Sentence examples for principles of philosophy from inspiring English sources

In 1644 Descartes published Principles of Philosophy, a compilation of his physics and metaphysics.

According to the laws of physics and the principles of philosophy, time travel is impossible.

An exposition of Descartes's Principia Philosophiae (1644; Principles of Philosophy), it showed a profound understanding of Descartes's system.

In the 17th century, Corneille and Racine wrote tragedies inspired by ancient history and when Descartes wrote his "Principles of Philosophy," he did it in Latin.

In 1663 Spinoza published Renati des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiae (1663; René Descartes's Principles of Philosophy), the only one of his works to be published under his own name in his lifetime.

Although he produced some classic books, such as the Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy (which are surely of four-star quality), it is doubtful that he would have published enough to have the required four outputs during any six- to seven-year Ref cycle.

It was followed by Vom Ich als Prinzip der Philosophie ("Of the Ego as Principle of Philosophy").

And the Principle of Consciousness is, in turn, the foundational or first principle of this new Theory of Representation — and hence the first principle of philosophy as a whole.

This definition is reminiscent of Descartes' notion of attributes as it appears in the Principle of Philosophy insofar as attributes are related to the essence (or essences) of substance.

To the extent that any proposed first principle of philosophy is supposed to be the first principle of all knowledge and hence of all argument, it clearly cannot be derived from any higher principle and hence cannot be established by any sort of reasoning.

For Fichte the very fact of philosophy's existence depends upon the free act of the I which initiates the reflective questioning of its own activity by the I. Schelling takes up the issues raised by Jacobi and Fichte in two texts of 1795: Of the I as Principle of Philosophy or on the Unconditional in Human Knowledge, and Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism.