Sentence examples for philosophical content from inspiring English sources

This kind of humanism was given a more elaborate philosophical content by the English philosopher T.H. Green, whose Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation (1885) greatly influenced members of the Liberal Party in the British governments of the period 1906 15.

To drain away the philosophical content of these objects is to cheapen them.

She didn't give herself sufficient credit for producing literary works with a subtle philosophical content.

What increased the appeal of his poetry was its intellectual, even philosophical, content.

Explicit intellectual or philosophical content is absent from his best work.

It didn't threaten the words of Oscar Wilde for wit, or for philosophical content even those of Joey Barton.

These facts, together with the extreme subtlety of the philosophical contents of the letters, have made interpretation of the correspondence very difficult.

Nietzsche describes himself as "a follower of the philosopher Dionysus" in Ecce Homo, How One Becomes What One Is (Ecce Homo, Wie man wird, was man ist, October-November 1888) — a book in which he examines retrospectively his entire corpus, work by work, offering critical remarks, details of how the works were inspired, and explanatory observations regarding their philosophical contents.

With its web-symposium format (bits of text appended to wacky names) and its quasi-philosophical content, it reads like the minutes from some Socratic chatroom.

Appended to the Brahmanas are chapters written in similar language and style, but with a more-philosophical content, which specifically instruct that the matter of these chapters should be taught only in the forest, away from the village.

Of course, the Tea Party, and its heirs in House Republicans' Freedom Caucus, were, for philosophical reasons, content to limit the federal government's functioning as much as possible.