Sentences with phrase «for philosophical treatises»

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This seems to be the way Locke interpreted his own philosophical innovation — famously trading our equality under God in the 2nd chapter of the 2nd Treatise for equality via individual autonomy understood as self - ownership in the 5th chapter.

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.

Perhaps best known as the futuristic vision behind projects like the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka and the Kyoto Station Building, Hiroshi Hara turned literary, philosophical and theoretical texts — ranging from the Chinese classic Zhuangzi and the Greek Odyssey, to mathematical treatises by Leibniz and Poincaré, and from Kafka's The Castle to TS Eliot's «The Waste Land» and Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad — into the basis for conceptual architectural / meta - physical sketches on sheets of ethereal tracing paper that covered the walls of the museum.