Sentences with phrase «also pragmatists»

For the Lunaticks were not only scientists, but also pragmatists and humanists who believed in and spoke out for concepts like equality and justice.

However, they were also pragmatists, and they couldn't have failed to see how democracy, which was viewed in India as inseparable from the promise of social and economic justice, and the official ideology of secular nationalism were necessary means to contain the country's many sectarian divisions.

He's also a pragmatist.

However I am also a pragmatist.

In response to Jon Snow's suggestion that the AV system did not constitute proportional representation, Nick Clegg claimed he was «both a revolutionary in terms of political reform, but also a pragmatist».

Mehta believes in the dream, too, but he's also a pragmatist: He knows that reality, especially the reality of fixing schools, is much more complicated.

Soichiro Honda may have believed in the power of dreams, as Honda's ad campaign touts, but he was also a pragmatist, and one of his many legacies is that the best Honda products emphasize function over form.

I am a hard sell but also a pragmatist — I want to see results.

«An excellent technician but also a pragmatist.»

But I'm also a pragmatist — and pragmatism is what the HOPE Awards are all about.

Not exact matches

Another prominent liberal of an earlier generation, Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, Governor Mario Cuomo, a self described «progressive pragmatist,» also opposed casino gambling on the same grounds which Mayor LaGuardia did.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

Like the pragmatists, who also thought they were attacking the Enlightenment, they in practice need to presume a more universal moral standard in order to operate.

Third, the texts also showed common positive, though not uncriticized, influences through Bergson and the American pragmatists — chiefly, in Whitehead's case, John Dewey.1 As a result of these positive influences, the texts displayed identical concerns for recovering the concreteness of experience, reinterpreting the body achieving a new understanding of space and time, and elucidating the immediacy of experience as a justification for philosophy itself.

He might have added that the insistence that thought not abstract itself from life would also form a crucial theme for both the existentialists and the pragmatists.

As a linguistic pragmatist I don't believe a tight definition is possible (and yes, I did epistemology in college, but I also did linguistics and psychology and they win out on this one).

He has publicly championed tenants» rights, rent stabilization and affordable housing over the years, but has also earned a reputation among real estate executives as a pragmatist in a sea of reflexively pro-tenant Assembly members.

Churchill was a pragmatist; he also deplored Gandhi's idealism, and was certain that in - fighting would occur among the Muslim and Hindu populations...

Backing Mr. Sanders also represents a rare break from the WFP's liberal, though pragmatist, roots.

Citing a Guardian interview in which Clegg described himself as a «revolutionary» but also a «pragmatist», Llwyd provoked laughter in the chamber when he asked him: «Are you a revolutionary pragmatist or a pragmatic revolutionary?»

I love philosophy, history, theory, etc., but also I'm a pragmatist.

But Mr Gove also said: «I'm a pragmatist not an ideologue, so I don't have any particular opposition to involving any organisation that is going to improve our education.

Or, for those pragmatists among us, it also means that the headphones won't draw as much power from your device when the amp is in use, thereby saving your device's battery life.