Sentence examples for philosophical prominence from inspiring English sources

The philosophical prominence of many of his students strongly suggests the former, but even his most loyal followers recognise in his educational practice a tendency to promote uncritical conformity.

Sidney Hook's emergence as a major American philosopher within the philosophical community and his accompanying prominence as an influential intellectual in the American cultural and political scene took place during the decades of the 1930s and 40s.

According to Heidegger, in the midst of the nineteenth century two global errors emerged, only to attain prominence in philosophical practice of that day: naturalism and historicism.

Cosmological arguments of this sort are found across almost every human philosophical tradition, and find prominence in the West in the writings of Aristotle, numerous medieval Islamic authors, Maimonides, Aquinas, Locke, Leibniz, Samuel Clarke, and David Hume.

How better could one impart force to advice to women than to assign that advice to women who belonged to the philosophical school that gave most prominence to women?

Typically, attention is focused on long-term regulars who gained prominence through their philosophical publications, but even these do not in all cases fall into the period of the Vienna Circle proper.

It is noteworthy that the other minds problem came to prominence as a philosophical problem only as recently as the nineteenth century, when John Stuart Mill gave us what is generally regarded as a version of the analogical inference to other minds.

(Indeed, the considerable importance we assign to philosophy is evident, in Hegel's view, in the prominence of the philosophical study of art itself in modernity [Aesthetics, 1: 11; VPK, 6].) Yet art in modernity continues to perform the significant function of giving visible and audible expression to our distinctively human freedom and to our understanding of ourselves in all our finite humanity.

While rejecting such negative judgements on the Hegelian School as a whole, the editor of a recent important documentary collection from the period is highly critical of Bruno Bauer, arguing that both his philosophical importance and his personal prominence in the Hegelian movement have been inflated in recent research (Hundt 2010, Apparat, pp. 43 44).

In particular, Barlow compared many of the philosophical underpinnings of Neoconservatism, and its rise to prominence during the George W. Bush administration, to the philosophy of Philip K. Dick.

Given the prominence of the copy-principle in Hume's philosophical system, and its obvious relevance to the debate concerning our idea of God, it is surprising to find that in the Treatise Hume barely mentions our idea of God, much less provides any detailed account of the nature and origin of this idea.