Sentence examples for philosophy and reflection from inspiring English sources

Like Daniel Boulud's LETTERS TO A YOUNG CHEF (Basic Books, $22.50), "Cooking by Hand" contains a good deal of philosophy and reflection.

His twelve-hundred page masterwork, The Principles of Psychology (1890), is a rich blend of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and personal reflection that has given us such ideas as "the stream of thought" and the baby's impression of the world "as one great blooming, buzzing confusion" (PP 462).

A far-reaching philosophy of architecture extends beyond even a broadly aesthetics-based assessment, to include considerations of ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophical reflections on psychology and the behavioral sciences.

In Insight and Reflection (also in Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science) Weyl uses a geometric analogy to illustrate his metaphysical scheme.

It was an evening that matched the deft tone of Pratchett's work – joyful silliness mixed with wry philosophy and honest, often humorous reflections on death.

If philosophy (including philosophy of education) is defined so as to include analysis and reflection at an abstract or "meta-level", which undoubtedly is a domain where many philosophers labor, then these individuals should have a place in the annals of philosophy or philosophy of education; but too often, although not always, accounts of the field ignore them.

In the west, throughout Greco-Roman philosophy and the Medieval era, philosophical reflection on God, or gods, reason and faith, the soul, afterlife, and so on were not considered to be a sub-discipline called "philosophy of religion".

It's possible to trace in it terms of arithmetic, geometry, dualism, epistemology and ontology, and it acts as a demonstration of art and as a reflection of life, philosophy and death.

Criticized by both Schelling and Hegel as a one-sided, "subjective" idealism and a prime instance of the "philosophy of reflection," Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre was almost universally treated as a superseded rung on the ladder "from Kant to Hegel" and thus assigned a purely historical significance.

And, because the novel's bulk includes lengthy reflections on politics, philosophy and theology, it also serves as a standard of intellectual ambition.

To what extent is philosophical writing and reflection a kind of "performance," and can the performing arts be seen as a way of doing philosophy?