He showed that the essential aim of liberal internationalism was to open the world to American enterprise.» (firstthings.com)
This new presence can make us brave, and bravery — even more than theoretical acumen — is the antidote to oppression because acts of bravery lead to new perceptions; in contrast, acts of shrewdness, even when they are subject to correction, lead only to new tactics and so can not adjust their essential aims or lead to new empirical discoveries about the world. (religion-online.org)
Daly's affirmation of process philosophy in Beyond God the Father prefaced the warning that women must beware of easy acquiescence to prefabricated theory, since the essential aim of feminist theology / philosophy is to elicit, express, and interpret women's experience (BGF 189). (religion-online.org)