Sentence examples for philosophical merit from inspiring English sources

The overall philosophical merit of the possible-worlds framework cannot be judged without close scrutiny of its metaphysical foundations.

The philosophical merit of things that are equivocally F is that they come bearing signs of their incompleteness, so that the inquisitive mind wants to know more (Republic 523c 524d).

His attention to the latter sources placed him in the middle of the growing debate on the authenticity and philosophical merit, if any, of the "ancient theology" and the practice of spiritual and demonic magic by such contemporary thinkers as the unfortunate Giordano Bruno.

The various philosophical thinkers and schools are being introduced without evaluations of their philosophical merits, and there is no talk about the harmony of the philosophers in general, or between Plato and Aristotle.

However, whatever its philosophical merits, Schupbach's proposal is considerably more complex than Shogenji's original suggestion.

We shall never know, and it is after all not so important when assessing the philosophical merits of his works.

It is an elegant philosophical maneuver and merits more serious attention than it has received up to this point.

While non-realism might seem to lay the groundwork for greater tolerance between religions (and between religions and the secular world) because it subverts the battle over which religion has a true picture of the cosmos, critics have lamented the loss of a normative way of choosing between religions, ways that seem to be used in commonplace philosophical reflection on the merits of religion.

Experimental biological knowledge is sufficiently different from other kinds of scientific knowledge to merit a separate philosophical treatment of these issues.

Hayek also seems to take for granted, as do many of his philosophical opponents, that, in a merit-based system, if you can't prove you deserve G, that licenses merit czars to take it away.

In theory it was not an event that should have created a stir: a philosophical debate on the moral merits of religion.