Is this proposed doctrine unprecedented?
But the play's reputation rested largely on the long, elaborate preface, in which Hugo proposed a doctrine of Romanticism that for all its intellectual moderation was extremely provocative.
Whether any ancient philosophers proposed a doctrine of progress is a matter of scholarly contention (Bury 1932, 11; Nesbit 1994, xi).
The "theme of our time" reflected the absolutist tendencies of rationalism and the skeptical inclinations of relativism and, therefore, he proposed his doctrine of "the point of view as a third view of the process of knowledge, which is a perfect synthesis of the two" (Obras, 3: 198, 198).
As the world became wary of China's growing role as a major power, Zheng proposed the doctrine of "China's peaceful rise".
He then proposes a doctrine of integration, meaning cooperation with other world powers to address common problems.
In proposing this doctrine Grosseteste appears concerned to maintain the simplicity of the soul.
Grosseteste appears to have been the first in the Latin West to propose a doctrine of unequal infinities.
Thus rather than proposing a doctrine of intervention many liberals propose various principles of toleration which specify to what extent liberals must tolerate non-liberal peoples and cultures.
Concerns about the inherent intelligibility, or lack thereof, of the physical world, prompt Plato to propose the doctrine of recollection, i.e., the thesis that our disembodied, immortal souls have seen the Forms prior to their incarceration in the body.
