Sentence examples for rational contemplation from inspiring English sources

Rational contemplation of such a walk is clouded by the facts -- too many miles, too many mountains, too little summer.

This is another way of approaching his central insight: that we cannot exist independently of our relation to the world; and this relationship is a matter of mood and appetite, not rational contemplation.

Burn teases out the odd, and often unnoticed, links between news stories, which languish ignored while feverish speculation obscures rational analysis and contemplation.

In his Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711) Shaftesbury already stated that the response solicited by beauty is one of rational and refined contemplation, far removed from the crude pleasures that we receive through our senses.

Thought, contemplation and rational argument are at a discount".Yourself" is also clear.

Leibniz's ethics no doubt has an intellectualist character, but mere passive contemplation of the rational order of the universe is not the ideal of moral goodness.

While some rational mystics have regarded nature as a contemplative end in itself, for others the contemplation of nature is a source of insight regarding its creator.

The aim of epistemological ascent is to free oneself eventually from the lower psychic faculties, including the lower rational ones, in order to enjoy a state of pure contemplation.

On Whewell's view, the contemplation of the moral principles is conceived as a rational process.

The contemplation of beauty, by contrast, is unique to us rational beings.

Towers with spiral staircases led to moments of mirrored contemplation and a giant spider invaded the former power station's rational modern space.