Sentence examples for philosophical value from inspiring English sources

Maybe this very British breakfast cereal contains some philosophical value in addition to its iron and B-vitamins.

That pessimism is of vast philosophical value if your chosen field is artistic, but no matter what your field is this pessimism will also cost you greatly in the practical, interpersonal, business side of whatever you're doing — and, if what you do is business, you're on an upward flight toward an Icarus-like disaster.

Oakeshott gave to the old British preference for the specifics of experience over the abstractions of argument an almost ethical, life-encompassing dimension, and the dimension of philosophical value that he gave to this practical preference ended by making him a wise guide to the world as it is.

As he said in a San Francisco Chronicle interview last year when asked about the philosophical value of psychoanalysis, there was "a level of self-deception more subconscious than unconscious that can be dealt with by the virtues of accuracy and sincerity".

Beauty is among the oldest of philosophical value concepts, with Plato numbering among its formative theorists.

Should we not read his works for their intrinsic philosophical value, and not as tools to be used for entering into the mind of their author?

And think about the basis of our thinking itself - our philosophical values set in a contemporary context.

The libretto for this mystical yet fitful, searing score is by the Swiss theologian Hans Küng, the president of the Global Ethic Foundation, which seeks to foster peace among the religions of the world by highlighting common ethical and philosophical values.

The standards do an admirable job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming, but as perhaps was inevitable, many of the philosophical values embedded in the word "organic" did not survive the federal rule-making process.

A high-profile children's author, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "We'd all like to imagine that publishers hold themselves to higher standards than banks and sweatshops, that they strive to represent the best philosophical values of society and treat their employees with respect.

The issue is growing beyond one of the philosophical values of the nation, and into one with negative consequences for the economy.