Sentence examples for philosophical scheme from inspiring English sources

Everything Aristotle wrote, whether about natural history or poetry or politics, formed part of a grand, interlocking, philosophical scheme.

Ms Knox's philosophical scheme defies brief summary: like a witty, post-modern Milton, she rewrites the Christian myth and the whole cosmology of "Paradise Lost".But at the centre of the novel remains the relationship between Jodeau and the angel, extended to include Aurore, the lady of the chateau, to create a trinity in which the permutations of love and carnality can flourish without guilt.

Implicit in the general philosophical scheme in which Schlick discussed Relativity is an objective, logical distinction between the representational framework in which scientific claims may be formulated and those claims themselves.

In a similar vein, Jean Gayon has expounded a "philosophical scheme" for the history of genetics which treats phenomenalism, instrumentalism, and realism not as alternative systems that philosophers have to decide between, but as actual, historically consecutive strategies employed by geneticists in their work (Gayon 2000).

Object though you will, I call this manner aestheticism and formalism and I say that you have no right…to try and tuck these tangled events into your philosophical scheme (schönen und weisen Allgemeinheiten): what results is inadequate and outrageous" (Letters of Martin Buber, p. 189).

Coyne handles this issue deftly by clearly stating that: "Evolution is simply a theory about the process and patterns of life's diversification, not a grand philosophical scheme about the meaning of life (p. 225)." His goal is to simply describe the centrality of evolution to scientific knowledge and understanding.

Moreover, in Machiavelli's critique of "grand" philosophical schemes, we find a challenge to the enterprise of philosophy that commands attention and demands consideration and response.

One of these, already mentioned, he joined others in labeling and characterizing as ethno-philosophy: that is, second-order works that purport to identify and engage in an exegesis of the philosophical schemes and significances of articulated thoughts and expressions, acts, and modes of behavior shared by and thus characteristic of particular African ethnic groups.

Out walking in the park David, who is not a dog owner, is philosophical about the new scheme.

Not all definitions found in the logical and philosophical literature fit under scheme (2).

Despite the support that came from Lorenzo, the commotion that followed and then a plague kept Pico on the move, just at the time he was writing a Commento on a love poem by Girolamo Benivieni and planning his larger scheme of philosophical concord.