Highway systems are generally planned to avoid high-density areas insofar as is possible.
Therefore, rational agents are free in a negative sense insofar as any practical matter is at issue.
Insofar as they are requirements of practical reason, moral obligations are universally and necessarily binding for all rational beings.
However, given the epistemological status attributed to philosophy by Althusser, these metaphysical propositions or "theses" are true only insofar as they have explanatory or practical value.
First, the contrast just drawn might suggest that there is a categorial difference in the consequences of theoretical and practical reason, insofar as the former produces changes in our mental states, whereas the latter gives rise to bodily movements.
Unlike Avicenna, who prepared the way for him by clearly distinguishing between theoretical and practical science, Ibn Bājjah is concerned with practical science only insofar as it is relevant to the life of the philosopher.
My respect for such a law is thus not qualified: my respect for the laws of my club, city, constitution or religion guides me in practical affairs only insofar as they do not require me to violate laws laid down by my own practical reason, but my respect for the deliverances of my own reason does not depend on whether it requires me to violate the former sorts of laws.
In addition, this observation bodes ill for the Kantian, insofar as it asserts the possibility of practical agency for those who do not view themselves as diachronically unified, i.e., unified practical agency may indeed not be a practical necessity.
The first principle of the Jena Wissenschaftslehre is thus equally "practical" and "theoretical," insofar as the act described by this principle is a "doing" as well as a "knowing," a deed as well as a cognition.
Insofar as his more academic research carried a practical political point, this concerned the need for expanding and improving educational opportunities for all.
First, it is practical in its subject matter, insofar as it is concerned with action.
