| 单词 | philosophical |
| 释义 | philosophical (fɪləsɒfɪkəl ) 1. adjective Philosophical means concerned with or relating to philosophy. He was not accustomed to political or philosophical discussions. philosophically (fɪləsɒfɪkli ) adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective] Wiggins says he's not a coward, but that he's philosophically opposed to war. 2. adjective Someone who is philosophical does not get upset when disappointing or disturbing things happen. [approval] Lewis has grown philosophical about life. [+ about] philosophically adverb [ADVERB after verb] She says philosophically: 'It could have been far worse.' Quotations: What, knocked a tooth out? Never mind, dear, laugh it off, laugh it off; it's all part of life's rich pageantThe Games Mistress Collocations: philosophical depth Decorative skill combines with philosophical depth. Times, Sunday Times Vacuous platitudes of no philosophical depth are no way to develop a legal system. Times, Sunday Times It has all the philosophical depth of a greetings card message but it's underscored with a nasty little edge of misogyny. Times, Sunday Times Each translation differs in the terms used and the interpretations vary regarding the philosophical depth, meaning, and intention. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This new teaching had popular appeal to the common folk, but also attracted great scholars who saw its deeper significances and philosophical depths. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sound and synthetic fury revealed a familiar philosophical divide. Times, Sunday Times Beneath them lies a more philosophical divide. Times, Sunday Times It reflects a philosophical divide from an earlier political era. Times, Sunday Times The arguments are about an emotional and philosophical divide much bigger than the thing itself. Times, Sunday Times His life was a long quest for injustices to resist, and philosophical principles upon which to base his resistance. Times, Sunday Times To adhere to a set of philosophical principles as doctrine? The Times Literary Supplement To no other philosopher has it fallen, during his lifetime, to have his philosophical principles so vividly and so terribly tested. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a resolution, it declared that it should inculcate in the workers the economic and philosophical principles of anarchocommunism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He formed the opinion that mathematical and philosophical principles should be applied to the drainage of low-lying regions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Here's a philosophical question: how do you entice people to listen to serious debates about morality and reason? Times, Sunday Times That's a philosophical question, as much as a financial one. Times,Sunday Times It was both a technical and a philosophical question. Times,Sunday Times Because it's a philosophical question - should others adapt themselves to us or should we adapt ourselves to them? Times,Sunday Times Without putting too much depth into a song that doesn't have much, it's a philosophical question. Times, Sunday Times Such moments spark extended passages of philosophical reflection. The Times Literary Supplement Art can often do and say things that mere philosophical reflection cannot; an artist in her most creative moments can convey ideas at once simple and brilliantly complex. Christianity Today I invite readers to embark on a journey of philosophical reflection. Times, Sunday Times Again and again, philosophical reflection on sport not only allows us to penetrate the phenomena, structures and logic of sport, but the results feed back into philosophy. The Times Literary Supplement Personalists believe that the human person should be the ontological and epistemological starting point of philosophical reflection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ultimately, though, this short book holds together impressively, encompassing an astonishing range of modes: vaudeville humour, tragic romance, philosophical speculation. Times, Sunday Times These paintings address an interior world of philosophical speculation. Times, Sunday Times As the conversation blossoms, the pair wander blissfully off topic into wider philosophical speculation about the nature of culture, for instance, or humanity's curious relationship with past, present and future. The Times Literary Supplement Conscientious, painstaking research was required, instead of philosophical speculation and unwarranted, sweeping generalisations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He often veered into philosophical speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, and humankind's place in the universe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today the philosophical stance he critiqued would be called metaphysical naturalism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hence, his stories depicted a peaceful coexistence in which differing cultures and religions coexist; this philosophical stance regarding east-west encounters dominated from his earliest writings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Reporting this to his father, he took a philosophical stance, telling him that university lectures interfere very much with my work, which was writing poetry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was an eminent scientist, a caring physician, and a great human being guided by a clear philosophical stance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In short, philosophical stance codified in the mind, hence as mindset, lead to a climate that in turn causes values that lead to practice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Philosophical texts and inscribed records of public ceremonial captured little of the passion of the time. The Times Literary Supplement A different, but just as important, concept of history as an unalterable cycle of change, takes prime place in some of the philosophical texts on which historians were nurtured. The Times Literary Supplement Anyone interested in philosophizing has to pick up some philosophical texts and think about them. The Times Literary Supplement His reviews during the 1980s ranged far beyond his previous discussions of philosophical texts that may or may not have had a political dimension. The Times Literary Supplement In analyzing literary or philosophical texts, the assigned reading could be annotated in the margin for its emotional valences. The Times Literary Supplement Originally classical odes were formal, elevated verses written to commemorate a public occasion or pronounce on some lofty philosophical theme. Times, Sunday Times This week, we have an issue which has a philosophical theme, primarily around the issue of equality. The Times Literary Supplement Some have a more philosophical theme. