philosophic


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of or relating to philosophy or philosophers

characterized by the attitude of a philosopher

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I can't do it any other way, for you are both congenitally unable to understand a philosophic abstraction."
A fine end, this, of all my intellectual transports--my "endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought!" I was about to retire in disgust when something occurred to hold my curiosity.
In 1756 he began his career as an author with 'A Vindication of Natural Society,' a skilful satire on the philosophic writings which Bolingbroke (the friend of Swift and Pope) had put forth after his political fall and which, while nominally expressing the deistic principles of natural religion, were virtually antagonistic to all religious faith.
Mohammad Iqbal was marked across the valley with the renewed pledge to continue their just and principled struggle for liberation of occupied Jammu Kashmir from the clutches of Indian rule and to make Pakistan a true forward-looking Muslim state in line with thoughts of the great philosophic poet.
Fayyaz Kheshgi, noted folk singer, said every single poem of Ghani Khan carried a philosophic idea and required a different melodic tune to sing it and it could not be done without understanding that very sublime thought.
It should come as no surprise that both Nick Schwendeman and Ingo Kraus take philosophic views of those things beyond the reach of their control.
One can say that the book represents the experience of crossborder philosophic dialogue devoted to the topic of the border.
Hence his disdain, expressed in the crisp language of a dispatch, for a too-close application of the "ancient philosophic wisdom" to the practice of politics, as hypocritical and self-serving in his day as in ours.
Pour comprendre comment la France concoit sa propre organisation sociale, il faut saisir le cosur de sa reflexion qui se situe notamment au plus profond de la philosophic platonicienne.
Given the increasingly nightmarish political situation we face in the United States, I am all the more convinced that TOS's move away from a primary focus on politics and toward a primary focus on deeper philosophic issues is the right thing to do.
He argues for the development of a philosophy of revolution in permanence in the spirit of Marx, and looks at the organization of thought of the Zapatistas as he seeks the creation of philosophic action groups--organizations of thinker-activists steeped in dialectics who could assist the masses to realize their own powers, creativity and ability to work out a vision of a new human society.
Ses investigations sur ce domaine aride de la pensee nous montre un historien de la philosophic qui sait faire ressortir les conditions qui ont permis de concevoir l'ancienne discipline de 1 'Organon aristotelicien comme une algebre.
This book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood and makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic re-articulation of the role of filmmaking, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination.
Many of his songs are infused with spiritual, philosophic and literary influences that are so interesting to study if so inclined.
What the Gita does is to defend certain dogmas of religion on philosophic grounds.