Sentence examples for sphere of contemplation from inspiring English sources

Also Zabarella emphasized the hierarchical nature of the division between different disciplines; the whole of active philosophy aiming ultimately at the higher sphere of contemplation.

Platonism, Stoicism and Christianity elevated the sphere of contemplation above the sphere of action, precisely because in the former one could be free from the entanglements and frustrations of action.

(4) For Rickert, however, the transcendent syntheses promised by religion are prefigured, as it were, in two earthly kinds of syntheses, that is, the love between man and woman in the sphere of practice and the production of a philosophical system oriented towards a comprehensive worldview-theory in the sphere of contemplation.

The following points are distinctive of Rickert's approach to values as presented in the above table: (1) Note that Rickert distinguishes the way in which values relate to their materials in the spheres of contemplation and in the sphere of practice.

Its act of contemplation makes what it contemplates— as though the very act of contemplation were automatically productive (III. 8. 4).

Ultimately though, the story of the Sphere, and its contemplation as a work of art, resonates with me and many others.

The slightest hint of contemplation worried them.

It is the enemy of contemplation.

It comes with a bit of contemplation," he said.

Ghulām Aḥmad led a life of contemplation and religious study.

"Old Bear" is a book of contemplation, sleeping, dreaming, realizing.