Sentence examples for philosophical enquiry from inspiring English sources

He was a comic writer who could also incorporate tragedy, satire, horror and philosophical enquiry.

Aristotle also recognised that, unlike some other branches of philosophical enquiry, ethics is not an exact science.

If it were more widely embraced, the practice of philosophical enquiry in primary schools could make schooling a lot more meaningful and engaging for students.

I mean the western tradition of philosophical enquiry, defined as "the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge or conduct".

Cumberland's reputation, however, rests on his De Legibus Naturae, Disquisitio Philosophica (1672; A Philosophical Enquiry into the Laws of Nature, 1750).

Although philosophy features on the high school curriculum in most Australian states, only a very few primary schools dedicate class time to broad philosophical enquiry or to the explicit teaching of critical and creative thinking.

Although Berlin was always sceptical towards logical positivism, its suspicion of metaphysical claims and its preoccupation with the nature and authority of knowledge strongly influenced his early philosophical enquiries.

If we consider his overall strategy, it seems that Pomponazzi was drawing on the distinction between methods of science and methods of faith, by means of which 13th-century secular masters of philosophy at the University of Paris such as Boethius of Dacia had claimed the freedom to pursue their philosophical enquiries without theological constraints.

Philosophical enquiries regarding the manifestation of behaviour and the cognizance of one's existence all involve the brain, an organ around which many more questions exist than answers.

These landscapes and their plants, peoples and structures, whether man-made or natural, were read or appreciated in various ways, not only as objects of aesthetic apprehension but terrains of philosophical and historical enquiry.

Godwin's major philosophical treatise is his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice.