Sentence examples for philosophical examination from inspiring English sources

Nor is all pop culture fit for philosophical examination, he said.

Perhaps the nearest thing to a philosophical examination of the underpinning of "free" came with the re-publication of Lewis Hyde's 1983 cult book, The Gift.

He is a necessary reference point in any philosophical examination of emotion, and even his less academic books – On Personality (2004) and, with his former student Elisabeth Schellekens, Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? (2009) – have spawned a whole industry of scholarship.

How to Make a Human Being doesn't explain how you might make a human being, or provide an answer to the meaning of life, but it has great fun bringing the work of canonical writers together with a loose philosophical examination of some of the big existential questions.

For here the reader is offered not some clever and arresting adaptation of the latest novelty in psychology or biology to politics but a large, measured, tranquil, and philosophical examination of history by a writer who adds to the rare intellectual equipment needed for so Herculean a task the advantage of experience of public life and contact with foreign scholars and politicians.

Philosophy of religion is the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions.

Out of such considerations of evil and thoughtlessness, along with close philosophical examinations of concepts like thinking, will and judgment, Arendt believed that a foundation for moral law could be found.

Among the first of a host of philosophical examinations of the general theory of relativity, it was distinguished both by the comprehensibility of its largely non-technical physical exposition and by Einstein's enthusiastic praise of its philosophical appraisal, favoring Poincaré's conventionalism over both neo-Kantianism and Machian positivism.

But Einstein's theories of relativity provided far more than the subject matter for these philosophical examinations; rather logical empiricist philosophy of science was itself fashioned by lessons allegedly drawn from relativity theory in correcting or rebutting neo-Kantian and Machian perspectives on general methodological and epistemological questions of science.

But on balance, the summation in his epilogue is probably correct: philosophical self-examination is not a reliable source of happiness or political nous.

Mark Goodall calls the film a "remarkable, pseudo-philosophical mondo examination of hunting fixated on the cyclical, the (inter)relationship of the hunter and the hunted", Kerekes and Slater also comment that it was, "The success of Savage Man... Savage Beast [that] inaugurated the 'savage' trilogy".