Sentence examples for philosophical scene from inspiring English sources

When Parfit was young, one of the most dazzling figures on the philosophical scene was Bernard Williams.

Jaffa's review seemed more a chance to recite the tired liturgy of a cranky ideological nostalgia than to paint a picture of the current philosophical scene.

At the universities of Padua and Bologna and at Ferrara and Venice, Averroists such as Agostino Nifo and Nicoletto Vernia and independent interpreters such as Pietro Pomponazzi were dominating the philosophical scene.

In fact, the beginning of modern analytic philosophy is usually dated from the time when two of its major figures, Bertrand Russell (1872 1970) and G.E. Moore (1873 1958), rebelled against an antiempiricist idealism that had temporarily captured the English philosophical scene.

In the 15th century, when Greeks were becoming part of the Italian philosophical scene, Aristotelian rationalism was strongly defended by the upholders of Christian theology against such figures as George Gemistus Plethon, who proposed a new universal religiosity tinged with an admiration for Plato and paganism.

This was not because it seemed that the devil was getting the better of Don Juan, some of whose lengthy speeches have an air of panic: his objection was that the comedy was brilliantly self‑sufficient by itself, while the philosophical scene would only interest people who enjoyed an abstract debate.

In one of the film's most overtly philosophical scenes, which Ms. Babbitt insisted remain in the script, Angus Tuck takes Winnie out in a rowboat and tries to explain to her why his fate isn't as tantalizing as it may seem.

Masquerading as melodrama, "The Infatuations" gradually unmasks itself as a philosophical crime-scene investigation, in which Marías' scalpel-like prose and microscopic observations lay bare the fragmented, indeterminate nature not only of our most intimate relationships but of everything we think we know about why we behave as we do.

WRITINGS ON AN ETHICAL LIFE.By Peter Singer.Ecco; 384 pages; $27.Fourth Estate; £15 (Jan UNTIL Peter Singer came on the scene, philosophical discussion of moral questions in the 20th-century Anglophone world was limited on the whole to refined speculation about the meaning of the main moral ideas, such as goodness, duty and virtue.

So far as the broader philosophical and cultural scene is concerned, the dispute had two further important results.

He is, at his best, a poet of home-brewed koans, threading his philosophical paradoxes into scenes of slacker glamour.