Sentence examples for philosophical effort from inspiring English sources

Scheler combined the interests of an empirical scientist with a philosophical effort that followed in the tradition of 19th-century attempts to relate human experiences to the concept of a reality (essence) that underlies human thoughts and activities.

Should such concerns continue to be appropriate conditioners of philosophical effort?

His major philosophical effort during these years was on the Rules, a work to convey his new method.

Brentano therefore spent much of his philosophical effort during his retirement analyzing away all the talk of irrealia, which he had accepted in his Vienna period.

So most philosophical effort on terrorism has gone towards arguing about whether such targeting of innocents is ever morally acceptable, and if so, under what conditions.

Taking a page from Locke, Kant decided that, since the existence of God was unknowable, philosophical effort should be directed to the idea of God, especially the separate functions that the idea of God plays in regulating our moral conduct ( judge concept) and our mode of address to the problems of form and function in the organic realm (creator concept).

His philosophical efforts, however, were more inclusive and more complete than those of his contemporaries.

Henceforth Marx's philosophical efforts were toward a combination of Hegel's dialectic the idea that all things are in a continual process of change resulting from the conflicts between their contradictory aspects with Feuerbach's materialism, which placed material conditions above ideas.

Recent philosophical efforts to define genes have sought to capture these practices.

His final years saw no diminishment in the pace either of his public activity or of his philosophical efforts.

In the next section, building on the work of Carl Gustav Jung, I will explore the relevance of the mandala metaphor for current philosophical efforts to come to terms with synthetic biology as a converging research field.