Sentence examples for previous philosophy from inspiring English sources

Its previous philosophy meant that the regulator focused primarily on the management controls and systems that banks had in place.

Their thought was informed not just by previous philosophy but by politics, religion, and science — the whole intellectual and spiritual life of their times.

Nishida intended his theory of place or topos to provide a logical foundation for his previous philosophy of experience and self-awareness.

Descartes was, in the Discourse, suggesting that it was no accident that the philosophy he learned at La Flèche was uncertain: previous philosophy was bound to be uncertain, since he (Descartes) was now offering a first glimpse of the one true philosophy that he had only recently discovered.

Some scholars have indeed claimed that Aristotelianism collapsed, but such an assertion does not take into account the non-Aristotelian components of previous philosophies and the permanent acceptance of Aristotelian doctrines in the new ones.

In Chapters 1 and 2, to find a differential genetic principle, Deleuze works through the history of philosophy to isolate the concepts of "difference in itself" and "repetition for itself" that the assumptions of previous philosophies had prevented from being formulated.

Of special pertinence for topics concerning women and gender in everyday aesthetics is the rise of attention to a subject absent in previous philosophies: pregnancy and motherhood--topics also explored in contemporary feminist and postfeminist art, as noted above (Lintott and Sander-Staudt 2011).

In previous centuries philosophy had been dangerous for philosophers; with Nietzsche it becomes dangerous for everyone.

The Sky Crane, as the new lander was called, turned NASA's previous design philosophy on its head.

In particular, it made much more of the alleged errors of metaethical naturalism than Sidgwick or Rashdall had, saying they vitiated most previous moral philosophy.

The Poznań group regards idealization as the secret to modern science and finds it remarkable that virtually all previous analytic philosophy of science remains Aristotelian in treating proposed laws and theories not as ideal models but as true or false statements directly about the real world (Nowak 1980 and later writings; see also Krajewsky 1977).