The parameters of respectful disagreement have engendered interesting debate.[7] Reconstructing philosophy.
Reconstructing philosophy can also require acknowledging that privilege plays a role in the construction of epistemic ignorance and epistemic injustice.
When trying to reconstruct the philosophy of Heraclitus, for example, modern scholars rely above all on the actual quotations from Heraclitus' book preserved in later authors.
With the exception of poetry written while on Alexander's expedition (which, as far as we can tell, did not survive that expedition), Pyrrho wrote nothing; we are therefore obliged to try to reconstruct his philosophy from reports by others.
In 1963 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh, which was in the process of reconstructing its philosophy department and quickly became a top-ranked department.
For Strauss, a recognition, and not a resolution, of the tensions and contradictions that define human society is the necessary starting point for philosophically reconstructing a philosophy, theology, and politics of moderation, all of which, he claims, the twentieth-century desperately needs.
Contemporary commentators seek to reconstruct Kant's philosophy of mathematics from the vantage of Kant's own historical context and also to identify the elements of Kant's philosophy of mathematics that are of eternal philosophical interest.
In this treatise Lipsius attempts not only to reconstruct Stoic natural philosophy in detail, following the traditional didactic order of the doxographical tradition, but also to reassert its importance for Stoic ethics and theology.
I shall reconstruct Arendt's political philosophy along four major themes: (1) her conception of modernity, (2) her theory of action, (3) her theory of judgment, and (4) her conception of citizenship.
