The Examined Life is a 1989 collection of philosophical meditations by Robert Nozick.

Maimonides, a medieval Jewish rationalist, argued that God always held sacrifice inferior to prayer and philosophical meditation.

Lou Reed wrote philosophical meditations about prostitutes.

The last in my settings, sonnet 64, has a powerful sense of valediction and seems to be the logical conclusion of all these philosophical meditations.

It was claimed that there is harmony between the flute of personal philosophical meditation and the trumpet of social revolution.

In those works the writer trusts his alter- ego, journalist Stepanov, with the social and philosophical meditations from a first-person perspective.

For that matter, Ms. Murray's efforts to turn Katherine's lurid story into a larger, more meaningful philosophical meditation are also in vain.

But it never became the philosophical meditation its program note promised.

The Journal of Modern History stated the book was "more a work of philosophical meditation than conventional historical analysis."

The two stories stand, at once, as dazzling philosophical meditations and beautifully crafted works of fiction.