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    philosophic


    1. became more and more out of touch with philosophic


    2. the populace with the philosophic ideas that he has just


    3. thinking that he could build a complete philosophic


    4. produced nothing new on philosophic or religious field,


    5. to be the most solid system philosophic


    6. but as a new philosophic concept, with a new ethic


    7. To use technology able to neutralise radiation seemed like the philosophic equivalent of creating a temperate biosphere for ice-age cavemen


    8. The British philosophic writer Theodore Dalrymple is not sanguine about the moral prospects of the West


    9. The Alconas had been to see the damage to the shoreline and were philosophic about the lack of sales


    10. Naturally, I was awed by this philosophic deluge from such a relatively young man; he was only twenty-two and this was his first year of teaching, which he liked, but was saddened by the impertinence, laziness and lack of moral fibre of most students

    11. 9 About this time the chazan inaugurated a young men's club for philosophic discussion which met at the homes of different members and often at his own home, and Jesus became a prominent member of this group


    12. David respected him as a mechanic but took little stock in his religious views and philosophic teachings


    13. And the Buddhist peoples never will enter this harbor unless they abandon the philosophic craft of their prophet and seize upon his noble spirit


    14. " And Andrew would calm Peter now and then with his more seasoned and philosophic counsel


    15. His presence among the apostles was a great comfort to all honest doubters and encouraged many troubled minds to come into the kingdom, even if they could not wholly understand everything about the spiritual and philosophic phases of the teachings of Jesus


    16. While Nathaniel was slow to recover from his supposition that Jesus had misunderstood the spirit of his question, the others were more than thankful that their philosophic fellow apostle had had the courage to ask such a thought-provoking question


    17. It requires time for men and women to effect radical and extensive changes in their basic and fundamental concepts of social conduct, philosophic attitudes, and religious convictions


    18. Religion can never be a matter of mere intellectual belief or philosophic reasoning; religion is always and forever a mode of reacting to the situations of life; it is a species of conduct


    19. 13 This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a plane of unreality; such a concept is purely philosophic


    20. 7 More than once during the long and weary hours of this tragic day, the only sustaining influence of the group was the frequent contribution of Nathaniel's characteristic philosophic counsel

    21. 5 How did this new message of Jewish origin, which had almost failed in the land of its birth, so quickly and effectively capture the very best minds of the Roman Empire? The triumph of Christianity over the philosophic religions and the mystery cults was due to:


    22. For centuries the Greek had seriously thought and earnestly debated about all human problems -- social, economic, political, and philosophic -- except religion


    23. Experiencing an indescribable relief at that thought, she felt that she couldn’t care less, but her philosophic indifference couldn’t come in handy in her daily regimen


    24. If such knowledge taught by the imitating scholars was taken truly from God, the super philosophic theory, brought by the scientists of this wild age would be unable to stand up before the students; moreover, they would make it a laughingstock before those who believe in it


    25. I remember when I was at the age when people began to call me _Backfisch_, and my mother dressed me in a little scarlet coat with big pearl buttons, and my eyes turned down because I was shy, and my nose turned up because I was impudent, one summer at the seaside with my governess we noticed in our walks a solitary lady of dignified appearance, who spoke to no one, and seemed for ever wrapped in distant and lofty philosophic speculations


    26. Immediately afterwards we drove past them; Charlotte bowed coldly; the Harvey-Brownes bowed cordially, and I saw that the young man was my philosophic friend of the afternoon at Vilm


    27. excited a fourth philosophic sect among us, and had a


    28. occurred in it, as well as the philosophic views and


    29. The philosophic question goes: does the end justify the means, or do the means justify the end? People have wrestled with this ethical problem and never found a satisfactory solution to it


    30. That is why the culture of philosophic seriousness died when Sartre died, and why the culture of comedy died when Carlin died

    31. A well-known writer of philosophic books admitted the other day that he had given a quarter of a dollar to a man who approached him as he was coming to visit the house of his friend


    32. furnished, is giving them credit for philosophic accuracy with no conceivable parallel on the records of human speculation


    33. The absence of the doctrine of eternal suffering from the law is decisive proof that modern men have misinterpreted the Revelation, by foisting into it the philosophic doctrine of natural immortality, thus compelling Scripture to utter a language not its own


    34. The Jewish and the Heathen influences to which the primitive churches were exposed agreed in one thing only—a common detestation, both on philosophic and religious grounds, of Christ's Revelation—that man can possess eternal life solely in Him


    35. † Such modes of quoting the poetic and philosophic books of the Old Testament are nearly on a par with those by which it is unaccountably sought by some to withstand the Newtonian astronomy, and to establish the notion that God has revealed to men in the Old Testament the truth of the Ptolemaic system


    36. Thought is poisoned at its spiritual fountains, till at length a profound philosophic atheism measures at once the daring of humanity and the depth of its degradation


    37. Denniston has treated with honest impartiality the variable doctrine of the first two centuries, specially of Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, and shown that although they have sometimes spoken the philosophic or popular language, their deliberate and final teaching is strongly in support of the unpopular, but apostolic doctrine, of immortality in Christ only


    38. The truth unhappily is, that these saintly men had either forgotten, or never learned, some of the principal peculiarities of Christ’s religion, and were driving hard along the road of a falsely philosophic and thence ascetic superstition


    39. But there are two directions in which this flame may travel; so that there are two roads between which the philosophic traveler may choose


    40. There is something so heart-striking, so fitted to compel attention, in the apostolic warning of Christ’s imminent return to destroy obstinate and obscene worshippers of idols, to avenge the perversion of the truth in Christendom, to raise in glory the sleeping saints, and to establish Heaven's kingdom on earth,—that even languid India must lift her head to listen, and haughty philosophic China hearken awe-struck to the trumpet-blast

    41. philosophic point, let alone the theological one, is rather complicated,


    42. this case it is not a philosophic discipline but a universal method of ob-


    43. in course of philosophic disputations were prohibited”


    44. with western religious and philosophic tradition


    45. are rather technocratic than philosophic, while corresponding terms


    46. samadhi that are caused by western philosophic intel ectual tradition


    47. Th e key philosophic and psychological theme of Buddhism is the


    48. doctrines are conventionally treated for philosophic ones, many of


    49. today, unfortunately, we consider then to be merely of philosophic or


    50. lems is not only of psychological, but of philosophic signifi cance as well





































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    Synonyms for "philosophic"

    philosophic philosophical thoughtful profound learned reflective

    "philosophic" definitions

    of or relating to philosophy or philosophers


    characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment