Sentence examples for tradition of reflection from inspiring English sources

Classical Indian philosophy is an unbroken tradition of reflection expressed in the pan-Subcontinent intellectual language of Sanskrit.

The whole tradition of reflection on the transcendental properties of being was synthesized in the Disputationes metaphysicae of Francisco Suárez (published 1597), which built the most elaborate account of the transcendentals known in the high and later Middle Ages.

In contrast, process philosophy shows fewer affinities to any particular language group and can allude to a rich tradition of reflection in many of the great schools of Eastern thought.

Plato's account initiated the long tradition of reflection that was continued in Neo-Platonism and in aspects of Stoicism to form the foundation of the argument that organic beings could not be explained by chance-like processes either in their origins or in their complex design.

Reflection on the relation between God and 'being in general', which leads Aquinas to present the transcendentals as divine names, and thus to integrate the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions of reflection on 'being'oneone'truerue', and 'good', gives rise to the influential doctrine of the analogical predication of the transcendental terms.

Moreover, it became evident that there existed a tradition of observation, calculation, and theoretical reflection that had been pursued systematically, refined, and modified for over a millennium.

The tradition of self-reflection and care of the self initiated by Socrates fascinated Michel Foucault in his later writings.

While Discourses is now usually considered in relation to a tradition of philosophical reflections on induction and metaphysics, most of its tens of thousands of original readers would, Secord suggests, have understood it quite differently, as a guide to conduct.

The Dalai Lama has often drawn parallels between scientific inquiry and the Buddhist tradition of self-reflection and meditation.

It was this attitude, according to Oruka, that amounted to a claim that Africans lacked a tradition of organized systematic philosophical reflections on the thoughts, beliefs, and practices of their own people.

What follows in this section is a brief outline of the origins and trajectory of reflection on moral responsibility in the Western philosophical tradition.