Though it rambles here and there, a few firm philosophies underpin this column.
Eastern philosophies that ask you to contemplate your mortality are not that popular with our culture".
The battle must be fought as a conflict of rival philosophies.
The success of these parties has revealed a "deep anxiety, distrust and alienation from the institutions and core philosophies of Europe" that cannot be ignored, he said in comments released to the Times.
As a recent arts graduate, full of debt and still fresh with ideological philosophies and an unhealthy obsession with hummus, I found myself back at home and looking for work.
But recently a couple of not entirely unrelated developments have refocused attention on the differing philosophies behind processor design; and why Intel the semiconductor powerhouse that has dominated computing for decades is suddenly having to play catch-up, as mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers start to suck the air out of the chip giant's traditional business.
A conservative prankster promptly filed a petition to confiscate the house of Mr Souter, one of the majority, and build a "Lost Liberty Hotel" over it.Although strict constructionism is not the same as conservatism, the two philosophies often coincide.
Mr Young complained that the Forest Service had begun to manage its lands according to the tenets of a movement called Deep Ecology, which espouses a set of beliefs drawn from various philosophies and eastern religions.
And though the parties have different tax philosophies, changes to policy have had little influence on growth.
And yet another is a law to cap rising rents, which is likely just to discourage the building of new properties.The differences between foreign economists who want more stimulus and German ones who think the problems lie elsewhere partly reflect diverging philosophies.
Philipp Blom's latest book tells the story of a set of remarkable individuals on the radical fringes of the 18th-century European Enlightenment, whose determinedly atheistic and materialist philosophies denied the existence of God or the soul.
