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philosophical English

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philosophical

Of or related to philosophy.

philosophical

of or relating to philosophy or philosophers philosophical writing a considerable knowledge of philosophical terminology (= philosophic) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment philosophical resignation a philosophic attitude toward life

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Everyone seems to have a bone to pick with someone, but only a few people can be philosophical about it.
People are too materialistic these days, in the vulgar, rather than the philosophical sense of the word.
There is a philosophical branch of Buddhism, and a religious one, and in each of them several tendencies have developed.
We should try to be philosophical about life; wealth gained could also vanish.
Tom is the founder of stoatism, which is the philosophical view that everything is better with stoats.

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It, too, has it's degrees and it's secrets as well as it's religious, or should I say, philosophical background.
I think of the amount of knowledge in the world: Scientific knowledge, philosophical, sociological.
Lots of people make the error of grouping Pareto and Spengler together because they both feel that democracy is through, whereas actually Spengler is the philosophical basis for Fascism.
My brother Tyler, please bring in the candidate Avenel, who is writing his philosophical testament in the Office of Reflection.
That's what i would have told her if you'd given me the chance. Well, how philosophical mr.
So far, it has only been a philosophical abstraction but Professor Charchot has enabled us to reach out and touch it.
On first reading it's evident that the film lacks a problematic, or a philosophical premise.
Two philosophical books in 13 years.
A philosophical genius of the first water.
Let's all appreciate the accused's highly original philosophical theory, which aims to show that man is a hunter and that he is a champion hunter.
This is not the place for philosophical disputes.
Spare me your philosophical metaphors, Doctor.
I'm used to failure. I'm quite philosophical about it.
We can't get into philosophical debates here!
A Sagittarius is philosophical and very positive.
As a middle-aged man should, to maintain a philosophical attitude in evey situation.
Once you achieve a philosophical serenity, you will have attained a genuine freedom.
Some very good men go so far as to call it a philosophical and semantic paradox. And hence, permanently an impossibility.
Please, Colonel, you must be philosophical about this.
Let's not get philosophical.
You know, there's a philosophical viewpoint to all this.
Well, how philosophical mr.
Brice Parain, in your book De fil en aiguille, you state that your earliest philosophical questionings were prompted by Pascal.
Philosophical, perhaps, but hardly productive.
Spare me your philosophical metaphors, doctor.
I'm agaist the priests as a philosophical principle, but your priest is a nice man, I respect him.
Ah, after years of boredom, even illiterates talented for sensation can be more philosophical than Plato.
There's a man for you. A philosophical genius of the first water.
Men and women - that's the main philosophical question.
An eloquent philosophical speech and then you all go and cut your throats?
Gentlemen, I think this philosophical argument can wait until our ship is out of danger.
Maybe for some deep reasons stemming from your philosophical concepts?
More religious than philosophical, in the sense that my atoms,.and maybe my very soul, will come into you,.setting up a sort of spiritual continuity.
Oh, very philosophical, Doctor.

News and current affairs

Besides the lawyers legitimating the deeds, psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors (whose presence was mandatory at any session), and scholars also regularly provided moral, legal, or philosophical justifications.
Immanuel Kant, with his categorical imperative, provided the philosophical foundations for those who wanted an alternative basis for ethics than that provided by religious aphorisms.
Before Darwin, philosophical speculation shaped our psychological understanding.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Phelps's encounters with Amartya Sen, John Rawls, and Kenneth Arrow at Stanford revived his philosophical streak.
The EU, being the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions, is a community of values.
In fact, these elements extend even to cultures like China, where religion is less significant than philosophical outlooks like Confucianism.
President Bush's new strategy for Iraq has posed anew this age-old philosophical and historical question.
Had Obama's attempt at muddling through worked, it would have avoided some big philosophical battles.
Confucianism was essentially a philosophical justification of government by benevolent bureaucracy under a virtuous ruler.
That leads us to ask what else we want, or should want, from life, and that is a starting point for many lines of philosophical inquiry.
Of course, some extreme philosophical individualists believe that appealing to a greater collective is pure humbug, concocted to get voters to accept voluntary servitude.
Unfortunately, this supposition is not supported by serious philosophical analysis or sociological observation.
The first question reflects a long-standing and apparently philosophical dispute between Britain - more accurately, the so-called British financial industry, which comprises almost exclusively non-British firms - and the Continent.
First, unlike the postcommunist countries of Central Europe, they lack Western political and philosophical traditions.
There were two sides to his case, one practical, the other philosophical.
Our default reaction, often reinforced by Western philosophical traditions and simplistic political rhetoric, is that evil acts must be the product of fundamentally evil or insane individuals.
Philosophical differences are extremely difficult to reconcile.
Modern political processes and structures are simply not well suited for conducting - much less settling - philosophical disputes.
Of course, resolving a philosophical debate is not impossible.
In a sense, central banks have begun to resemble medieval philosophical faculties, with discussions addressing the issues underlying policy decisions, rather than just the policies themselves.
On this basis, the ECB is recasting itself as the incubator of a new intellectual and philosophical synthesis.
When it does, the old philosophical divisions are likely to resurface.
Beyond undermining the gene-centered theories of evolution that have dominated public consciousness for several decades, these developments call for new philosophical frameworks.
The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust.
That combination of philosophical radicalism and economic pragmatism has proven to be a perfect formula for Brazil's progress.
But their practical utility, combined with long philosophical pedigree, justifies much greater visibility.
In my view, he would have many new questions - including about our increasingly psychological approach to philosophical discussion.
Only by resolving the structural issue will Asia succeed in overcoming the philosophical problem.

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