Sentence examples for philosophical force from inspiring English sources

"The book was central to the evolution of Romanticism from a specifically English and insular aesthetic to a universal political and philosophical force," writes the anonymous author.

What makes the west different is the physical and philosophical force with which it simultaneously makes its case for superiority and contradicts it.

Dewey's longevity meant that pragmatism remained a philosophical force in the United States well into the twentieth century.

The most conspicuous new philosophical force conveyed by this transmission was that of Buddhism, especially as represented in art and architecture.

Therefore, the world, precisely as created "out of nothing," cannot be eternal.[19] The philosophical force of the expression that there be a logical moment at which we could say that the world is not and with reference to which the world begins to be.

But what may be most telling about the 14th amendment repeal campaign -- the element that suggests it could be a major philosophical force within the Republican Party -- are its roots.

As far as I could tell, the two driving philosophical forces at the Buffalo mansion were freeganism and hedonism.

But what is clear is that during the early-modern period of Japanese intellectual history, Confucianism and Buddhism came to be fairly distinct philosophical forces, with much critical antipathy issuing from the Confucian camp.

Wasmann's position was philosophical and forced by the Pasteurian tradition against spontaneous generation.

Voltaire's public satire of the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin published in late 1752, which presented Maupertuis as a despotic philosophical buffoon, forced Frederick to make a choice.

Douglas Sirk did as much; though he made some great films before becoming the master of romantic melodrama, he found an extraordinary depth of latent philosophical and symbolic force in the operatic inflation of crises of middle-class life.