The play is both a philosophic discussion and a comedy, with most of the action occurring in one room in the center of the stage.

They have many conversations in a hut in a forest clearing, where Fiedler seeks conclusive proof against Mundt and engages in ideological and philosophic discussions with the pragmatic Leamas.

He insisted the jokes were openings to more substantive philosophic discussions.

Moreover, in the 1840s, the philosophic discussion of fetishism by Auguste Comte, and Ludwig Feuerbach's psychological interpretation of religion also influenced Marx's development of commodity fetishism.

"We could have a philosophic discussion about cabbages, kings and the meaning of the universe."

This group, which revolved around Sir Walter Raleigh, indulged in indiscreet philosophic discussion and allegedly in blasphemies concerning the name of God.

They preferred stories to philosophic or Talmudic discussion, seeing fiction as the best vehicle for conveying an experience which had little to do with facts and reason.

"Notwithstanding the ethical, philosophic, anthropological and religious discussion, the fact is that homosexual relations exist and, therefore, in the name of judicial security, deserve to be regulated," the court ruling said.

For the first time in the festival Stozhary history the philosophic round-table discussions took place.

He is known for combining analysis of practical issues in Jewish law with philosophic discussion.