Sentences with phrase «strictly philosophical thought»

In strictly philosophical thought, the very notion of a personal being, especially when not associated with a physical body, is paradoxical.

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Although certainly useful for developing Catholic thought about beauty, the particular strength and importance of Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation rests in Trapani's ability to show how Maritain's aesthetics have significance beyond strictly philosophical or theological domains.

Or, if you prefer philosophical examples, consider the recent debates between proponents of a unified cognitive science, a science that would demonstrate mental events to be either strictly identical with physical events or epiphenomena of them — people like Daniel Dennett and Patricia Churchland — and those who think that there is a philosophically irreducible difference between the physical and the mental — that is, people like Thomas Nagel and John Searle.