central idea
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“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The central idea was the same: to have more control over their creations.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
“I didn’t want you to know how ugly the world is,” he explains, laying out the film’s central idea.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
The new kind of fair mobility is a central idea of degrowth.
From Salon • May 3, 2024
Kant's central idea is that truth, beauty, goodness, are not dependent on some qualities of the object, but on the universal nature or law of consciousness.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich