Sentence examples for philosophical conversion from inspiring English sources

Mr. Steel's enthusiasm may represent less a philosophical conversion than an acceptance of raw political facts.

What Marcel called his "metapsychical" experiments—investigations of possible communications by means of telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy, and spiritualism also played a role in his philosophical conversion.

This philosophical "conversion" occurred when he was working for the French Red Cross, during World War I, trying to trace soldiers listed as missing.

His philosophical conversion is a boon to the police, who have taken what Indonesia's counterterrorism chief, Asyaad Mbai, calls a "soft, humane approach" to detainees, treating them as wayward brothers rather than as criminals.

When an individual's philosophical conversion is complete and he has become Intellect, he can rise to that mystical union in which the One manifests his continual presence, carried on the surging current of the impulse of return to the source (in its strongest and final flow), the pure love of Intellect for the Good from which it immediately springs.

The Western is an essentially philosophical genre, in its conversion of society's abstract or bureaucratic functions to direct and physical action.

After his conversion, he began to write philosophical and theological works addressing some of the views from these schools.

Lukács' 1918 conversion to communism and his subsequent engagement with philosophical Marxism not only confounded his friends, even for today's readers, it can be difficult to track the many shifts in Lukács theoretical commitments between 1918 and 1923.

Cydones is the author of the moral philosophical essay De contemnenda morte ("On Despising Death"), an apology for his conversion to Latin Catholicism, and a voluminous collection of 447 letters, valuable for the history of Byzantine relations with the West.

But since his conversion to the Russian Orthodox faith 23 years ago, he has sought musical and philosophical roots in ancient musical traditions ranging from Byzantine chants to Indian ragas to American Indian music.

Most of these studies had as their major goal ascertaining the extent to which Chinese philosophical and religious beliefs were or were not compatible with "the one true faith" in order for conversion work to go forward.