Sentence examples for philosophical world from inspiring English sources

At about this time parts of the book were published in Japanese philosophical journals, and his name as an original philosopher attracted attention in the Japanese philosophical world.

It's about the family of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who is an icon in the philosophical world and one of my favorite philosophers.

The late philosopher Donald Davidson, whose influence in the Anglophone philosophical world was unsurpassed, put the point succinctly: "Nothing can count as a reason for holding a belief except another belief".

"They allow you to hear a longer conversation quite quickly, to encounter a bigger philosophical world".

In the philosophical world of nineteen-twenties Vienna, however, it was considered distinctly old-fashioned.

Even as a graduate, Lewis had enormous standing in the philosophical world.

This, together with the theological views debated throughout the work, indicates Avicenna's intention to show that the rational underpinnings of Islamic religion are congruent with the philosophical world-view expressed in metaphysics.

When asked what inspired this particular story, he said: "I like to write stories about characters with whom I can identify cynical, overly philosophical world-weary mutts, joyously adulterous penguins, pigs and wolves working together, and even those weirdest of animals (us) wrestling with loneliness, disenchantment, disillusion, and too much (or not enough) love.

In his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation (1819), Schopenhauer reiterated Kant's claim that, given the structure of human cognition, knowledge of things as they really are is impossible; the best that can be obtained are comparatively superficial representations of things.

The philosophical sound-world he created for them — which overleaped the present tense to link the past and the future — was the basis for inspired solos and group improvisations that helped to redefine modern jazz.

There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944).