Sentence examples for this practical philosophy from inspiring English sources

This practical philosophy is deeply ingrained in this rural backwater in southern China, a lush but poor area where the preference for sons overwhelms all other impulses, and family planning laws strictly limit how many children a farmer may have.

Akhlāq-i Jalālī (The Practical Philosophy of the Mohammadan People, 1839) is an account of what a just ruler should or should not do.

Watsuji received his degree of Doctor of Letters, based on his The Practical Philosophy of Primitive Buddhism in 1932.

In contrast to utilitarianism, the practical philosophy of an eighteenth-century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, does play a major part in contemporary debates about political obligation.

The Greeks used the word "eudaimonia" — sometimes translated as "human flourishing" — to describe the highest human good, and it became the aim of practical philosophy to contemplate how to achieve this state.

A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition.

Both models simultaneously carry out a subterranean debate with the Marxist tradition, and this debate guides Adorno's appropriation of both Kantian and Hegelian "practical philosophy".

In this way, the aesthetic elements and paradigmatic Ideas of general aesthetics govern practical philosophy, as well.

Since Kant's philosophy is deeply systematic, this section begins with a preliminary look at how his theoretical and practical philosophy fit together (see also section 7).

Now the diffuse practical philosophy movement is to receive another boost with the publication this month of a new series of nine books, The Art of Living, from the hitherto firmly academic publisher Acumen.

'Abd al-Latif explains this omission as a total lack of familiarity by Avicenna not only of practical philosophy, but also of philosophy in general.