A
philosophical construct refers to an idea or concept that is theorized or created by philosophers to help understand or explain different aspects of the world. It is not a physical thing, but rather an abstract concept that helps us make sense of complex ideas and phenomena.
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As is clear even in outline, Camus's plan was to face the existential abyss and pursue what might still be won for human life even where reason (which is to say, productions like the large continental
philosophical constructs of French and German rationalism) and God were no longer available.
But instead of a religion revealed
through philosophical constructs — easily reasoned out and understood, instead we get a God inconveniently revealed in people, and food and wine and water and bodies and pies and oil and beer.
But for me the most important, by far, is that it's the
only philosophical construct we have to determine truth with any degree of reliablity.
They also bring to mind the ideas of the Transcendentalists and other early
American philosophical constructs as well as our never - ending national dialogue with and very real dependency on nature.
In
my philosophical construct, he and I are no different, but are essentially connected and united.
On June 28, he spoke to students [at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting] about science as
a philosophical construct:
Is
it a philosophical construct or is it something more, um, concrete?
Williams produces large - scale black and white collages that track a deeply personal on - going exploration of
the philosophical constructs of difference as it manifests in structural racism, nationalism, authority and governance, eroticism, and violence.
In the UK, decisions have been broadly in line with
that philosophical construct, albeit that caesarean sections have been ordered in situations where mothers have been declared to lack capacity or where their own lives were felt to be in peril.