Sentences with phrase «abstract ideals such»

He is concerned to defeat «secular ideology», «the forces of technocracy», «rationalist, utilitarian and transactional» politics, «materialist» politics and even «abstract ideals such as progress and freedom of choice».

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Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

This is the worth of such occasions; and it must be remembered that that worth is itself not abstract or «ideal».

But such moments are thankfully few and far between, allowing for a more genuine admiration of the man: This Lincoln isn't an abstracted, infallible ideal, but rather a deeply conflicted, often lonely leader simply trying to do the right thing — even if that means a few wrong things along the way.