When Ibn 'Arabî talks about imagination as one of the heart's two eyes, he is using the language that philosophers established in speaking of the soul's faculties.
John Stuart Mills, one of the greatest, if not the master, of all liberal philosophers established the harm principle.
In the perspective of a pagan philosopher, Aristides' Apology begins with a discussion of the harmony in creation and, in the manner of the Stoic philosophers, establishes a correlation with the Divine Being responsible for the creation and preservation of the universe.
After his arrival in 1917, philosopher Ralph Tyler Flewelling established USC as a bastion of personalism.
The philosopher Pythagoras established himself there about 530 bc and formed a society of 300 disciples who were sympathetic toward aristocratic government.
The Greek philosopher Epictetus established this way of thinking two and a half millennia ago, but it's best summed up in this 19th century version: "Who is fit to govern others?
So the stark ontology of the mechanical philosopher is established a priori by appealing to a notion of intelligibility.
The traditional idea that art is a special vehicle for the expression of important truths is the basis for the work of the philosopher who established the framework for German thought for much of the 18th century, namely, Christian Wolff (1679 1754).
Already in 1979, the philosopher Hans Jonas established moral guidelines regarding the potentially destructive impact of modern technologies.
The great philosopher Joseph Campbell established that when we are out in nature, there is no accounting for the aggregate of ways it affects us beneficially, and today doctors across the country are writing prescriptions for healthy doses of nature to address a myriad conditions.
His major work, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which established the normative view of Islam, denounced all such rational attempts by "heretics", among whom he included the likes of Plato and Aristotle, to understand the mind of God, who rules absolutely and arbitrarily, without recourse to any so-called "laws of nature".
