The titanic battle between her and Creon is, in fact, one of the most thrilling moral, intellectual, and philosophical confrontations ever dramatized; inevitably, it has been seen as representing any number of cultural conflicts.
The philosophical problem arises from the confrontation between the great variation in clinical reality and the need to simplify in order to render that reality scientifically tractable.
How to master and even conquer the emotion of the moment with a more intellectually sophisticated response to anger and confrontation is the philosophical talent a peaceful society must cultivate not only in its citizens but also in its police and political leaders.
With the transformation of Judaism into an ecclesiastical institution, largely on the model of German Protestant churches, its ideas and structures took on the cast of its environment in a way quite unlike what had ensued in its earlier confrontations with various philosophical systems.
"Our opposition was philosophical.
In her introduction to the dialogues, Wendy Singer says that the they have been narrowly interpreted as an example of an East-West confrontation, a scientific debate, or a philosophical commentary on the nature of Truth.
He spoke of the confrontation between new technologies like brain imaging and ancient philosophical questions concerning number, space, and time.
Stephen Fry's mock confrontation with God during an interview with Gay Byrne saw Twitter transform into streams of philosophical pondering, angry Christian trolling and admiration.
But the influence was also philosophical, with Godard attempting to make films that would fulfill the existential mission of real-time engagement, first-person presence, and confrontation with death.
