Sentence examples for thought and discourse from inspiring English sources

Carter's declaration that the U.S. will use whatever means are necessary, including military force, to protect the Persian Gulf, a statement that, according to George Kennan, has precipitated the "greatest militarization of thought and discourse" since the Second World War.

Baudrillard has entered a world of thought far from academic philosophy, one that puts in question traditional modes of thought and discourse.

He sought to revive a conception of philosophy as a way of life, not only a mode of reflective thought and discourse.

Baudrillard follows here the poststructuralist critique that thought and discourse could no longer be securely anchored in a priori or privileged structures of "the real".

The third component of the vision is that moral thought and discourse should be framed primarily in terms of the virtues the virtues providing the dominant conceptuality in terms of which we conduct moral reasoning.

It is amusing (even if dispiriting) to think that maybe the anti-empirical biases in neo-Darwinian thought and discourse have as much to do with Victorian prudishness as with Victorian philosophical battles.

So, he said, the council is spreading the word by "working with American intellectuals" and discovering "what issues they are currently interested in and making these the foundation for exchange with their French counterparts". Et voila: thought-and-discourse-provoking salons on the subjects of hair, clouds and chicken - again, see above.

But everybody knows this simple fact: once you've instituted a prize for philosophers and creative writers, you have embraced freedom of thought and open discourse, and I take the continued existence of the Jerusalem Prize as a tribute to the precious tradition of a democracy of ideas in Israel.

The tangles and knots that a philosopher has to unpick are set not by some branch of specialist theory, but "in the thought and the discourse of everyone, specialists and non-specialists alike" (1953, 304).

Democracy thrives on thought and reason and discourse.

However, anybody familiar with Ibn al-ʿArabi's thought and the larger discourse on cosmo-ontology and saintology in Islamic mysticism knows that there is yet another 'beyond' to these two realms of the intellect and spirit.