Entering the University of Leiden he took his degree in philosophy in 1689, with a dissertation De distinctione mentis a corpore ( on the difference of the mind from the body ), in which he attacked the doctrines of Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza.

Influenced by the views of Brentano's pupil Alexius Meinong, and by Edmund Husserl, Germanophone and Francophone philosophy took a different direction regarding the question of existence.

He took courses in philosophy at the Sorbonne, and he collaborated with L ' Humanité, writing articles on the situation in Albania under the pseudonym Lulo Malësori.

Nonetheless, decades later, in Cinéma I and Cinema II ( 1983 – 1985 ), the philosopher Gilles Deleuze took Matter and Memory as the basis of his philosophy of film and revisited Bergson's concepts, combining them with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

His father had planned a traditional career for Galen in philosophy or politics and took care to expose him to literary and philosophical influences.

Marx himself took care to indicate that he was only proposing a guideline to historical research ( Leitfaden or Auffassung ), and was not providing any substantive " theory of history " or " grand philosophy of history ", let alone a " master-key to history ".

In 1795 he took the degree of doctor of philosophy, and in the same year, though possessing little money, he married.

It took him a surprisingly long eight years to reach his Bachelor of Arts degree following a curriculum of logic, classical literature and philosophy.

Another contribution that helped bring about this modern revolution of sexual freedom were the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich, who took the philosophy of Karl Marx and similar philosophers, and mixed together this chant for freedom of sexual rights in modern culture.

Plotinus took up the study of philosophy at the age of twenty-seven, around the year 232, and travelled to Alexandria to study.

He lived in Hollis Hall and took courses in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science.

This philosophy of utilitarianism took for its " fundamental axiom, it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong ".

From that time, Robert devoted his life to scientific research and soon took a prominent place in the band of enquirers, known as the " Invisible College ", who devoted themselves to the cultivation of the " new philosophy ".

One biographer suggests he was " the greatest intelligence gatherer Washington has ever known ", discovering exactly where every Senator stood, his philosophy and prejudices, his strengths and weaknesses, and what it took to break him.

Rodney was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica, as were reggae singer Bob Marley and political activist Marcus Garvey who both had a great influence on Rodney's life: Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly helping Burning Spear get started in the music industry ( by some accounts ) by introducing him to Clement Dodd.

He then took a course of novitiate studies in La Vega, Dominican Republic before returning to Haiti to study philosophy at the Grand Seminaire Notre Dame and psychology at the State University of Haiti.

Five months after the surgery, with his health continuing to deteriorate, followers of his philosophy of Aesthetic Realism say that Siegel took his life.

Instead of taking phenomenology as prima philosophia or a foundational discipline, Heidegger took it as a metaphysical ontology: " being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy ... this means that philosophy is not a science of beings but of being .".

As Greek myth became more mediated through philosophy, the battle between Lapiths and Centaurs took on aspects of the interior struggle between civilized and wild behavior, made concrete in the Lapiths ' understanding of the right usage of god-given wine, which must be tempered with water and drunk not to excess.

The philosophy professor Carl Günther Ludovici, a classmate of Longolius, took over as editor of the Universal Lexicon from Volume 19.

In his final examinations, he took a First, winning The John Locke Prize for his performance in the philosophy papers, in which he outscored A. J. Ayer.

The speech included the following: " This terrible crime was inherent in his organism, and it came from some ancestor ... Is any blame attached because somebody took Nietzsche's philosophy seriously and fashioned his life upon it ?...

Veblen did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University under Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of the pragmatist school in philosophy ; he took his Ph. D. in 1884 at Yale University with a dissertation on " Ethical Grounds of a Doctrine of Retribution.

His son Zvi Yehuda Kook, who was also his most prominent student, took over teaching duties at Mercaz HaRav after his death, and dedicated his life to disseminating his father's philosophy.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Like a man making a deep dive, Greg took full breath and plunged back into the valley.

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

It generally took well into the autumn for the firm to recover from the summer's help.

He took the stack of mail and tossed it into the waste basket.

No one, he wrote, took any corn of Greville's, for his bailiff of husbandry `` swore a greate oathe thatt who soe came to put hys hande into hys sackes for anye corne shuld leave hys hande behynde hym ''.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

Moll took his coffee into the nursery.

It was the end of the afternoon when he took the huge key out of his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole.

The Death's-Head Corps took in Ukrainian and Baltic Auxiliaries, and the Einsatzkommandos waded knee-deep in blood and turned into drunken, dope-ridden maniacs.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

As it turned out, Jessica took matters into her own hands.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

He took one step, two, broke into a trot and then into a run.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

But before she left her room she dug into her big moire bag, took out the envelope holding her marriage contract and the wax seal had been broken.

Felix took us into his studio.

He took Madden into the room he used as an office.

We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.

In the hall, after adjournment, Dr. Frothingham took him warmly by the hand and requested Parker to visit him -- whereupon our burly Theodore again burst into tears.