Sentence examples for philosophical tendency from inspiring English sources

As a philosophical tendency, the New Atheists were popularisers rather than innovators, using advances in biology and neuroscience to illustrate pretty well-worn arguments against religion.

Because of this widespread philosophical tendency in ancient society, the Christian could generally assume some belief in Providence and assent to high moral imperatives among his pagan contemporaries.

Its philosophical tendency, he wrote, is to tear down the traditional doctrines of Christianity and put in their place a new religion of nature, or what he called 'pantheism.' " What Tocqueville deplored, Worster celebrates.

Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century American Transcendentalist, wrote, "Critics are poets cut down, says someone by way of jeer; but in truth they are men with the poetical temperament to apprehend, with the philosophical tendency to investigate".

The basic philosophical tendency is to associate the diversity partitioning research project's (approximately) 85%-10%-5 85%-10%-5 85%-10%-5%-resultt interpretation of biological race.

It is sometimes used, pejoratively, to refer to a philosophical tendency to seek metaphysical solutions to empirical problems, such as the question of how children learn language.

The meditative, philosophical tendencies of graveyard poetry found their fullest expression in Thomas Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" (1751).

In his preface to Pragmatism (1907), James commented that the pragmatic movement was the focal expression of a number of philosophical tendencies suddenly becoming conscious of themselves and of "their combined mission".

Eventually singers or storytellers of philosophical tendencies have systematized their mythologies and have created with fine imagination the figures of Zeus and his Olympic family and his semidivine heroic descendants.

As the essayist Emile de Montégut said, "There is no people among whom abstract ideas have played such a great role, whose history is rife with such formidable philosophical tendencies, and where individuals are so oblivious to facts and possessed to such a high degree with a rage for abstractions".

Sincerity is the opposite of pretentiousness, and while it is certainly possible to be puzzled or annoyed by Mr. Malick's philosophical tendencies or unmoved by the images he composes or the story he tells, I don't think there is any pretending involved.