Sentence examples for previous philosophers from inspiring English sources

After becoming acquainted with this body of work, Russell abandoned all vestiges of his earlier idealism and adopted the view, which he was to hold for the rest of his life, that analysis rather than synthesis was the surest method of philosophy and that therefore all the grand system building of previous philosophers was misconceived.

Previous philosophers had been mostly self-taught, typically trained in one of the professions but taking up philosophy because of a personal interest in it.

Although previous philosophers had commented on science and many scientists had influenced philosophy, Mach more than anyone else bridged the divide; he is a founder of the philosophy of science.

It will allow you to see previous philosophers' attempts, what they found, and what fallacies they fell into; thus, progressing your own philosophy.

This will also help you to see whether or not you are attempting something that a previous philosopher has already tried.

Ortega dissociated himself from any particular school of thought, yet would have been the first to acknowledge that a philosopher's ideas become linked with previous philosophical traditions.

Yet Williams was an iconoclast of iconoclasm: while previous great philosophers had each claimed to produce a method that would end philosophy in a generation, he revealed the folly of such attempts.

In this work he also advanced a powerful argument on behalf of woman suffrage a position that virtually all previous political philosophers (all of them male, of course) had ignored or rejected.

Previous Islamic philosophers had even demonstrated some sympathy with the idea.

Perhaps the connection is grounded in some such philosophers' previous commitment to the objectivity of science, together with their thesis that science is the model for philosophy.

Averroës dissected Aristotle's works, analyzing and reconstructing them with a fine scholarly and philosophical sense and an incredible wealth of information derived from previous Greek and Arabic philosophers.