Nagarjuna, citing an early sutra, expanded the notion of the middle way into the philosophical sphere, identifying a middle way between existence and nonexistence, or between permanence and annihilation.
In the 1920s, philosophers Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin conceptualized the idea of a "noosphere" (from the Greek "nous", mind and sphaira, "sphere"), a philosophical sphere of intelligence around the Earth that humans could draw from — a planet of the mind.
Unlike the next generation, he expected all spheres of philosophical inquiry to open up to his investigation and his philosophy extended to all spheres: logic, metaphysics, ethics, political thought, aesthetics, education.
However, he also appears to have accepted the traditional philosophical belief that the spheres are moved by an external mover.
Firstly, indicating how human beings should be treated in the initial stages of their development does, in no way, determine their ontological status, and thus does not make legal regulations simply the next of many voices expressed in the sphere of the philosophical debate.
Others argue that our moral, religious, and philosophical convictions shouldn't leave the private sphere.
His numerous works include the best-selling philosophical Critique of Cynical Reason and the Spheres trilogy.
Moreover, the concept has historical origins in well known philosophical discussions, most notably Aristotle's distinction between the public sphere of political activity and the private sphere associated with family and domestic life.
(4) For Rickert, however, the transcendent syntheses promised by religion are prefigured, as it were, in two earthly kinds of syntheses, that is, the love between man and woman in the sphere of practice and the production of a philosophical system oriented towards a comprehensive worldview-theory in the sphere of contemplation.
Previous Greek planetary thinking had been more about getting the right big picture, based on philosophical principles and geometrical models (whether using Eudoxus's concentric spheres or Apollonius's epicycles and eccentrics).
Men are their world, while for men the whole wide world is their sphere, and their speeches can range across the great political and philosophical questions that concern us all.
