Berman's superb essay rightly calls upon defenders of the liberal tradition to confront the ideas behind militant Islam with an alternative philosophical vision.

Other types of social science are seen, on this view, as being poetic or philosophical visions, but not as science.

The mathematician goes beyond this, offering a kind of philosophical vision as well.

The grander design of a new rural social structure needed a philosophical vision that could inspire and motivate.

But these shortcomings may perhaps be forgiven in a man whose philosophical vision was as powerful as any since Plato's.

They were affirming a continuity of philosophical vision from Dacians, via folklore, to contemporary authors.

In this work he analyses the conceptual paradigm that serves as a means of evaluation of diverse philosophical visions by Romanians.

In essence Spencer's philosophical vision was formed by a combination of deism and positivism.

And it had probably (he tried to console himself afterward) been too philosophical a vision to do him any good anyway.

Zhang based his philosophical vision on the doctrine of three natures.