Sentence examples for philosophical manner from inspiring English sources

Still, he does so in a philosophical manner.

Nam June Paik made TV monitors the stuff of installations, as did Gary Hill, in a more philosophical manner.

Many of these works, such as "The Roofs" and "The Fountain," read like parables or fairy tales, with some such as "The Devil's Pig," "A Fable of the Buyers," and "The Chart"—echoing the surreal, philosophical manner of Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges.

He has done so with a love of craftsmanship, with a hatred of the shoddy and shabby, the windy and woolly, and with a passion for the truth -- a passion simply for getting things right -- that are unmatched in current philosophy and that have perhaps been matched by no one since Moore himself, whose philosophical manner and attitude Cartwright's so much remind one of.

For tragedy does not set out merely to copy what is the case, but rather, as we have seen in Aristotle's differentiation of tragedy from history, to speak of what might be, to engage universal themes in a philosophical manner, and to enlighten an audience by their depiction.

In its third guise, dialectic has a role to play in 'science conducted in a philosophical manner' (pros tas kata philosphian epistêmas; Top. 101a27 28, 101a34), where this sort of science includes what we actually find him pursuing in his major philosophical treatises.

Fortunately Jean-Do has the enviable literary gifts, the well-equipped mind and the ironic wit to consider these matters in a philosophical yet concrete manner, and the final result is a joyful, unsentimental, unself-pitying affirmation of life.

Theorists such as Claparède hoped to provide a scientific basis for education, an aim that was furthered by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who studied in a philosophical and psychological manner the intellectual development of children.

Ranging from the cautionary to the gnomic and satirical, the tales make for "philosophical fiction in the manner of Jonathan Swift and Jorge Luis Borges, Gerald Jonass wrote here in 2003.

Or maybe he is a philosophical dissident in the manner of Herman Melville's Bartleby, greeting each new assignment with a polite "I would prefer not to".

From Asian legends Boulle created philosophical tales in the manner of Voltaire Le Bourreau (1954; U.S. title, The Executioner; U.K. title, The Chinese Executioner).