Sentence examples for philosophical ground from inspiring English sources

In that endeavour he ventured onto philosophical ground that was entirely untrodden.

Today Mr Straw occupies Mr Callaghan's old seat as home secretary, and he also seems to occupy his predecessor's philosophical ground.

Humans treads old philosophical ground and seems to ignore the fact that technology is becoming less prominent in our lives at the same time as increasing its grip.

But the fact is that while Ms. Pelosi's liberalism might have a bit more of a San Francisco edge to it than Mr. Obama's progressivism, the two share plenty of common philosophical ground and have similar policy goals.

Descartes' cogito ergo sum broke new philosophical ground by locating the source of all certain knowledge in the thinking self, and providing an account of human understanding that was independent of God.

If "Justice" breaks no new philosophical ground, it succeeds at something perhaps no less important: in terms we can all understand, it confronts us with the concepts that lurk, so often unacknowledged, beneath our conflicts.

Although physics does not seem to challenge these two theses, several philosophers do challenge them on distinctively philosophical grounds.

Although a number of feminist philosophers criticize Gilligan's investigations on empirical or philosophical grounds (Fraser and Nicholson 1990; Moody-Adams 1991; Friedman 1993; Card 1996), her research prompted a number of feminist philosophers to develop social ethics perspectives marked by quite different emphases from those of traditional moral theories.

Since Lascasianism has philosophical grounds and implications, but is a product of amateur philosophers, it stands out as a prime borderline case between the realms of academic and non-academic philosophy.

Still others objected on philosophical grounds.

On philosophical grounds, perhaps they can.