Sentence examples for philosophical authority from inspiring English sources

He has shaken off the weight of Aristotle's or anyone else's authority, and far from attempting to demonstrate the harmony among philosophers he puts himself forward as a philosopher who dissents from the recognized philosophical authority.

Perrone Compagni also emphasizes the early influence of two works (one genuine, the other spurious) attributed to the thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher Albertus Magnus, who was a revered philosophical authority at Cologne, where Agrippa received his education.

Erasmus does cite Plato himself fairly often, but in most cases not as a philosophical authority to be followed (or rejected) but simply as an ancient author cited to illustrate a point, just as he would cite literary figures like Vergil, Pliny, Cicero, or Euripides.

He was regarded in the medieval Islamic world as the greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle.

Despite the fact that the treatise concerns astronomy, it played a major role in changing the philosophical view of humankind's place in the universe and in advancing the idea that no amount of philosophical authority could dictate what one actually experienced in nature.

At their best, the Coen brothers' movies affect the tone of legend and allegory; legend itself plays a significant role in their work (as in the opening sequence of "A Serious Man") and, for all their derisive and ribald glory, their films sometimes attain, by way of scripture by way of Kafka, an oracular philosophical authority.

During this time Plato and Aristotle were regarded as philosophical authorities and their works were subject to intense study.

He regarded Plato and Aristotle as philosophical authorities and was persuaded that the best way to do philosophy was to read and comment on their works.

Such treatises generally relied on some combination of argument (usually drawn from ancient sources), examples, and citations from scripture and from literary or philosophical authorities.

He was socially conservative and eager to give a new philosophical sanction to a hierarchical, if businesslike, commonwealth in which family authority was most important.

(A "Joan of Arc" bake-off: write a play that includes a woman who confronts authority, a philosophical defense of cross-dressing, and a match).