Sentences with phrase «western intellectual tradition»

They are uniquely qualified to preserve the most precious of legacies: the Western intellectual tradition, which is linked to an openness to the human condition wherever it is found....

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Never mind that the Christian intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.

The study of NT, however, still remains as a branch within the intellectual tradition of the Western Enlightenment era.

While most intellectual historians agree in ranking Russell among the giants of this century, and even accord him a place of honor in the entire 2500 - year history of the Western philosophical tradition, the judgment is still not in on Whitehead's role and place in that history.

Nevertheless the Italian Communist party (CPI) has a tradition of flexibility, humanism, and appeal to intellectuals that is perhaps unique in the Western world.

While I have come to recognize the value of such schools for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.