Sentence examples for world philosophy from inspiring English sources

This year I found out that the United Nations proclaimed the third Thursday of every November as World Philosophy Day.

Thursday 20 November is World Philosophy Day, a Unesco event that focuses on the role philosophy plays in public life.

World Philosophy Day began in Paris and has been hosted since in Chile, Morocco, Turkey, Italy and Russia, with subsidiary events the same day in many other countries.

· There is to be a World Philosophy Day, which I guess we can spend debating whether the day actually exists or merely appears to exist.

Unesco has been celebrating World Philosophy Day since 2002, but an agreement made quietly in 2008 for Iran to host this year's event became extremely controversial, given Iran's record of repression and censorship after disputed elections in 2009.

Here's something to think about on World Philosophy Day: while academic achievement, career advancement and financial success are no trifling things, they're simply visible husks that may grow around a philosophical life.

This is evident from his book, World Philosophies (1999), and his writings on nationalism, Mao, ideologies and modern India.

The book traces the roots of belief and ethics in human society and examines four cultures — Israel, Greece, China and India — from 800 B.C. to 200 B.C., when major world philosophies were formed.

Among his most recent books were "Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs" (1996), "The World's Religions" (1998), "Atlas of the World's Religions" (1998), and "World Philosophies" (2000).

Abbas's father came from a very professional family – doctors and university professors – and he was so educated; my God, he would read hundreds of books and teach children Shaw and Wordsworth and a variety of world philosophies.

Casino Royale was published in 1953, the year John F Kennedy, Fleming's most famous admirer, became a senator, and the year Playboy was launched by Hugh Hefner, whose hedonistic, man-of-the-world philosophy Bond came to embody.