Sentence examples for philosophical essence from inspiring English sources

"The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum" refined this axiom to its philosophical essence.

Isolation, absurdity, irrationality: the philosophical essence of Highsmith's fiction is not obviously cinematic.

The director is Nikolaus Lehnhoff, who probes the work with a sharp, analytical scrutiny, in an attempt to expose its complex philosophical essence.

…excessively preoccupied with attempting to resolve larger debates in epistemology involved with demarcating science and identifying and describing the philosophical essences of science and religion.

As Mercer sees it, the creation/evolution debate all too often becomes …excessively preoccupied with attempting to resolve larger debates in epistemology involved with demarcating science and identifying and describing the philosophical essences of science and religion.

But Mr. Cuomo said that he makes a distinction between a philosophical dispute and the essence of a man -- a man, he said, who visited Mr. Cuomo's dying mother without ever mentioning it to him.

The joke on theatrical cross-dressing turns out to be only the first of many twists in a play that swirls from backstage comedy to literary prank to philosophical meditation on the essence of theater as an art form.

The philosophical meditation on the essence of art and the beautiful already begins as aesthetics".

Some other debates, however, are not so easily settled, as they involve contentious philosophical ideas such as essence, concept, and meaning.

Considered from a historical point of view it shows that at least within the tradition of occidental philosophy the opposition between thinking and being lies at the bottom of the most influential attempts (with very few exceptions like Parmenides and possibly Spinoza) to give a philosophical account of the essence of reality and its multifarious ways of appearing to us.

(McCool, p. 254) More ardent critics have objected to Maritain's account of what he calls 'positivism,' and some, such as George Boas, argued at the time that Maritain depends on a theory of the existence of natural classes that have essences — a philosophical theory which may not, in fact, be presupposed by most scientists (Boas, 1952).