.[67] The Latin West had only the Long Commentary in translation, and was ignorant of the philosophical alternative view of the material intellect presented in the Middle commentary.

The conclusion of the novel may be thought of not as a philosophical alternative to optimism, but as a prescribed practical outlook (though what it prescribes is in dispute).

What is more, that peculiarly English strand of political radicalism, wordful expression and dogged, Puritan cussedness that Hill explores offers an exciting narrative of philosophical alternatives to the traditional, conservative dominance of "Middle England".

It was a fashionable philosophy, appealing to learned gentlemen and highborn ladies alike, and it was one of the few philosophical alternatives to the Scholasticism still being taught in the universities.

This heterogeneity is a pervasive feature of the history of biology, so that philosophical alternatives to reduction are responding in part to long-standing controversies among life science investigators about the legitimacy of reductionist research strategies and modes of explanation (see Section 2).

For multiple, overlapping, and complicated reasons of which the most relevant may be the discrediting of Stalin's personage, policies, and version of Marxist philosophy that followed Khrushchev's "Secret Speech," Europe in the late 1950s saw a blossoming of political and philosophical alternatives to the version of Marxism-Leninism promulgated by the Soviet Union.

Once again, the panorama of alternative philosophical traditions opens up for exploration down this road, offering no quick resolution for policy.

He spent seven years at Padua working with an outstanding faculty in Aristotelian philosophy while engaging in discussions with thinkers devoted to the study of Plato and other alternative philosophical sources.

Addressing this paradox requires challenging "master narratives" and traditional canons of philosophy, through turning toward "slave narratives" and other subversive philosophical cultures for alternative views of identity and selfhood (Willett 1995) and through reasserting the identity of women in manners that transform stereotypes into liberating modes of selfhood.