Sentence examples for systematic metaphysics from inspiring English sources

Lewis restored philosophical respectability to systematic metaphysics.

Hegel, despite his commitment to systematic metaphysics, had nevertheless carried on the Enlightenment tradition of faith in human rationality.

He emphasized the central importance of education for the health of democratic social and political institutions, and he developed his educational and political views from a foundation of systematic metaphysics and epistemology.

William is the first thinker in the Latin West to develop a systematic metaphysics based on the concepts of being (esse) and essence (essentia).

Certainly, there was scant ground for such a systematic metaphysics as Jinsai affirmed in any of the ancient texts, especially the Analects and Mencius, that he otherwise identified with.In this respect, the common characterization of Jinsai as an "ancient learning" (kogaku) philosopher who simply rejected Neo-Confucianism is misleading.

In Germany in the eighteenth century, Christian Wolff's systematic rationalist metaphysics forms the basis for much of the reflection on aesthetics, though sometimes as a set of doctrines to be argued against.

Baruch Spinoza's systematic rationalist metaphysics, which he develops in his Ethics (1677) in part in response to problems in the Cartesian system, is also an important basis for Enlightenment thought.

None is ambitious enough to set about constructing a positive and systematic epistemology and metaphysics.

In the mid-1990s Rescher developed a process metaphysical embedding for his work and thus presented the first systematic non-Whiteheadian process metaphysics.

These inter-connections are a reflection of the fully systematic nature of Spinoza's metaphysics.

In the first chapter of Some Dogmas of Religion, McTaggart characterizes metaphysics as the systematic study of the ultimate nature of reality.