Sentence examples for thought against from inspiring English sources

From Spaventa, whose intention was to vindicate the freedom and autonomy of thought against denominational dogmatism, was derived the foundation for the subjectivistic formalization of Hegelianism soon undertaken by Giovanni Gentile, an early 20th-century idealist.

Safranski, however, places "The Birth of Tragedy" at the core of Nietzsche's work, emphasizing not only his ties to music but the broad and dangerous ties between the worship of art and the fear of democratic politics, or even of social progress — an area in which Safranski balances insights into the subtleties of Nietzsche's thought against an unswerving condemnation of its implications.

Perhaps if the suspended Chris Childs had been available, the Knicks would not have been so befuddled against the Wizards, but they cannot console themselves with that thought against the Magic, since Childs will serve the final night of his two-game suspension for fighting tonight.

When Cynthia first sees Hugh, for example, Mallon writes of how "the blush of his brow and the blankness of the paper and the color of his eyes made a sort of red, white and blue bunting, the banner at a summer picnic or -- on second thought, against the black mourning of his hair -- the flag upon a coffin".

This stresses the urgent need for a rediscovery of material and immaterial historical heritage, as well as the role of schooling in fostering critical thought against the growing supremacy of short-term, market-oriented reasoning.

(This Romantic contribution to the anti-foundationalist Grundsatzkritik of the 1790's has long been a neglected aspect of research on the development of German Idealism, as has the work of those philosophers such as Immanuel Niethammer, Carl Immanuel Diez, Johann Benjamin Erhard and Friedrich Karl Forberg who pursued a similar line of thought against Reinhold and Fichte).

Given that nature, I would not be entirely surprised to welcome a future Sen. Ralph Nader (I-CT) to stand up for due process and independent thought against special corporate interests.

Any time you might have even a twinge of a thought against vaccinations, think of the millions of people who suffered terrible disability and death prior to the development of vaccines for these horrible diseases.