Sentence examples for side of philosophy from inspiring English sources
They read much in the writings of the ancients, says Josephus (hence, no doubt, the many scrolls in the caves), yet (Philo) they do not cultivate the logical side of philosophy, do not expend "any superfluous care on examining Greek names" (by which is evidently meant such subtle discussions of words as one gets in the dialogues of Plato), but only occupy themselves with the moral side.
At other times, Seneca dismisses certain technicalities and emphasizes the therapeutic, practical side of philosophy.
Wundt calls this side of philosophy Prinzipienlehre or "doctrine of principles".
(Cf. also Scheffler's Conditions of Knowledge (1965), still the best introduction to the epistemological side of philosophy of education, and his Reason and Teaching (1973/1989), which in a wide-ranging and influential series of essays makes the case for regarding the fostering of rationality/critical thinking as a fundamental educational ideal.
Which side of that philosophy you're on is up to you.
In 1893 came Plato and Platonism, giving an extremely literary view of Plato and neglecting the logical and dialectical side of his philosophy.
The destructive or critical side of the philosophy of the Treatise is simply the other side of the same irreligious, anti-Christian coin.
Not only do we find powerful defenses of religious belief in all three Critiques, but a considerable share of Kant's work in the 1790s is devoted to the positive side of his philosophy of religion.
On the side of moral philosophy, it is clear that the natural law view is incompatible with a nihilism about value, that is, the rejection of the existence of values.
The dark side of this philosophy is that its repercussions cascade and ripples out and down all the way to the bottom of the ladder.
As the "practical, political side" of Taoist philosophy, Arthur Waley translated them as "abstention from aggressive war and capital punishment", "absolute simplicity of living", and "refusal to assert active authority".
