western philosophy

collocation in English

meaningsofwesternandphilosophy

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western
adjective
uk
/ˈwes.tən/us
/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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philosophy
noun
uk
/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fi/us
/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fi/
the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of the real world and existence, the use and limits of knowledge, and the principles of ...
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(Definition ofwesternandphilosophyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He has a doctorate inwesternphilosophy.
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Westernphilosophyregarded emotion in varying ways.
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It has been variously claimed in the history ofwesternphilosophythat spontaneity is in some sense the quintessence of the imagination5 or the most intense activation of the imagination.
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That is a sobering thought for those who have gone round preaching the wonders ofwesternphilosophyfor 300 years.
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She graduated in 2003 having studied literature andwesternphilosophy.
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Seohak was seen as awesternphilosophy, instead of a religion, which embraced new technology.
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He spent two years doing so and during that time, he read extensively aboutwesternphilosophy.
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His works had a great influence on the history ofwesternphilosophy.
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I did not respond immediately because my constituency is divided by the highland line and there is very much an eastern philosophy and awesternphilosophy.
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This is different from the notion of substance in mainstreamwesternphilosophy, which does not allow substance to embrace dynamism.
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These are mainly the church, the state and science andwesternphilosophywhen it subordinates itself to these three agents. 3.
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Malebranche was well-known and celebrated in his own time, but has since become somewhat of an obscure figure in the history ofwesternphilosophy.
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Being trapped into the prison of words, ruptured from direct experience, thewesternphilosophyis limited to an edifice of mental speculation.
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Thewesternphilosophyfaction asserted that the strength and prosperity of the western nations was due to logic and rationally organized and operated organizations and institutions.
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Philosophy underwent this process toward the end of the 19th-century and it is one of the key distinguishing features of the contemporary philosophy era inwesternphilosophy.
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The questions of what these characteristics are, what causes them, and how fixed human nature is, are amongst the oldest and most important questions inwesternphilosophy.
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It has even been suggested that the term may be more pejorative than descriptive, functioning as a label for types ofwesternphilosophyrejected or disliked by analytic philosophers.
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