Sentence examples for speculative philosophy from inspiring English sources
noun
Philosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method.
Tetens also wrote Über die allgemeine spekulativische Philosophie (1775; "On General Speculative Philosophy").
But, it is argued in the first place, speculative philosophy cannot even keep its own promises.
He constantly defended Idealistic, or speculative, philosophy against Pragmatism, neo-Realism, Materialism, and Berkeleian immaterialism.
The rise of speculative philosophy among the Ionian philosophers, especially Thales of Miletus, Heracleitus, and Anaximander, led to a more critical and more rationalistic treatment of the gods.
That sounds nice in theory, but politics is a practical venture, and Smith distrusted those statesmen who confused their work with an exercise in speculative philosophy.
One example is the aesthetic posture, presented in earlier work; the other is the project of speculative philosophy, to which this text devotes major attention.
For speculative philosophies of history, the "owl of Minerva" began its flight at dusk; for Ortega, and certain twentieth-century philosophers of history, "historical reason" proclaims the dawn of human history.
The first piece is currently showing at the Hayward Gallery's Mirrorcity exihibition, which features work by London-based artists who are influenced by sci-fi, new speculative philosophies, and the internet age.
In his "Preface" to the 2nd edition of his Sermons Butler sketched his vision of "Morals, considered as a Science", ("Preface", §6) — i.e. speculative moral philosophy in need of defense from speculative objections as opposed to practical moral counsel or revealed religion.
Furthermore, Husserl's stress on intuition must be understood as a refutation of any merely speculative approach to philosophy.
Yan Yuan, Wade-Giles romanization Yen Yüan, literary name Yan Xijai (born April 27 , 1635 Zhili [now Hubei] province, China died Sept. 30, 1704, Zhili province) Chinese founder of a pragmatic empirical school of Confucianism opposed to the speculative neo-Confucian philosophy that had dominated China since the 11th century.
