Sentences with phrase «abstract philosophical discussion»

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

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Even today philosophical discussions of justice tend to be theoretical and abstract.

In philosophical theology par excellence these three items are welded together indissolubly — abstract concepts, concrete matters of fact, practical affairs — so that Weiss's comments are of special relevance for us in our discussion at this conference.

Just like «In my day,» sentiments such as «in a perfect world» only begin abstract, philosophical discussions.