Sentence examples for systematic philosophy from inspiring English sources

Thomas de Quincey once remarked that Kant's regular-as-clockwork walks through Königsberg provided a concrete metaphor for his notoriously abstract, systematic philosophy.

However perverse Bataille seems, he argues, there is a systematic philosophy behind the work, although he was better at sudden insights than sustained argument.

In the 9th and 10th centuries, after a long hiatus, systematic philosophy and ideology reappeared among the Jews, a phenomenon indicative of their contacts with Islamic civilization.

Counterintuitively, this turns out not to be a death-metal combo or a new franchise of academy schools headed by Michael Gove and Sarah Vine, but a systematic philosophy for overcoming uncertainty.

Yet in fact the essay is one of the least rule-bound forms in literary history, a genre that can encompass everything from the 600 pages of systematic philosophy in Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding to the handful of paragraphs which make up GK Chesterton's freewheeling mini-masterpiece, A Piece of Chalk.

In an appendix to Atlas Shrugged, Rand described her systematic philosophy, which she called objectivism, as "in essence…the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".

He was a comprehensive thinker within the scope of an exceedingly narrow set of presuppositions, and he produced one of the most systematic philosophies of the early modern period—an almost completely consistent description of humankind, civil society, and nature according to the tenets of mechanistic materialism.

Rescher 1996 and 2000 offer the to date only introductions to a (non-Whiteheadian) systematic process philosophy.

This view is supported by Against Euthonius, where Gregory denounces Euthonius for placing the results of his systematic Aristotelean philosophy above the traditional teachings of the Church.

However that may be, and though he by no means abandoned systematic and theoretical philosophy, Royce began to write more about what today would be called "practical" or "applied" philosophy.

It will also require that we redouble our efforts to challenge the systematic elimination of philosophy departments and humanities funding from university programmes all over the world – a project of austerity economics that deems the study of ideas simultaneously elitist, irrelevant to the "real" world and without market value.