They found, however, that the ways of thinking, making connections, and approaching problems developed through the rigorous study of philosophy maintained their relevance and value long after graduation.
Neoplatonic philosophy maintained that there could be affinities between living and non-living objects that could cause one to resemble the other.
His Irish team has adopted the Italian philosophy: maintain possession of the ball, defend with vigor, avoid ostentation and danger.
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition (2002), perhaps in resistential defiance of its title, expands that definition to "a mock philosophy maintaining that inanimate objects are hostile to humans or seek to thwart human endeavours".
The Bikram yoga philosophy maintains that if you practice the series every day, you'll need nothing else in your life: no drugs, no gym, no situps, no excess food or cigarettes or unhealthy relationships.
Philosophy maintains metaphysics' goal of producing a synoptic view of human life, but it does so in a merely provisional way, which is open to empirical research that genuinely follows the contours of history.
In reality, their Randian philosophy maintains that that the rich should be rewarded and the poor should fend for themselves.
Despite the obvious similarities to more modern ideas of inertia, Buridan saw his theory as only a modification to Aristotle's basic philosophy, maintaining many other peripatetic views, including the belief that there was still a fundamental difference between an object in motion and an object at rest.
By contrast, Zen's stance of "anti-philosophy" maintains among other things that reason in its discursive use is incapable of knowing and understanding in toto what reality is, for example, what human beings are and what their relation to nature is.
The origin of philosophy, he maintained, lies in man's desire to resolve his anxieties.
Naturally conservative, if not reactionary, I was also impressed that St. Joe's required students to take 18 credits of theology and philosophy, and maintained a strict dress code: maroon blazer, white shirt, gray trousers, maroon tie.
