"founding philosophy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the core principles or beliefs that a person, organization, or institution was built upon. For example: "The company's founding philosophy of innovation and customer-centricity has been the driving force behind their success."
"We are going to fight". But globalisation worries the Elseners, whose founding philosophy is one of old-fashioned paternalism.
That is the founding philosophy of the Get it Loud in Libraries project, which challenges the stereotype of whisper only noise levels.
In a speech, Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno articulated the Pancasila the Five Principles that became the founding philosophy of the independent Indonesian state.
The election of Donald Trump has flattened the poetry in America's founding philosophy: the country born from an idea of freedom is to be governed by an unstable, stubbornly uninformed, authoritarian demagogue.
But to do so undercuts his founding philosophy and, in the view of some of Facebook's members, its distinctive appeal: guaranteeing members privacy and control over the information they post.
It's fitting that this dry-witted designer, who once studied linguistics and history at the Sorbonne, describes his founding philosophy as "dignified, no show-off, quality and maybe cynical, too".
He founded Western philosophy in the sense that all intellectual inquiry before him is deemed to be "pre-Socratic" and all Western philosophy since him, in the words of Alfred North Whitehead, an English philosopher of the early 20th century, mere "footnotes" to the 35 Platonic dialogues in which Socrates was the main character.
The first two of these theses dramatically overturned the sort of dualistic picture of the relation between language and thought/meaning that had predominated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and thereby essentially founded the philosophy of language as we still know it today.
This has profound implications upon aesthetics, which is always founded upon philosophy.
An additional influence was George Gurdjieff (c. 1872 1949), who founded the philosophy of the Fourth Way, through which he conveyed a number of spiritual teachings to his disciples.
As Singer et al state, "clinical ethics is not founded in philosophy, law, or theology but, instead, is a subdiscipline of medicine, centering upon the doctor-patient relationship".
