Sentence examples for philosophical influence from inspiring English sources

Yet the philosophical influence should not be exaggerated; none of these senators was a philosopher or even a formal student of philosophy.

Great philosophical influence was denied to Schelling.

Thus Hegel, perhaps the major philosophical influence on modern aesthetics, considered the main task of aesthetics to reside in the study of the various forms of art and of the spiritual content peculiar to each.

Although Neoplatonism was the major philosophical influence on Christian thought in its early period and has never ceased to be an important element within it, Aristotelianism also shaped Christian teachings.

In the long view, the greatest educational and philosophical influence of the age was St. Thomas Aquinas, who in the 13th century made a monumental attempt to reconcile the two great streams of the Western tradition.

These later works also reveal a significant philosophical influence on al-Ghazâlî.

Political life is shaped by a wide variety of factors, including social and cultural conditions, economic organization, intellectual and philosophical influences, geography or climate, and historical circumstance.

Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne's work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences and the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception of the essays.

But Tate's real philosophical influences were jazz musicians, black female literary writers (Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Thulani Davis, Ai and Ntozake Shange) and "a number of black male writers who were working in experimental fiction and poetry" (Ishmael Reed, Clarence Major, Charles Wright, Calvin Hernton).

Mixing very familiar elements (i.e., any of Alice Roosevelt's antics) with other, more startling material, Mr. Bradley first cites some of the academic and philosophical influences on the Harvard-educated Roosevelt's early thinking.

The program is inspired by one of Mr. Chiu's philosophical influences: the mystical guru of self-awareness G. I. Gurdjieff, who died in 1949 and was also a self-taught composer.