Sentences with phrase «philosophical speculation on»

Keith Arnatt's I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday, typifies the tone: a photograph of the artist in his Seventies flares walking up the entry steps to Tate Britain is accompanied by two panels of philosophical speculation on the meaning of the work's title.

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Then, abruptly abandoning the autobiographical narrative, Augustine embarks on a series of theological and philosophical speculations about time, memory, and the opening chapters of Genesis.

Historically, there have been three routes taken to explore that possibility: the philosophical examination of the idea of immortality; various religious beliefs and speculations on an eternal life; and, most recently, a reinvigorated scientific dream of overcoming aging and death.

[49] All this leads to the inescapable conclusion that the rarefied atmosphere of philosophical speculation can often cause the feet - on - the ground dimension to be lost sight of.

The novel's central character, whose name also evokes that of a famous observatory, continuously makes philosophical observations and speculations about the world around him — a wave, the rays of the sun, a pair of turtles, a sand garden — all leading to ruminations on the nature of things and Being towards the universal.