Socrates' exposure and criticism of the ancients' error no doubt hints at what Plato sees as his philosophical forerunners' failure to recognize the essential stability of values.
And yet, the project also represents a philosophical and political failure for the time we are in.
Ms. Jung, who said she believed that Penney had not done enough to build up a big cosmetics presence in the stores, is philosophical about the failure.
Tsonga was philosophical about his failure to end a drought almost as long as Britain's in the men's singles here, for not since Yvon Petra in 1946 has a Frenchman won Wimbledon.
From her philosophical, historical, and journalistic failures, Arendt created an accidental literary masterwork despite itself.
But to discount philosophical strivings for their failure in the political realm is to reduce the former quite inappropriately to the latter.
Ellis, though confident that he will be vindicated, is philosophical about the potential failure of a theory that he, and thousands of other physicists, have worked on for their entire careers.
Moreover, the Newtonians argued, if a set of irrefutable facts cannot be explained other then by accepting the brute facticity of their truth, this is not a failure of philosophical explanation so much as a devotion to appropriate rigor.
Plutarch's polemics were fuelled by the view he shares with Hellenistic philosophers that the end of philosophy is to support ethical life (see e.g. De profectibus in virtute); if a school's ethical ideal is unrealizable or, worse, unworthy of human nature, this for Plutarch (as for Antiochus, Cicero, De finibus 5.13, 5.89) is evidence that the entire philosophical system is a failure.
Whenever a problem cries out for a national solution, especially for federal assistance through a public means bridging over market failure, Ryan will likely find it next to impossible, given his philosophical premises, to contemplate such failure.
