Thus philosophy, a thing of the highest utility, flourished in antiquity among the barbarians, shedding its light over the nations.

Spanish literature and fine arts, scholarship and philosophy flourished during the 16th and 17th centuries.

In fact, Adam Smith's economic philosophy is flourishing here, although the other part of the European equation - the beliefs of Locke and Jefferson in individual rights and free will - seem to be wavering.

The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain.

Science, philosophy, and the arts flourished, and the Ionians founded further colonies.

Islamic philosophy flourished in the Safavid era in what scholars commonly refer to the School of Isfahan.

Art, poetry, literature and philosophy also flourished.

During this period, Isfahan was an important intellectual center of Iran, where philosophy and intellectual mysticism ('Erfan) flourished.

She also might have wished that the whole human race had but one head; not in order that she might cut it off, but that she might make the philosophy of Nihilism flourish there.

During this time of religious strife Ethiopian philosophy flourished, and it was during this period that the philosophers Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat lived.