Sentence examples for western intellect from inspiring English sources

As scholar Perry Miller wrote in The New England Mind (1939), "Puritanism was one of the major expressions of Western intellect" and was "an important part of the whole thought of the seventeenth century".

Interspersed with an account of their woeful progress through the decades are the cool observations of a dispassionate narrator on the crises and failures of contemporary society, the rise of science and the decline of religion, the animalistic nature of sexual desire and the inability of the liberal western intellect to come up with any coherent response to the disasters that enfold it.

As a group they decided they wanted to help solve the problem of Tibet and China and brought their Western intellect and desire, coupled with quick results process orientation to bear, and presented their ideas to His Holiness.

The intuitive Chinese intellect was anxious to soak up the Buddha's teachings while they fell on deaf ears of the rational Western intellect.

In "Zen and the Art," Pirsig used the motor­cycle trip mainly to illustrate the principles of his "Inquiry Into Values," which he felt broke through the either-or logjam of Western thought (emotion versus intellect, technology versus romanticism, subject versus object) by establishing the idea of Quality as the foundation for both sides.

His accessibility, diffident charm and intellect win over western ambassadors.

Adopting an Indigenous framework identifies the limitation of Western paradigms to adequately portray Indigenous realities, knowledge, intellects, histories and experiences.

The division between valuing athletics and intellect is ancient, going back to the roots of Western civilization.

In explaining his philosophy, Mr. Kunzman said: "Two thousand-plus years of western culture has done everything to schism our emotions from our intellect.

Describing her as someone with a "superb intellect," Ms. Slaughter, a Democrat who represents Rochester and a stretch of western New York along Lake Ontario, said she believed Ms. Kennedy was ready for the job: "I know she is.

For more than 2,000 years, Western rational mystics have contemplated nature its forms, structures, laws, and quantities as a means of participating in the divine intellect.