Sentence examples for philosophical theme from inspiring English sources

The basic philosophical theme, drawn directly from Neoplatonism, is one that the American philosopher Arthur Lovejoy, in The Great Chain of Being (1936), called the principle of plenitude.

This 18-minute score, Mr. Kissine has written, is a variation on the philosophical theme of Ives's "Unanswered Question".

In the tale the philosophical theme is the impermanence of all things, which she says is a fundamental idea of Japanese culture: Nothing lasts forever.

For all the clever costumes (Philippe Guillotel), lighting effects (Patrice Besombes) and circus harnesses, the piece builds toward a philosophical theme.

In the secular kasîde the lyric prologue (nesîb) often described some aspect of nature or the garden, while in the religious kasîde it might take a more general moral or philosophical theme.

Despite its renown as the first great work in political economy, The Wealth of Nations is in fact a continuation of the philosophical theme begun in The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Philosophers these days rarely write fat tomes taking on the whole gamut of philosophical themes: space and time, language and truth, determinism and free will, consciousness and the self.

He mixed and matched kitschy pop culture with classical philosophical themes.

Their philosophical themes can give her more sentimental images something of an edge.

Were there other deeper philosophical themes you picked up in the exercise?

The tradition based on Horace addresses moral and philosophical themes and has been the most popular form since the Renaissance.