Sentences with phrase «philosophical treatise on»

And it wasn't historical or philosophical treatises on war and conflict that dominated his reading.

Not exact matches

I would rather listen to your philosophical «treatise» on morality than e's.

Depending on how you draw up definitions, the first can blend into the second, and even the second and third can overlap on some belief systems and philosophical overviews (such as from Whitehead — if you're wondering who he is, he co-wrote the modern founding treatise of logic).

So Paloma, the protagonist, realizes that Renée is a kindred spirit when she discovers a philosophical treatise accidentally left on the kitchen table.

There is a particularly strong resemblance between Whitehead's small and suggestive work in the philosophy of science, The Function of Reason, and Collingwood's methodological treatise, An Essay on Philosophical Method.43

Athanasius» treatise On the Incarnation refuted Jewish denials that Jesus was the expected Messiah and Greek philosophical doubts that divine being could in any way became a human person.

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.

However, where the game differs from the standard fare of the time — and even the RPGs we play today — is how creator Tetsuya Takahashi deftly crafted a multifaceted treatise on life, death, the concept of mind and memory, all the while heavily infused his story with philosophical and religious themes that would make most theology students balk.

As a philosophical treatise, Nier: Automata does a great job of following on from what the original game started, but as a Platinum action game it can't hold up against the developer's strongest titles.

A student of philosophy in college and after, Stella's work, with its firm adherence to self - imposed rules, behaves like philosophical treatises grounded in consistency and reliant on internal and universal logic.

His work has also been reproduced in many books including on the cover of Simon Blackburn's philosophical treatises THINK and Truth and most recently, EXACTITUDE - HYPERREALIT ART TODAY, published by Plus One Gallery and Thames and Hudson.

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.

Under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, Violet Paget (1856 — 1935) published a bewildering variety of work, including historical studies; meditative essays on art, music, gardens, and travel; philosophical dialogues; treatises on aesthetic theory and psychology; and supernatural tales.