ADJ
- ancient, classical
- contemporary, modern
- Eastern, Western
- experimental, moral, natural (historical) , political, religious, social
PHRASES
- the philosophy of history/religion/science
ADJ
- competing, differing
- prevailing
- humanism?the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world
- basic, general, underlying
- personal
- homespun, simple
- the homespun philosophy that kept her going during this difficult period
- liberal
- design, economic, educational, management, market, political, religious, social
- a furniture-maker's design philosophy
VERB + PHILOSOPHY
- develop, formulate
- developing a personal philosophy
- articulate
- adopt, embrace, espouse
- reject
PHILOSOPHY + VERB
- inform sth, underlie sth, underpin sth
- the philosophy underlying the education system
- prevail
- the management philosophy which prevailed at that time
PREP
- ~ behind
- The new measures were introduced with no explanation of the philosophy behind them
PHRASES
- a philosophy of life/mind