Philosophically, it has inspired me to ensure people get access to the laws and protections that we pass.
On "V.A.L.I.S.," apparently inspired by the philosophically minded Philip K. Dick novel of the same title, Mr. Okereke imagines a dystopian future version of himself.
"Hat", as he called it, inspired a whole genre of philosophically reflective medical writing, nourished by art and literature.
Equally surprising is the fact that the most philosophically subtle arguments in the Meditations are inspired by a Spanish nun, Teresa of Ávila (1515-82), works works have been entirely ignored by historians of philosophy.
My work, inspired by the work of K.K. Sabelfeld is philosophically different in that there is no requirement for reflection at these boundaries.
Or a staging that engages philosophically with the fact that the lovers' fevered affections are inspired by a potion, in the first instance.
But there are also philosophically deeper motives: (2) He takes over from the precritical Kant an idea (inspired by ancient skepticism) that the best way for the philosopher to pursue the truth is by setting contrary views on a subject into opposition with one another in order to advance towards, and hopefully attain, the truth through their mutual testing and modification.
He was also much inspired by William James's philosophy and psychology and tried to interpret his own basic insights philosophically with the use of psychological concepts borrowed from James.
It would be easy, philosophically, to accept the limitations of human powers on which this account is based as a theologically inspired account of weakness of the will.
It is clear from the remaining fragments that this work constituted Plethon's prescription for a happy life for humankind, advocating an ethics and a politics inspired by Plato himself as well as by Middle Platonic, Neoplatonic, and Stoic writers, and propagating a philosophically refined form of the old Olympian religion.
