Sentence examples for philosophical knowledge of from inspiring English sources

In this curious work Kant satirically compares Swedenborg's spirit-visions to the belief of rationalist metaphysicians in an immaterial soul that survives death, and he concludes that philosophical knowledge of either is impossible because human reason is limited to experience.

In this important sense, there is body of philosophical knowledge on which non-philosophers can and should rely.

The perennial objection to any appeal to philosophy is that philosophers themselves disagree among themselves about everything, so that there is no body of philosophical knowledge on which non-philosophers can rely.

Hegel's Encyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1817; "Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Knowledge") was of more than subject importance in that it was a compendium of the author's philosophical system in three parts: Logic, Nature, Mind.

And because philosophical knowledge is knowledge of the reasons of things, he believes that it is through the intellectual faculty of reason that humans gain philosophical knowledge.

Often, different views of analysis have been linked to different views of the nature of philosophy, the sources of philosophical knowledge, the role of language in thought, the relationship between language and the world, and the nature of meaning as well to more focused questions about necessary and apriori truth.

Stevens's conscience made him confront the chief issues of his era: the waning of religion, the indifferent nature of the physical universe, the theories of Marxism and socialist realism, the effects of the Depression, the uncertainties of philosophical knowledge, and the possibility of a profound American culture, present and future.

Second, why should not the complete system of philosophical knowledge, including the study of rigorous dialectical argument, be relevant to leading one's life well?

Second, Maritain holds that scientific knowledge is distinguished from philosophical knowledge in terms of their different methods and different objects.

Perhaps Plato's attitude to visual representation claiming so often that the highest philosophical knowledge is devoid of it, and attacking poets and artists in general more than once inhibited and discouraged attempts to capture in painting, sculpture or prints, the mythical scenes Plato himself depicted so vividly in words.

Spinoza's magnum opus, the Ethics, borrowed much from Descartes: the goal of a rational understanding of principles, the terminology of "substance" and "clear and distinct ideas," and the expression of philosophical knowledge in a complete deductive system using the geometric model of the Elements of Euclid (flourished c. 300 bc).