Sentence examples for philosophical constructions from inspiring English sources

But as a religion becomes a distinguishable strand of human history, it absorbs philosophical assumptions from its environment and generates new philosophical constructions and arguments both in the formation of doctrines and in their defense against philosophical objections.

The three books of the first part of the Star present philosophical constructions of what Rosenzweig asserts to be the three fundamental kinds of beings God, world, self as the elements out of which the system will be realized.

The second part of the Star introduces theology as complement to philosophy: here the theological "categories" of creation, revelation, and redemption are shown to "fulfill" what is promised in the philosophical constructions of God, world, and self from the book's first part.

But a liberal education can't aim solely at "un-indoctrination"; it's utterly implausible to conceive of education without positive content, to imagine that public schools will develop value-free and content-free "skills" — any more than it makes sense to think of Plato's dramatization of Socratic questioning as merely a thorough debunking devoid of philosophical construction.

Above all, as this essay will reveal, the dual impact of continental and pragmatist philosophy contributes to a feminism that challenges the philosophical construction of sharp dichotomies and opposed binaries.

And he builds a unique philosophical construction, whose premises are often left unstated and which is not always argued clearly, but which develops in distinct stages over the course of his brief lifetime.

However, its scope and theoretical ambition nothing less than a philosophical construction of "the primal history of the nineteenth century" (BA, 90)—joined with the circumstances of Benjamin's life in exile (the constant need to earn money by writing and the uncertainty of a publisher for the project) to frustrate its realization.

On this view, legitimacy and justice cannot be established in advance through philosophical construction and argument, as was thought to be the case in natural law traditions in which classical social contract theory flourished and which is inherited (in different form) in contemporary perfectionist liberal views.

In his book of philosophical fragments, Constructions, Frayn wrote: "A man dominates his environment by establishing a unifying principle - himself".

In this article I shall argue that some of Woolf's best known work especially To the Lighthouse exemplifies a concern for time, reality and a sense of interior life-as-lived that is overtly philosophical in its construction, and even somewhat didactic.

This text addresses theoretical physicists and neuroscientists modeling any systems and processes where human factors play a crucial role, philosophers interested in applying philosophical concepts to the construction of mathematical models, and the mathematically oriented psychologists and sociologists, whose research is fundamentally related to modeling mental processes.