Sentences with phrase «made of the political nature»

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In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

An announcement made today (April 6) by Rob Goldman, VP, ads, and Alex Himel, VP, local pages, states that it will now only allow verified advertisers to run «issue ads» — ie those of a political nature — on the social network, including picture - sharing service Instagram.

Before accepting Hart's statement that «Rand was definitely on the side of barbarism,» make sure you've read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and her two political essays, «Man's Rights» and «The Nature of Government.»

In short, a strong case can be made for saying that, as both the common good of society and the particular good of citizens is now threatened by political voluntarism, so also both the common and particular good of lovers (and families) is threatened by the voluntaristic and limited nature of the promises and undertakings that typically characterize the new reformers» account of sexual relations.

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

The founding fathers of the liberal tradition from Hegel to Rousseau understood the feminine as woman's biological nature, lack of political consciousness, emotionality, irrationality, all of which made her a threat to public life and citizenship.

Note that both Clark and the Bellah group employ the derived from formulation in describing the Lockean view: the authority inherent in the social and political bonds is derived from a contract made by individuals in a state of nature.

There is thus a cosmic, divine hierarchy in which human values, including equality, make sense and there is a clear notion that God is above and superior to men just as the laws of nature transcend and take priority over the laws of political society.

Native Americans in California never developed large - scale political institutions like the Iroquois or the «Five Civilized Tribes» of the southern Atlantic coast, because nature's bounty made organized trade and warfare largely unnecessary.

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

We are fortunate when we can protect a tree that has been provided by nature, but to make the extra effort of applying human labour to plant trees and subsequently hack them down for firewood, is a reflection of the thoughtlessness of both the contractor, political authority, and the littlemindedness of those who could not protect the shady trees.

The discontent they have generated and their contentious nature have made Costa Rica, a country usually known for political moderation and avoidance of political extremes, a fertile ground for a demagogue like Juan Diego Castro, who has managed to stand out from the rest of the candidates by fashioning himself as a brazen and outspoken outsider, even though he was a Minister from 1994 - 97.

The ideological nature of Iran's system makes it difficult to bet on political and economic reforms capabilities.

This kind of interdisciplinary engagement may also have the side benefit of heightening the theorist's reflective awareness of the underlying sociological assumptions — about power, human nature, the main tendencies of social life and so on — that s / he inevitably makes in constructing a political vision of how the world ought to be.

Many of the people who were making speeches spoke about a new constitution because that's been a promise of the political elite since 1944 but I could not put it forward as demand number four because of the nature of it.

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

Neglecting as they do the great transformations that Indian society has undergone in the last two decades for an account in which everything is timeless, they are unable to grasp the nature even of those political circumstances making for the controversy in which they are engaged.

For the limited scope of this study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human nature.

The UN said we simply can't make these decisions as they are of a political nature and have to be made by the Timorese.

In a debate at the East Hampton Library last month, all three candidates were largely in sync on many of the issues, though Mr. Bragman, a political newcomer, made several efforts to criticize and draw a distinction between himself and Mr. Cohen, who is chairman of the town's nature preserve committee.

Andy Burnham: I hear what the hon. Gentleman says and I hope that he is not trying to make a party political issue out of the bid, because the strength of our Olympic bid was its cross-party nature.

The issue - specific nature of school board work makes the leap to broader political representation tough, Oxley added.

The bell - weather nature of the seat makes it political dynamite and it also ensures the by - election will be nastily fought.

For my money, The Ides Of March — with its dark view of human nature and satisfyingly twisty plot — is one of the most entertaining films ever made about the political procesOf March — with its dark view of human nature and satisfyingly twisty plot — is one of the most entertaining films ever made about the political procesof human nature and satisfyingly twisty plot — is one of the most entertaining films ever made about the political procesof the most entertaining films ever made about the political process.

