Sentence examples for philosophical sciences from inspiring English sources

Samuel ibn Tibbon (c. 1150 c. 1230), one of the translators of the Guide into Hebrew and a philosopher in his own right, remarked that the philosophical sciences were more widely known among Christians than among Muslims.

A strong tradition, derided by Kant, asserted that metaphysics was the queen of the sciences, including the philosophical sciences.

Arnauld did not think, however, that philosophical sciences are useful only as instruments for acquiring virtues.

The philosophical sciences, dialectic and sophistry, have universal subjects and predicates.

In Topics I.2, however, Aristotle says that the art of dialectic is useful in connection with "the philosophical sciences".

It is knowledge of sensible things which is primary and thus prior to the "order of learning" the philosophical sciences.

Cabanis' early interest in poetry and medicine and a budding political career were eventually abandoned in favour of philosophical science.

DW Andrei Tarkovsky started work on an adaptation of Stanisław Lem's philosophical science-fiction novel in 1968 in an attempt to find a popular cinematic subject.

Another warning must not be omitted: namely that aesthetics, though a special philosophical science, having as its principle a special and distinct category of the mind, can never, just because it is philosophical, be detached from the main body of philosophy; for its problems are concerned with the relations between art and the other mental forms, and therefore imply both difference and identity.

From the character of aesthetics as a philosophical science (see above) it follows that its history cannot be separated from that of philosophy at large, from which aesthetics receives light and guidance, and gives back light and guidance in its turn.

As the philosophical science teacher Mr Price, notable for his sarcastic wit, in the television sitcom Please Sir!, Richard Davies, who has died aged 89, was the perfect foil to the programme's star, John Alderton, who played the idealistic, newly qualified Bernard Hedges, in charge of the unruly Class 5C.