Sentence examples for philosophical strain from inspiring English sources

Why does this philosophical strain seem strangely central to the conception of modern criticism, even as it recedes in influence?

As Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, has correctly observed, "She represents less a philosophical strain on the right than an affect and a demographic".

My father went to Black Mountain, as did my dear friend, the artist and former Duke psychology Professor Irwin Kremen, with whom I've collaborated for many years on sculpture, so I come out of that philosophical strain, and I brought it into my teaching.

The Confucian-like emphasis on "cultivating" this special epistemic ability, obediently following teachers and traditions contrasts with the philosophical strain's emphasis on natural spontaneity, freedom and egalitarianism which seems to Confucians like a plea for anarchy.

The dispute served to expose philosophical strains within the party as it has expanded its control beyond its traditional city base to the suburbs.

In his teaching and publications after 1900, two philosophical strains came to the forefront.

Others, however, such as Shinran, Shōkū (1177 1247), and Ippen (1239 1289), pursued the development of Hōnen's radical teaching, each in his own distinctive way, and it is among such figures that we find the more philosophical strains of thinking.

He made consistent denunciations of the "war-making sins" of the state, while a strong strain of philosophical anarchism caused him to rage against what he called "American military imperialism".

Cultural, political, philosophical, and theological differences strained relations between the two cities, and in 1054 the papal legate and the patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated each other.

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, how could we not be?" Mr. Chertoff, a major architect of the antiterrorism program, spoke in gentle tones, but the atmosphere in the Senate hearing room was filled with the political strains and philosophical debates of the last few weeks.

Second, because Aristotle's hylomorphism was initially developed to handle puzzles of change and generation, its deployment in philosophical psychology is sometimes strained, insofar as Aristotle is not immediately willing to treat every instance of perception and thought as a straightforward instance of change in some continuing subject.