The movie makes a few jokes about the absurd but pleasant nature of musicals, with Hannigan confused by Stack's political aide (Bobby Cannavale) breaking into song in order to convince her to betray Annie.

A radically different vision of human well - being is the call; one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives, even as it leaves the natural world a better and much improved place.

In this context, a radically different vision of human well - being, one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, and one that empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives.

Furthermore, the challenges associated with the use of student achievement data, and the political nature in which these processes were mandated in the first place, all make this a very challenging problem to address.

I do think the multi-year nature of contracts is one reason states and districts must work to do something the political process normally makes almost impossible to do — multi-year thinking about solutions.

In an article titled «Teacher Reflection In a Hall of Mirrors: Historical Influences and Political Reverberations» (2003), the researcher Lynn Fendler makes the case that teachers are already reflective by nature as they continuously make adjustments in instruction.

There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas.

While some works in the volume are overtly political — Ai Weiwei's irreverent CCTV Spray (2012) guides readers in making a spray - can device that can block out surveillance cameras — others more subtly reference the complex nature of cultural exchange in a rapidly globalizing world.

Here, Artspace's Loney Abrams speaks with the artist about the influence of Abstract Experssionism, society's ever - changing conceptions of nature, and what it means to make work about the body and trauma during a moment in history when these topics are at the forefront of socio - political conversation.

Through their work, they are searching for ways to make language testify to some socio - political injury that is otherwise structurally invisible most of the time: heteronormativity, media - bias, structural racism and sexism, psycho - normativity, the foundational nature of slavery to the US economy, and US - backed authoritarianism abroad.

Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.

Political art tries to explain something, and so does formalism, by making explicit the nature of a medium.

While nature, relative proximity to the city, space, and affordability may be the most obvious appeals of the Catskills, what the area also offers is that complex dynamic between town and country — a chance to measure how urban notions of culture fit within the rural setting, and the kinds of esthetic, social, and political navigations that artists make in dealing with the land and its people.

The «Vitamin C» artist speaks about society's ever - changing conceptions of nature, and what it means to make work about the body and trauma during a moment in history when these topics are at the forefront of socio - political conversation.

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

However, recognising the political nature of this process, we highlight the benefits and trade - offs associated with each to help informed decision - making.

For instance, it makes a political priority out of finding some relationship of «balance» between nature and the human world, rather than addressing the problems caused by inequality within it.

The editorial skewered academic doubters of man - made Global Warming as the «climate - change - denialist fringe» and in a shocking Freudian - slip the Nature editorial roared its political partisanship:

These two sets of challenges, those related to time - scale and those related to the global nature of climate change, are not in the classes that have traditionally yielded to the free - market mechanisms and political decision making that historically characterise Canada and the U.S. (see Section 14.5).

When Bill McKibben, longtime global warming activist and author of The End of Nature, read these words, he started a new grassroots climate movement called 350.org «to make sure everyone knows the target so that our political leaders feel real pressure to act.»

From ephemeral works that erode with time or emphasize the timelessness of nature, to works making a more political statement, it seems that the general role of environmental art is to prompt contemplation about the greater meaning of human engagement in nature, in relation to its cyclic processes.

But make no mistake about it, the very nature of its existence is setting a dangerous precedent in our politics: That Congressmen, lacking any formal expertise, may find it in their province to directly refute scientific findings they deem inconvenient for political gain.

Energy and Environment was one of the first — it makes no secret of its political nature.

It stated that the Petitions Committee can not make decisions binding on other EU institutions or bodies of the Parliament and the means of action available to it, when handlin the petition, are political in nature and not binding.

As to the former, the scale of the legal preparations required in advance of Brexit, together with the constricted nature of the time period available, create a political imperative that makes inevitable what the Committee calls a «massive transfer of legislative competence» from Parliament to Government.

Under state law, advertisers who provide political advertising during a campaign must make available the names and addresses of the people it accepted the ads from, the exact nature and extent of the advertising and the «consideration and the manner of paying».