Sentence examples for philosophical experience from inspiring English sources

While riding alone is a strangely philosophical experience, hacking out with a friend is all about fun, for you and your steed.

This is fitted out with toy soldiers, a punching bag, a miniature log cabin, a cowboy suit, etc. Junior's own bookshelves are filled with such volumes as "Outline of Psychology", "Contemporary Social Problems", "The Mathematics of Investment", and "The Unity of Philosophical Experience".

His philosophical experience in Vienna was somewhat limited by his uncertain knowledge of German, but he knew enough to pick up the basic tenets of logical positivism.

Hume does not merely discuss the emotions theoretically, he narrates the philosophical experience of them in the "Conclusion to this Book" that closes Book I of the Treatise.

First, a long Introduction (ND 1 57) works out a concept of "philosophical experience" that both challenges Kant's distinction between "phenomena" and "noumena" and rejects Hegel's construction of "absolute spirit".

In classically 'modern' terms, the present is defined as a time of crisis and transition, and philosophical experience (truth) is associated with the glimpse within the present, via the past, of a utopian political future that would bring history to an end.

The belief that some of his ideas have their origin in things that exist external to, or independently of, his mind arises in part from ordinary (pre-philosophical) experience: "…I know by experience that these ideas do not depend on my will, and hence that they do not depend simply on me.

In 1904 Dewey left Chicago for Columbia University in New York City, where he spent the majority of his career and wrote his most famous philosophical work, Experience and Nature (1925).

Addams not only grounded her philosophical work in experience, but in the experiences of those on the margins of society.

It has a moral responsibility to overcome the tyrannical atmosphere of 'ideas' that has so dominated life on Morningside for the last 20 years; it has a responsibility to make the political, philosophical, and ethical experience here as diverse and varied as the cultural and ethnic experience".

Morris is philosophical about the experience now, chalking it up as the quintessential New York-in-the-80s experience.