Sentence examples for pure philosophy from inspiring English sources
Reading Zarathustra seriously for the first time, despite its literary form, its poetic vision, I treated it as pure philosophy.
I imagined the home life of a mother sitting opposite me with her screaming child, and nearly wept tears of pure philosophy.
"It was first considered as pure philosophy," said Prof. Nicolas Gisin, a physicist at the University of Geneva, who is a co-author of one of the papers.
He is now chief executive of eBay's charity partner, MissionFish UK "The only thing I ever wanted to study was pure philosophy and I found my degree hugely rewarding.
A rare public stand came in 1997 when he joined Mr Rawls and four fellow philosophers in a brief before the Supreme Court arguing that the law should let sane, terminally ill patients end their lives.After his first book, he turned to pure philosophy, joking that he did not want to write "Anarchy, State and Utopia II".
His meeting with Sheffer led Berlin to realise that he lacked the passion and the belief in his own ability to continue pursuing pure philosophy.
Pure practical philosophy, the rational elements of practical philosophy in abstraction from anything empirical, is called by Kant "metaphysics of morals" (4 388).
Cameras are obviously ill equipped to handle matters of pure intellect, philosophy or conjecture, the past, the future or extended time.
His mentor, at home in Cambridge, was John Maynard Keynes, with whom he shared a goal of combining pure mathematics, philosophy, and the formal study of beauty.
They agreed that it should not keep itself pure: a philosophy that confined itself to logical truths, seeing itself as a kind of mathematics of language, had sealed itself inside a futile, circular system of self-reference.
Following a pure MDD philosophy, a set of model transformations are used to generate the system, from preliminary models to the final source code for the Corba Component Model platform.
