Sentence examples for philosophical contribution from inspiring English sources

Then I discovered that critics found many connections, and the editors of the Library of Living Philosophers decided that my novels had to be taken into account as a philosophical contribution.

However, as scholars have come to reassess in the last several years the philosophical importance of early German Romanticism both as something of a counter-movement to German Idealism and as a contributing factor within idealism's development—so interest in Schlegel's distinctive philosophical contribution to his era has increased.

A valuable philosophical contribution here is the distinction between "making people happy" and "making happy people".

His philosophical contribution to the rationalist tradition, Science of Ethics (1882), attempted to wed evolutionary theory to ethics, and An Agnostic's Apology appeared in 1893.

The most-important philosophical contribution of the book was Singer's penetrating examination of the concept of "speciesism" (which he did not invent): the idea that the species membership of a being should be relevant to its moral status.

It is his articulation of this particular view that makes Ross's work a lasting philosophical contribution.

Apart from epistemology, the most significant philosophical contributions of the Enlightenment were made in the fields of social and political philosophy.

Until the late 20th century, women's philosophical contributions were generally dismissed (if they were noticed at all), and issues of concern to women were ignored.

The author presents a survey of the respective philosophical contributions of African-Americans, gand, and women (there is a chapter on each), but his highest compliment is reserved for our sitting President, or the "philosopher-in-chief".

On the whole, Sperber is rather grudging about Engels – downplaying his philosophical contributions (particularly to The Communist Manifesto), blaming him for the endless feuds and splits that bedevilled their attempts to build a political party, and accusing him of wilfully misinterpreting Marx's legacy for the 20th century.

This area is ripe for philosophical contributions.