A sample of such wider and more foundational theories is the entry Aquinas' moral, political, and legal philosophy.
On the other hand, the expected close integration of RRI with ongoing research projects may provide some challenges for more foundational investigations of scientific concepts and assumptions.
Thus construed, positivism, for example, would seek to explain the nature of law by reducing facts about what the law is, how it functions and what it requires, to more foundational social facts e.g., about people's behavior, beliefs and dispositions.
Moral phenomenology is normative moral theory, for him, and there is no more foundational theory no set of general principles of which we might avail ourselves.
But the movement understood itself as engaged in a struggle for something more foundational: for citizenship, the status from which freedom and equal rights flowed.
The goal of a first-order theory, on this sort of view, is to offer a metaphysical reduction of law: that is, to show that the phenomenon of law is actually constituted by, and fully reducible to, some other more foundational type of phenomenon (in the way that chemistry could in principle be reduced to particle physics).
He lost Illinois by a wide margin to Mitt Romney two days after saying that his campaign "does not hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates," because "there's something more foundational that's going on here".
In particular, reductionist views take it that illuminating the nature of law is a matter of explaining what the law is, and how it operates, in terms of more foundational facts.
Another reason that Kant's account of the highest good is important is that Kant often portrays the highest good as a social good for us to strive for collectively, and which we may view history as leading toward; this shows Kant's ethics to be less abstract and individualistic and more concerned with social and political progress than some of his more foundational writings suggest it is.
Satanic Blood and Blood Angel were two of the more foundational records in the Norwegian black metal scene's early days.
