10 sentences with 'intellectual'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intellectual and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, while later cultures came to regard the Greeks as their intellectual and cultural ancestors, the Greeks themselves did not set out to found "Western Civilisation" themselves. »
• « In doing so, they reinforced many of the intellectual dividing lines created centuries earlier: there was a true civilisation opposed by the barbarians, there was a continuous and unbroken legacy of achievement and progress, and, most importantly, only people born or descended from people born in Europe had played a significant historical role. »
• « Important intellectual and ideological movements calling for religious tolerance, equality before the law and feminism emerged in the West. »
• « However, throughout the entire period there were many cultural, spiritual and intellectual traditions that remained the same. »
• « The Greeks of this period, the Classical Age, produced many of their most memorable cultural and intellectual achievements. »
• « The Classical Age (like the European Renaissance some two thousand years later) is better remembered for its artistic and intellectual achievements than for the political events of the time. »
• « If Greek society was nothing like today's concepts of justice or equality, what was it that led to this era being considered "classical"? The answer is that it was during the Classical Age that the Greeks reached some of their greatest intellectual and cultural achievements. »
• « Socrates-Plato-Aristotle is one of the most remarkable intellectual lineages in history: three of the greatest thinkers of Greek civilisation and one of the greatest military and political leaders, all linked together as teachers and students. »
• « Thus, there were certainly important intellectual advances that took place during the Hellenistic period. However, there were no corresponding achievements in technology or engineering. »
• « In many ways, ancient Rome defines Western civilisation. Even more than Greece, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire that followed created the idea of a single, united civilisation that shared certain attributes and provided an enduring intellectual and political legacy. »