But promoting Maimonides meant engaging philosophy more generally as well.
This would mean that they are required to engage philosophy on its turf, just as Ion has somewhat reluctantly done.
It is perhaps natural, then, that the most common way of engaging philosophy throughout the Middle Ages consisted in writing commentaries on what were considered authoritative philosophical texts, and particularly works by Aristotle.
Stephen Plaister is less engaged with philosophy and has little contact with Wittgenstein.
The requirement that we eliminate all contraries to some proposition, h, before we are entitled to believe that h is too stringent for ordinary contexts, for the reasons already cited, but perhaps when engaged in philosophy we have to be justified in believing that the skeptical hypothesis is false before the propositions of common sense are justified.
To prepare herself for the part, she engaged a philosophy professor at Columbia University for three months to read with him Plato and Kant and Heidegger and so on.
Throughout this book, Sacks' analysis reflects an erudite mind fully engaged with philosophy, politics and social studies of the most rigorous kind.
After discussion the Freudian theory of the instincts for four chapters, Marcuse takes a break from Freud and engages philosophy instead.
But sometimes physicists are, whether they realize it or not, actually engaging in philosophy themselves.
But to the extent that psychology takes on questions about basic human values, it is taking on a humanistic dimension that needs to engage with philosophy and the other disciplines — history, art, literature, even theology — that are essential for grappling with the question of happiness.
