Sentence examples for philosophical distance from inspiring English sources

"You have to give him credit for traveling a pretty far philosophical distance in such a short period".

Elegant emblematic photographs by Susan Seubert symbolizing various phobias address danger only from an indirect, dryly philosophical distance.

It justifies our revulsion with Communism, our philosophical distance from the current Chinese system, and our distaste when politicians, not markets, try to shape our system.

Some may wonder, listening to "Sophie's Choice," whether Maw's neo-Romantic, pan-Germanic style achieves sufficient philosophical distance from its subject; after all, Wagner, Bruckner, and Strauss were featured on the soundtrack of Nazism.

But it is clear that Mr. Sharon, who has been willing to evacuate only a handful of West Bank settlements and plans to retain perhaps half of the territory for Israel, would have to travel a great philosophical distance.

Free schools are a hallowed Tory initiative, symbolic of the "localism" beloved by the Cameroons, and so by rejecting them Clegg makes plain his intent to put philosophical distance between himself and Cameron.

Yet other philosophers distance themselves from talk of conceptual analysis, but even so feel that philosophical reflection is a source of synthetic a priori intuition (Sosa 1998, 2007).

Plato and Aristotle can in many ways be seen as defending some fundamental tenets of Greek ethics (such as the value of justice), but doing so by means of advancing revisionist philosophical doctrines and distancing themselves from the ways in which those tenets were interpreted by the democratic institutions of their day.

Warhol's art patrols the space between people, conducting a grand philosophical investigation into closeness and distance, intimacy and estrangement.

No one dealt with these issues more thoroughly than Xunzi, and his passionate defense of the Confucian moral vision contributed substantively to lessening the distance between the philosophical ideal and the historical reality.

Juan Rivano, in particular, developed a devastating critique of the levels of abstraction he found in the philosophical community, and questioned the distance of his colleagues from the concerns of the nation.