Sentences with phrase «great philosophizing»

Karl Jaspers put it beautifully: «The spirit of meditation, the capacity for penetrating self - analysis, the way of unbiased thinking, an openness for all substantial possibilities — all of this can not be directly taught, but it can be awakened and trained in the comprehension of great philosophizing.

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«In a great act of philosophizing even the finger - tips think — but they no longer feel.»
Martha Nussbaum has devoted the greater part of her career to the rehabilitation of poetry for philosophical purposes» or, if that seems to make poetry merely instrumental to the greater task of philosophizing, Nussbaum can put it in another, more evenhanded way:
Initially, Dostum shows little respect by telling the young officer that he lacks «the eyes of a killer» and isn't yet a warrior, and he spends a great deal of time lecturing and philosophizing on Nelson's behalf.
On this grand tour, the reader travels with Theroux from the Rock of Gibraltar to Jebel Musa in Morocco, stopping in Alexandria to philosophize with Naguib Mahfouz and in Morocco to talk to Paul Bowles and reflecting along the way on historical events and great writings about the Mediterranean.
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