The question becomes whether there is a way to build a bridge that unites Americans around issues that matter rather than separating them from one another based upon philosophical predispositions.
In addition to hermeneutical arguments regarding historicism, anti-historicism, literary style and poetic license, arguments about the picture of Hasidism that emerged out of Buber's research and writing are also based upon the philosophical world picture as it took shape in Buber's philosophical universe.
The Dominican order has continued to be noted for an unswerving orthodoxy, based upon the philosophical and theological teaching of Aquinas, and has steadfastly opposed novelty or accommodation in theology.
The design, framing and analysis of this research was based upon the philosophical foundations of the social constructionist perspectives that guided us to understand how people interpret and make sense of experiences within particular socio-cultural, political and historical contexts [ 11, 24].
This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth".
One of these is that "every positivistic observation language is based upon a metaphysical ontology" (Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, p. 21).
Śāntarakṣita was one of the most influential figures in the early dissemination of Buddhism in Tibet, founding the first Buddhist monastery at Samye, serving as its first abbot, ordaining the first seven Tibetan monks, and establishing a system of rigorous philosophical study based upon the traditions of learning at the great Indian Buddhist monastic universities such as Nalanda and Vikramaśīla.
Moreover, in the 14th century there was apparently a sort of "Jewish Ghazalism", based upon al-Ghazali's works (both philosophical and theological ones), so that many aspects of his thought as a typical Islamic thinker were curiously employed for defending some similar aspects of Jewish religious tradition.
Precisely how and to what extent his philosophical work was based upon logical and mathematical concepts, or how his logical writings might clarify and extend ideas developed in his other works, will require a much more comprehensive examination and analysis of the logical writings than has yet been undertaken.
Equally so, some of the justifications are based upon research or experience, or might reflect philosophical perspectives on how to best achieve broader acceptance and utilization of HIV testing.
