6 sentences with “aim”

Medieval and early Europeans had never developed an empirical scientific culture because the aim of science had never been to discover truth, but to describe it.

Sigmund Freud first used the expression "psychoanalysis" in 1896; since then, countless schools have been born, all with the same aim: to investigate the human mind.

Arguably the most disastrous crusade (in terms of failing to achieve its stated aim of controlling the Holy Land) was the Fourth Crusade, which lasted from 1199 to 1204.

Unlike the sophists' mastery of rhetoric, the aim of Socratic question-and-answer sessions was not to prove that nothing was true, but to force one to arrive at truths through the most rigorous application of human reason.

Among other things, he argued that rich and poor should be accountable to the same laws, that the aim of the judicial system should be both to prevent future crimes and to punish past ones, and that torture was both barbaric and counterproductive.

This was a real and significant change from medieval forms of learning in the sense that the main purpose of education was no longer believed to be the clarification of religious matters or better intellectual support for religious orthodoxy; the aim of education was to create a more competent and complete person.