philosophically

From philosophical +‎ -ly.

philosophically (comparative more philosophically, superlative most philosophically)

1. With regards to philosophy
   • 1993, Rod Preece, Lorna Chamberlain, Animal Welfare & Human Values, page 126:

     In reality, while the utilitarian and ‘end-in-itself’ views may be philosophically distinct they are in fact intertwined in a complex and probably unravellable manner within the various personalities representing the competing views.

   • 2007 March 26, Ginia Bellafante, “A Nearly Unbeatable Team and the Man Behind It”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But he did not subscribe to the winning-is-the-only-thing school, either philosophically or managerially.

   • 2014, Vincent Leitch, Theory Matters, page 37:

     […] it privileges philosophically oriented theory, disregarding popular forms such as, in the present case, anonymous and collective modes of authorship typical of TV, cinema, advertising, street ballads, and compunovels.

2. In a philosophical manner.
   • 1888, H.P.Blavatsky, Mabel Collins, Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine:

     To the (philosophically) trained Pantheist, the abstraction, or the noumenon,
     is the ever to be unknown Deity, the on eternal reality, formless, because homogeneous
     and impartite; ...

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:

     She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.