Sentence examples for the attempt to think from inspiring English sources

The attempt to think of God as a perfect being is misguided for another reason as well.

Thus the challenge of romantic philosophy consists in the attempt to think systematically but without allowing thought to stagnate in a final set of truths or dogma.

In almost all of these areas, Gadamer's approach is characterized, not by the attempt to apply any pre-existing theory to the domain in question, but rather by the attempt to think from within that domain, and in a way that is attentive to it.

One as mercantile, producing mostly for entertainment, the other deeply rooted in the European attempt to think about the world.

The result is a thoroughly readable and lavishly illustrated testament to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a monumental scale.

The rest of the book followed naturally, and it's an attempt to think through the behavior of the relevant actors who will decide whether good or bad technologies are adopted -- that is, the public, the executive, the courts, and the Congress.

Within the maze are, among other things, a history of Paris as the first modern cityscape, a Marxist study of spectacular commercialism, and an attempt to think through the way cultures envision the future the expansive, sometimes muddled riches of a brilliant mind's passion project.

They do not even attempt to think about the distortions caused by the savings and insurance systems.

The French speak of "essais", which at least has the grace of harking back to Montaigne and implying an attempt to think about the world.

On the one hand, he says (in an argument that gives him his title), post-structuralist thought has been no less than an attempt to "think the impossible".

"The Roomba was our first attempt to think through how we could generate a compelling, single picture of a whole room rather than individual data points," Wylie says.