(b) Trends in philosophical or religious thought

It's the basic regulating principle of the Enlightenment.

The classic philosophical enquiry into what a work of art is.

The members of the philosophical breakfast club disagreed.

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The philosophical breakfast club changed that, working together.

CA We're in Oxford, which is the home of philosophical thought experiments.

So the philosophical breakfast club helped invent the modern scientist.

We're right in the thick of it, this philosophical thicket.

Whether or not he was right, he did not entirely succeed in ending philosophical dispute.

The meaning of life is a philosophical and spiritual question concerning the significance of living or existence in general.

The western philosophical tradition to which my comments today will be restricted can be divided into two main segments.

In the Cambridge winter of 1812 and 1813, the four met for what they called philosophical breakfasts.

The members of the philosophical breakfast club helped form a number of new scientific societies, including the British Association.

On the advice of the philosophical breakfast club, the British Association began to use the extra money generated by its meetings to give grants for research in astronomy, the tides, fossil fish, shipbuilding, and many other areas.

Kant sparked a storm of philosophical work in Germany in the early nineteenth century, beginning with German idealism.

Actually, you know that old philosophical thing, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen?

This understanding, they claimed, ties like minded people from similar cultural backgrounds together and provides a sense of cultural continuity with the philosophical past.

Actually, you know that old philosophical thing, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen? Remember that old chestnut?

There are differing perceptions of the orientation and philosophical approach taken in the report and the relative emphasis with respect to development issues, security concerns and human rights.

So everything we've been talking about today is based on this philosophically charged principle of neuroscience that the mind, with its seemingly mysterious properties, is actually made of physical stuff that we can tinker with.

We are determined to carry out democratic transformations in our country and to acknowledge and respect philosophical, religious, ideological and political choice as an inalienable right of the individual.

We make specific mention of these concepts because their being in the introduction might well lead an unwary reader to believe that they are the cornerstone of the document as a whole and its philosophical basis.

So philosophy comes from the Greek term meaning love of wisdom philo, love sophos, wisdom and every culture from time immemorial has had a philosophical tradition.

Other defenses of objective truth in ethics made no appeal to religion, but could make little headway against the prevailing philosophical mood.

In the philosophical interpretation of nature, the content is similar to that of the natural history and personal experience essays, but the mode of presentation tends to be more abstract and scholarly (Lyon 25).

Pope John Paul II, with his mastery of religious mysticism, philosophical contemplation and poetic and artistic creativity, exerted every effort for the triumph of truth, justice and peace.

There are some cases where our decisions were dominated by big Power pragmatism and doubtful legalisms, as opposed to moral certainty and philosophical clarity.

His philosophical framework includes insightful interpretations of the cognitive role of mediation tools, as well as the re interpretation of well known concepts in psychology such as internalization of knowledge.

Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning's occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished he got up hastily, and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.

It differs from the logical mathematical concept of class by not having any concept of extensionality, and from the philosophical concept of class in that a property is considered to be distinct from the objects which possess it.

Lazarus notes the widely accepted philosophical principle that happiness depends on the background psychological status of the person...and cannot be well predicted without reference to one's expectations.

Historically the term comes from the Greek philosophical term nous , which was translated into Latin as intellectus (derived from the verb intelligere ) and into French (and then English) as intelligence .

Japan also believes that because of their immense power to cause destruction, death and injury to human beings, the use of nuclear weapons is clearly contrary to the fundamental humanitarianism that informs international law and provides its philosophical foundation.

We believe that the Agreement reinforces and institutionalizes the relationship between the United Nations and the ICC, ensuring that, on both a philosophical and a practical level, those two important elements of international justice can work together.

Proof theory is important in philosophical logic, where the primary interest is in the idea of a proof theoretic semantics, an idea which depends upon technical ideas in structural proof theory to be feasible.

The prolific author or co author of over 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles has contributed to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science.

His most noted work (see below) was published in a series of essays from the 1960s onward, moving successively through philosophy of action into philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and dabbling occasionally in aesthetics, philosophical psychology, and the history of philosophy.

It is said to be effective, evidence based, and cheap to implement. Most of all, it stakes a claim to a degree of philosophical coherence of which the various third ways of the last decade could only dream.

An adequate approach to complex economic problems from an economist apos s point of view could not then ignore essential philosophical questions, and a philosopher apos s approach would similarly require some linkage of the more theoretical queries to a sounder understanding of complex practical problems.

Indeed, at least in the arena of financial economics, a vulgar version of equilibrium theory rose to dominance in the years before the financial crisis, portraying market completion as the cure to all problems, and mathematical sophistication decoupled from philosophical understanding as the key to effective risk management.

Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past? President Bush s new strategy for Iraq has posed anew this age old philosophical and historical question.