* The belief that the purpose of philosophy is primarily to serve as an ethical and practical guide.

Reflections on material culture and environmental concerns ( Sustainable design ) can guide a design philosophy.

A design approach is a general philosophy that may or may not include a guide for specific methods.

Nyerere's government had made Ujamaa the philosophy that would guide Tanzania's national development ; ' the government deliberately de-emphasized urban areas to deconcentrate and ruralize industrial growth ( Darkoh, 1994 ).

Industrial Culture Handbook | Re / Search reference guide to the philosophy and interests of a flexible alliance of " deviant " artists.

If someone continues to shave in order to look the part of a respectable Roman citizen, it is clear that they have not yet embraced philosophy conceived as a way of life and have not yet escaped the social customs of the majority ... the true philosopher will only act according to reason or according to nature, rejecting the arbitrary conventions that guide the behavior of everyone else.

Strauss, on the contrary, believed that philosophy and political conditions were fundamentally opposed and that philosophers should not and must not have a role in politics, noting the disastrous results of Plato's attempt to educate and " guide " the tyrant Dion of Syracuse.

He would guide Rabbi Avraham in Talmudic scholarship, and the Malach would teach him Hasidic philosophy.

* A recommended reading guide from the philosophy department of University College, London: London Philosophy Study Guide — Indian Philosophy

However, unlike the Buddhists and Daoists, who saw metaphysics as a catalyst for spiritual development, religious enlightenment, and immortality, the Neo-Confucianists used metaphysics as a guide for developing a rationalist ethical philosophy.

His earlier commitment to philosophy as a guide to truth gave way to a renewed commitment to faith in revelation.

Sciences that guide arts and draw on the philosophical knowledge of nature may produce practical results, but these subsidiary sciences ( e. g., architecture or medicine ) go beyond natural philosophy.

But, if philosophy is like a mother-lode for the nascent sciences, so too like a godmother, philosophy has traditions which can guide her godchildren past ethical and moral quagmires, into which they might stray, to the detriment of their progress.

Neoplatonism is a branch of classical philosophy that uses the works of Plato as a guide to understanding religion and the world.

In the 1870s and 1880s, Motoda Nagazane and other conservatives pushed for a revival of the principles of Confucianism as a guide for education and public morality ; however, Inoue Kowashi and other proponents of the ' modernization ' of Japan felt that this would encourage a return to the old feudal order, and pushed for an " emperor-centered " philosophy.

As a coach, Rijkaard's essential philosophy is to guide his team towards playing attack-minded football as a cohesive unit.

His legalist philosophy describes an interest-driven human nature together with the political methodologies to work with it, in which his laws can be executed to guide humanity, his statecraft can manage human resources, as well as his authority to maintain leadership, all for the interest of the state, and carried out by fishing the subjects of the state by feeding them with interests.

Without the creed of Shema Yisrael (" Hear, O Israel ") philosophy fails to be a trusty guide.

Søren Kierkegaard dismissed all systematic philosophy as an inadequate guide to life and meaning.

The organization has emphasized the study of history and philosophy as a guide to strategy throughout its history.

According to Maimonides, he wrote the Guide " to promote the true understanding of the real spirit of the Law, to guide those religious persons who, adhering to the Torah, have studied philosophy and are embarrassed by the contradictions between the teachings of philosophy and the literal sense of the Torah ,"

In order to use rhetoric for good, rhetoric cannot exist alone ; it must depend on philosophy to guide its morality.

the present-day explorations of outer space, answering age-old questions of science and philosophy, in the face of possible wars of extinction.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

Issues of concern in the philosophy of consciousness include whether the concept is fundamentally valid ; whether consciousness can ever be explained mechanistically ; whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how it can be recognized ; how consciousness relates to language ; and whether it may ever be possible for computers or robots to be conscious.

Many translations are written by people with a foundation in Chinese language and philosophy who are trying to render the original meaning of the text as faithfully as possible into English.

Strictly speaking, neither empiricism nor rationalism is necessarily committed to foundationalism ( it is possible to be an empiricist coherentist, for example, and that was a common epistemological position in 20th century philosophy ).

This revision was more radical than the Seventh but left unchanged the basic structure of the Classification and the general philosophy of classifying diseases, whenever possible, according to their etiology rather than a particular manifestation.

If a philosophy of Becoming is not possible without change, then ( the potential of ) what is to become must already exist in the present object.

A prominent question in metaphilosophy is that of whether or not philosophical progress occurs, and more so, whether such progress in philosophy is even possible.

Minimax ( sometimes minmax ) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case ( maximum loss ) scenario.

Also, by using his many Greek references and showing that his plays were originally Greek, “ It is possible that Plautus was in a way a teacher of Greek literature, myth, art and philosophy ; so too was he teaching something of the nature of Greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches .”

Later he wrote extensively on physics and its philosophy, proposing a theory of gravity in Minkowski space as a logically possible alternative Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Taking Children Seriously ( TCS ) is a parenting movement and educational philosophy whose central idea is that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without either doing anything to them against their will, or making them do anything against their will.

These debates included the question of whether it was possible to do without Heidegger's philosophy, a position which Derrida in particular rejected.

In philosophy, the term world has several possible meanings.

Aquinas showed how it was possible to incorporate much of the philosophy of Aristotle without falling into the " errors " of the Commentator Averroes.

It is thus now possible again to reason about sets in a non-axiomatic fashion without running afoul of Russell's paradox, namely by reasoning about the elements of V. Whether it is appropriate to think of sets in this way is a point of contention among the rival points of view on the philosophy of mathematics.

It is possible that Babylonian philosophy had an influence on Greek philosophy, particularly Hellenistic philosophy.

His work has profoundly influenced analytic philosophy, with his principal contribution being a semantics for modal logic, involving possible worlds as described in a system now called Kripke semantics.

Silenus shared with the king a pessimistic philosophy: That the best thing for a man is not to be born, and if already born, to die as soon as possible.

It is possible that Babylonian philosophy had an influence on Greek, particularly Hellenistic philosophy.

* Marlo Smefner-Thrasher said " Of Space Moose's cohorts, Marlo is probably the most normal " and " Having had somewhat of a moral upbringing, Marlo does not agree with Space's seek-and-destroy philosophy of life, and tries to curb the antlered one's nihilistic ventures whenever possible.