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Franchise directors, all of them sensitive artistic types, are often reduced to defending their roles as cogs in the giant studio machineby speaking about theirmoviesas lofty philosophical themes. Times, Sunday Times It then examines the progression of forces and influences that have shaped our canon and finally at the cultural, historical and philosophical themes that have inspired our creators. Times, Sunday Times It would make a nice change to see policies based on philosophical theory rather than tabloid outrage. Times, Sunday Times The reader's taste for these particular essays will depend on whether they are looking to art to inform philosophical theory, or would prefer things to work the other way around. The Times Literary Supplement The dominant ambition in philosophical theory now was not breadth but precision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since 1949, it has published many books on all the arts, particularly musical subjects like opera and painting, the theatre and critical and philosophical theory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, if we are proposed a philosophical theory, we can never definitely characterize the ontological commitments of it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Valiant also advises against taking philosophical thought experiments too seriously. The Times Literary Supplement They related on the basis of philosophical thought. Christianity Today He clearly prizes it more for its entertainment value and as an opportunity for scenic wizardry than for its philosophical thought. Times, Sunday Times Many references to contemporary philosophical thought are made with the purpose of refuting the opinions of nonbelievers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This view has a wide variety of uses in providing a framework for philosophical thought, including providing a non-modal analysis of necessity and possibility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Species solipsism has long been the default position of our philosophical tradition. The Times Literary Supplement An open society can endure, however, only if it rests on a strong philosophical tradition. Times, Sunday Times He sees his own major contribution as being the promotion of understanding of humanist ethics deriving from the philosophical tradition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many of these intellectuals and scholars created a philosophical tradition in these cities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He considered rhetoric to be the central intellectual discipline, slighting other aspects of the philosophical tradition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The reviewers sent back a philosophical treatise on the virtues of humour, fidelity, tolerance, love and courage. Times, Sunday Times But these theft-types seem easy to understand, so why do we need a philosophical treatise and an expanded set of categories? The Times Literary Supplement A philosophical treatise that tries to give shape to a phantom, leadership. Times, Sunday Times Documenting the deeds, sayings and nonconformist behaviour of the eponymous hero, it struck an ingenious balance between novel and essay, philosophical treatise and theological tract. The Times Literary Supplement The author has said the novel also represents a spiritual and philosophical treatise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Politics, and in particular the moral and philosophical underpinnings of governance, was never far from his mind. Times, Sunday Times Or should you consider another subject that needs maths, rather than investigating the philosophical underpinnings of arithmetic? Times, Sunday Times He writes that through this training he gained enlightenment and insights that would provide the philosophical underpinnings of his methods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Globally, there has been significant controversy regarding the philosophical underpinnings of parkour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unlike the 1980 adaptation, it discards a significant portion of the plot, some minor characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She took a philosophical view of the worldly goods with which she was endowed. Times, Sunday Times So instead of fixating on the initial projected numbers, the company has taken a broader philosophical view. ST If so, you'll adopt a philosophical view of the frequent and often seemingly unfair changes that arise this week and next. Times, Sunday Times His works implies the philosophical view of practical life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her new easy-going, and down-to-earth attitude seemingly reflected a philosophical view of the many ups and downs in life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fiction enabled him to explore philosophical concepts through concrete formal experimentations in ways that philosophical writing would have left at another level of abstraction. The Times Literary Supplement He taught himself to read and write and was a student of philosophical writings and confucian thought. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In actual acquaintance with the philosophical writings of the ancients, he has probably never been surpassed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was the only example of his philosophical writings published in his lifetime. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His philosophical writings deal mainly with the relationship between reason and faith. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 哲学的 Japanese: 哲学の |
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