Sentence examples for philosophical justification from inspiring English sources

These philosophers denied that morality could be provided with any sound philosophical justification or support in the absence of religious foundations of some relevant kind (e.g. Clarke contra Hobbes).

Not everyone has a philosophical justification for violating the law of the county.

Hume's naturalism lies in his belief that philosophical justification could be rooted only in regularities of the natural world.

Prosecessionists found philosophical justification for altering or abolishing a government and instituting a new one in the Declaration of Independence.

He is seeking, as he says repeatedly, a principled philosophical justification of the special treatment religion seems to receive in the Constitution.

In this view, all classifications of the sciences, or divisions of their subject matter, were seen as artificial, valuable at best only administratively, but without philosophical justification.

The philosophical justifications mutate, but their essential character (Nietzsche v nature) remains the same.

Aue is interested in the potential philosophical justifications for the mass murder of Jews and regularly consults Plato.

In contradiction of Danto's assertion that all art is now conceptual art, Ofili's work, which is among the best contemporary painting, is powerful as a result of its "physical attributes," its exuberance and aesthetic refinement, not its "philosophical justifications".

These Judeo-Christian representations have been relayed using different authoritative currents of thought through scientific and philosophical justifications for animal subordination and use.

Although the lines that separate one theory from another are not always distinct, philosophical justifications of political obligation nowadays usually take the form of arguments from consent, gratitude, fair play, membership, or natural duty.