Sentence examples for philosophical currents from inspiring English sources

"The Mason is imbued with the ideals of the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the philosophical currents of the time, like Rousseau," Mr. Armada said.

After all, the union's debt to the "civilizations of Greece and Rome" and later "by the philosophical currents of the Enlightenment" are mentioned.

He served as a cultural middleman through whom the aesthetic and philosophical currents of Europe passed to America, and he led his countrymen during the burst of literary glory known as the American renaissance (1835 65).

In her rendering of the seaside landscape with a photographer's analytical eye for the abstractions of forms and textures, as well as in her sense of sophisticated reason at odds with itself, Varda captures, cinematically, the philosophical currents of postwar Paris.

This current was continued by Mario Rossi, who asked one to read again in full the texts of Hegel and Marx, to reconstruct the related movements, and to compare the materialistic conception of history with more recent philosophical currents such as structuralism, sociology, and the logic of the sciences.

The forceful skepticism to which they contributed, which became one of the most powerful philosophical currents of the Enlightenment, treated the scope of human knowledge as severely limited and the powers traditionally attributed to human reason especially during the era of great metaphysical system building in the 17th century—as little more than dogmatic pretensions.

A strong philosophical current runs through it, exploring the tensions between individual desires and social expectations as Julie renounces her lover, embracing virtue and marriage only to consign herself to a fatal dissatisfaction.

With respect to the later 20th century, one has to speak not of the presence of Hegelianism as an operating philosophical current but only of studies on Hegel and of an experience of the Hegelian philosophy, to which, however, almost no orientation in philosophy was foreign.

At the same time Camus argues against the specific philosophical current with which Nietzsche is often linked as a precursor, and to which he himself is closest existentialism.

Considering a theoretical perspective, we have observed that Foresight studies were nourished by various mega theories along its evolution (the theory of systems, functionalism, cybernetics, the philosophical current of phenomenology), including some regional theories too (the theory of chaos, the theory of game, the economic theory on innovation and crisis, among others).

Hostiensis borrowed heavily from this philosophical current to make even more extreme homophobic claims.