One mother had what she thought was an inarguable philosophy vis-a-vis her four-year-old and his love for sweets.
There is, indeed, an extensive literature of medieval commentaries on the Posterior Analytics, and much of this literature is very important; we find in it a great deal of material on the authors' attitudes to necessity, the structure of science, the relation between various sciences, the autonomy of philosophy vis-à-vis theology, and the like.
It is possible that LeBron James was merely inviting a theological discussion, an examination of Eastern philosophy and monotheism vis-a-vis professional sports in the Internet age.
Esotericism is a means toward preserving the limits of philosophy and revelation (or law) vis-à-vis one another.
This is one reason Cohen and Natorp call their critical philosophy "idealism," because its task vis-à-vis culture is to lay out the system of rational principles that make possible the "facts" of science, morality, and art.
In more recent times, the idea that Tempier's condemnation was a symptom of the existence of rationalist currents at the University of Paris, in the sense of the emergence of philosophy as an autonomous discipline vis-à-vis divine revelation, has been further developed by scholars such as Alain de Libera, Kurt Flasch, and Luca Bianchi.
For example, there is considerable work on moral relativism in connection with human rights (with which some forms of relativism are in obvious conflict), political liberalism (which is sometimes allied and sometimes contrasted with relativism) and feminist philosophy (where relativism has been both criticized and defended vis-à-vis feminist concerns).
In this text which was republished in a second edition in 1742 and swiftly translated into German and Italian Châtelet makes precisely the kind of argument that presses Hume a few years later to articulate a conception of the vis inertiae that is consistent with the experimental philosophy.
He had wished to reform philosophy, not as a synthetic science, but with a direct, indispensable, juridical relation vis-à-vis both the natural and human sciences.
4. See also: "I need not examine the vis inertiae which is so much talked of in the new philosophy, and which is ascribed to matter.
Finally, in a footnote at the end of part 1 of section 7 (the section in the Enquiry devoted to the idea of necessary connection), Hume considers the law of inertia (EHU 7.25n16; SBN 73n1): "I need not examine at length the vis inertiae which is so much talked of in the new philosophy, and which is ascribed to matter.
