Sentence examples for philosophical quest from inspiring English sources

Kiarostami can turn the simplest action into a philosophical quest.

Kronman's philosophical quest grew out of a blissful childhood.

If such extreme predicaments are familiar ones in Miss Murdoch's fiction, then so is the philosophical quest that follows.

Bloom dangles the promise of an arousing and dangerous philosophical quest, which will take the student far from his (and his friends' and parents' and other professors') settled opinions about what is good and decent.

Nietzsche therefore dismissed the professional discipline as irrelevant, a "critique of words by means of other words," and devoted himself to pursuing an idiosyncratic philosophical quest outside the academy.

For him these experiences convincingly challenged the conventional naturalistic and materialistic bent of contemporary philosophy, indicating a realm beyond that of ordinary sense-experience, and promising freedom from conformist biases and prohibitions in his philosophical quest.

A fruitful tension between seeing animals as themselves and enlisting them in a philosophical or artistic quest for human nature runs through many genres.

In short, his was a philosophical and religious quest, and he followed in the footsteps of many, from Plato and Augustine to Rousseau and Schopenhauer.

He is the author of Hume, The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, The Quest for Reality, Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction, and four volumes of collected essays.

He won the Matchette Prize in 1979 for his book Hume (1977) and since then has published The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, The Quest for Reality, Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction, and four volumes of collected essays.

Philosophically, the quest for liberation from suffering and death had led to reflection on the nature of self, action, and knowledge, resulting in an atmosphere that encouraged critical discussion, producing a great variety of philosophical views.