Sentence examples for philosophical mode from inspiring English sources

I entered the philosophical mode of the robbed: Everyone is all right, I told myself.

Still, better a muddled attempt at emulating Ray Davies than the fearful sound of Noel in philosophical mode.

But, in philosophical mode, he accepted it had been difficult to get voters engaged with political reform.

"Life sang out, and every small breath was a triumph against nothingness," she writes in a passage from "Ice Bound" that captures both the lyricism in her writing and her philosophical mode of thinking.

At times, they look human - one gorilla stares straight into the camera as he picks his teeth, another cups his chin in his foot in philosophical mode (it could be a picture byline on a broadsheet Comment page), yet another does a Jesus impression, camouflaged in the bushes and apparently wearing a crown of thorns.

In addition to tribal-affiliation stickers — I Like This Band; I Root for That Sports Team; I Graduated From the Following Institution of Higher Learning — many bumper stickers attempt the more ambitious business of broadcasting some point of view on a matter of public contention, geopolitical policy or even a philosophical mode of being.

Naturalism also goes hand in hand with a now generally prevalent pessimism about traditional philosophical modes of argumentation.

At the same time, Habermas insists on the difference between theological and philosophical modes of discourse: as a reflection on faith, theology must not renounce its basis in religious experience and ritual.

Since then, however, he has explored the role of religion in politics, on the one hand, and the relationships between religious and philosophical modes of discourse, on the other.

Third, there are a number of educational theorists and researchers whose field of activity is not philosophy but (for example) human development or learning theory, who in their technical work and sometimes in their non-technical books and reflective essays explicitly raise philosophical issues or adopt philosophical modes of argumentation and do so in ways worthy of careful study.

For Leonardo, curiosity meant both looking forward and looking back, looking beyond the accepted wisdom of the Christian Bible to interact with the ancients, studying Greek and Roman texts and philosophical modes of thought, the scientific method, and art.