He constantly defended Idealistic, or speculative, philosophy against Pragmatism, neo-Realism, Materialism, and Berkeleian immaterialism.
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, Michael Ruse offers a spirited defense philosophy against the attacks of scientists, some of them his good friends.
Moreover, it became increasingly difficult for Hegel's followers to defend his later philosophy against the charge of having regressed to a pre-Kantian metaphysical dogmatism.
The third work is devoted to a defense of philosophy against his predecessor al-Ghazālī's telling attack directed against Avicenna and al-Qārābī in particular.
Socrates claims to be defending, in effect, the honor of philosophy against those who lack aptitude for it and thereby give it a bad name.
Of course success has to be rated higher than performance, but I don't think we veered far from our philosophy against Argentina.
Pat Gillick, the Seattle general manager, thought enough of Contreras to override the Mariners' philosophy against giving contracts of longer than three years.
In many ways, Arendt's approach is itself quite astonishing, since she is, among other things, trying to defend the relation between Jews and German philosophy against those who would find in German culture and thought the seeds of national socialism.
What the students were doing in 2010, and what they're doing today, is defending art, science and philosophy against a regime that believes none of these things are of any value except as a means to wealth and power.
Still, Mr. Noonan, who is an author of Patent Docs, a blog on biotech patent issues, said the government's stance would endanger innovation because the same philosophy against patenting products isolated from nature might be extended to protein-based drugs and antibiotics.
Without caliphal encouragement Averroës could hardly have persisted all his life in his fight for philosophy against the theologians, as reflected in his Commentary on Plato's Republic, in such works as the Faṣl al-Maḳāl and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, and in original philosophical treatises (e.g., about the union of the active intellect with the human intellect).
