The difference between lying and bullshit, wrote the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, is less a question of a statement's relation to the truth than of the motivation of the person making it.
Olivi was very far from a slavish admirer of Aristotle's, and his theory of the nature of the soul and its relation to the body differs radically from those medieval interpretations which endeavor to be faithful to the Philosopher.
Political philosophers have taken the organization of sex and reproduction to be essential to the health of the state, and moral philosophers have debated whether marriage has a special moral status and relation to the human good.
For instance, philosophers came to question how divine causal activity is to be understood, particularly, in relation to the natural causality of creatures.
The aim of the philosopher of science was not to understand the methods per se, but to use them to reconstruct theories, their meanings, and their relation to the world.
Timothy Leary and Buckminster Fuller called themselves "performing philosophers," using the power of media communication to spread galactic-sized ideas about the state of the species in relation to the wider universe.
In relation to the previous step, RAVE.
According to the philosopher Jay Bernstein, "trust relations provide the ethical substance of everyday living... Trust relations are relations of mutual recognition in which we acknowledge our mutual standing and vulnerability with respect to one another".
A second area that is beginning to be explored is that of Bosanquet's relation to philosophers of succeeding generations in Britain, such as R.G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott.
For example, the Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus (flourished 1st century ad) wished to restrict marital sexual relations to the production of offspring.
