Sentence examples for philosophical gain from inspiring English sources

Race thus continues as an underlying factor, but it is now strategically employed -- acceptably, by whites and blacks alike, by Democrats and Republicans alike -- for real political and philosophical gain wherever and however, as contextual situations demand and/or allow in the new order.

Hence, ethical theories in applied ethics – more than in the "pure" philosophical realm – gain the character of "problem-serving tools".

The novel acquired new seriousness, and critical, psychological, and philosophical essays gained unprecedented importance.

Most of the characters are well drawn and he tackles the philosophical issue of gaining eternal life at the cost of your soul in between the throat-ripping battle scenes.

It gains philosophical traction from not sparing himself — his profession ("Edward Ruscha, Young Artist," read a business card that he issued in 1968), his stylistic penchants ("romance with liquids," confesses one drawing), his emotions ("despair and disgust," another shares), and his Catholic spiritual bent ("various miracles").

Such a conception gains philosophical traction through an argument from analogy with human engineering of complex machines.

Krause's works on structuralism, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and philosophical logic have gained global recognition, especially his publications on formal philosophical approaches to the metaphysics and epistemology of scientific theories.

Three points are crucial: (§1.1) the relation of reason to empirical truth; (§1.2) its role in scientific enquiry; and (§1.3) the positive gains that come from appreciating reason's limits.[1] In addition, sound philosophical reasoning requires that reason gain knowledge of itself a task that is begun, but not completed, in the first Critique (§1.4).

What this sacrifices in philosophical clarity it, perhaps, gains in its ability to respond to real life cases.

Quite often deep insight into Thomas' philosophical thought can be gained from a close attention to the ways in which he comments upon and interpretively clarifies difficult passages in Aristotle that can be otherwise very obscure.

Would insight be gained by similar philosophical probing of other religious traditions?