Sentences with phrase «philosophical inquiry as»

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As such, it takes its place in the general scheme of extensive connection, the «external» world of cause and effect, continuity and change, which is the more traditional field for historical inquiry and philosophical criticism.

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

Sam Adams at Indiewire said its obsession with sex made it «awfully hard to accept True Detective as the sobersided philosophical inquiry it presents itself as: Phil - bro - sophical is more like it.»

The history of religions» inquiry into the «meaning» of religious phenomena leads one to questions of a philosophical and metaphysical nature, but the history of religions as such can not deal with those questions philosophically.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

As a scientist who is also a Jesuit brother, Consolmagno suggests that science poses philosophical questions that in turn spark religious inquiries.

This one is as towering as Annie Hall: a serious inquiry in neurotic Manhattan lifestyles, touched by philosophical grace and punk spirit.

The richness of Leigh's philosophical inquiry has ironically and tellingly flown over the heads of persons stuck on Sally Hawkins's performance, but there's no doubting that the popularity of the film feels as passionate as a ribald flamenco dance — something you could never say about Howard's frosty motion picture.

In primary schools, groups such as SAPERE (the Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education) and The Philosophy Foundation are already doing pioneering work involving children in philosophPhilosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education) and The Philosophy Foundation are already doing pioneering work involving children in philosophicalphilosophical inquiry.

Spearheading this movement, Robert Irwin began to take ideas from philosophical inquiries into the nature of human experience and radical advances in perceptual psychology and combine them with the immersive abstraction that had been pioneered by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.

Singh uses the history and physicality of materials as springboards for spatial interventions and philosophical inquiry, while Önürmen's work shares similar tactics as the other two artists in revealing the relationships and discrepancies between personal and public experience as seen through the lens of contemporary media.

While skilled and elegant in their form, more importantly, the construction and subjects of Tilford's work reveals an epistemological discourse that treats the artistic process as a way of thinking concurrent with a range of other philosophical inquiry.

Her polyphonic and speculative ensembles, which often comprise a large number of individual components, combine an exploration of questions in art with philosophical inquiries into issues such as the essence of time, place, and language and their interrelations.

Formalism was an attempt on philosophical inquiry into the very nature of art, and as such was one approach among many others, like Voluntarism, Intellectualism and Naturalism.

Perhaps this search began in the mid-1980s, with Johns's cycle The Seasons (1985 — 86), in which picturing this venture of thought required a detour through picturing something like a self — hard to commit to it being Johns's self — through references to some of the artist's earlier image strategies (flags, devices) as well as icons of philosophical thinking such as the Platonic forms, Joseph Jastrow's duck - rabbit diagram (the latter made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein's inquiry into «seeing as» in the Philosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouetphilosophical thinking such as the Platonic forms, Joseph Jastrow's duck - rabbit diagram (the latter made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein's inquiry into «seeing as» in the Philosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouetPhilosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouette in shadow.

Some of the subjects that she explore are bio-genetic engineering, hybrids, botanical illustration, scientific specimens, and nature as metaphor for philosophical inquiry.

Philosophical by nature, these inquiries are hardly discussed in public, but as the artist points out, they are inevitably imprinted on people's faces.