Sentences with phrase «as pragmatists»

Most of those Democrats either had no record or seemed prepared to run as pragmatists.

But as the pragmatists were transforming higher thought at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago, and in the culture at large, another thinker was extending pragmatism well beyond the instrumentalist conception.

First, Kaufman is quite right, as Kaplan's own testimony suggests, to view Kaplan as a pragmatist.

You say that doesn't matter — again: that is because of YOUR central convictions (as a pragmatist... and an atheist?).

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.

As for what went wrong, the NYT notes that Clinton «has always come across as a pragmatist more than a dreamer, and she rarely intones a vision of America that is broadly inspiring».

Maloney had campaigned from the outset as a pragmatist with an independent voting record, touting his collaboration with Republicans at all levels of government and recent endorsements of him by state Sens. William Larkin Jr. and Greg Ball and New Windsor Supervisor George Green, all of them stalwart Republicans.

Since then, Maloney has focused on building a record as a pragmatist who is willing to both vote against his party when necessary and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to get things done.

As both a pragmatist and a democrat, Cook declared his support for a Scottish parliament in a television studio on election night, and became a convinced advocate of the reform.

Duncan, known for transforming underperforming schools and experimenting with new models, has a record as a pragmatist with a taste for innovations.

As the pragmatist John Dewey might have it, Grotjahn makes art as a sentient «live creature,» with art, rather than nature, forming the basis of the common culture.

Not exact matches

Holcomb, who replaced Mike Pence and is seen as more of a pragmatist, appointed a female obstetrician - gynecologist to be his new health commissioner.

We are pragmatists as well as idealists.

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

«Scattered throughout these essays are self - affixed labels such as «we anti-representationists,» «we Western liberal intellectuals,» «we partisans of solidarity,» «we pragmatists,» «we new fuzzies,» «us shepherds of Being,» «we enlightened post-Kuhnians,» «we anti-essentialists,» «we moderns,» «we humans,» «we bourgeois liberals,» «we Deweyans,» «we pragmatic Wittgensteinean therapists.»

Reflection or meditatio does not naturally recommend itself to us; as a matter of fact, since most of us are energetic «doers» and high pragmatists, reflection seems like a most unproductive pastime.

The pragmatists rightly emphasize the intelligent charting of consequences, but such concepts as satisfaction, adjustment, problem solving, growth, and harmonious interaction do not provide a sufficient basis for judgments of worth.

At many points the influence of John Dewey and other pragmatists will be evident, particularly their belief in democracy as a comprehensive way of life, their confidence in the wide relevance of the scientific spirit and methods, and their commitment to education as a moral enterprise.

In modern philosophy of religion the I of the I - It relation steps ever more into the foreground as the «subject» of «religious feeling,» the «profiter from a pragmatist decision to believe.»

Obama is a skilled candidate, and a determined liberal, but Obama could not have run as a post-partisan pragmatist if the media (or anyone) had successfully publicized his record of opposing extending legal protections to newborns that survived botched abortions and had lied about his votes.

The pragmatist, as you seem to be, is more simply ignoring the «turth» question and rendering it unimportant than attempting to answer it.

Nevertheless, as Richard Bernstein has observed, the American pragmatists — especially Peirce, James, and Dewey — had already thematized an anti-foundational approach to philosophy before the First World War.

Compiling representative anthologies of process philosophical writing, Douglas Browning in 1965 (POP) and J. R. Sibley and P. A. Y. Gunter in 1978 (PPBW) include Bergson, selections from the later evolutionary cosmology of C. S. Peirce, Samuel Alexander, and C. Lloyd Morgan along with Whitehead and several American pragmatists as constituting the main «process philosophers.»

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.

Whitehead is as «post-evolutionary» in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs.18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies; indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories.

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 itselAs 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 itselas a justification for philosophy itself.

But the pragmatist contemporaries of the positivists offer us a needed correction to this notion - praxis itself as an evaluative standard.

The importance of this novel recommendation for ethics lies in its characteristic ability to moderate between extreme positions: although, against the pragmatists, values are held as eternal, they are not, against the Platonists, degraded by their relation with the finite world.

To that extent, Royce was as much a member of the pragmatist fellowship as either of the others.

While they talk about being «pragmatists», the consultant and lobbyist classes are just as driven by «gut instinct and guru - ism» as the Tea Party insurgents they fear and disdain.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

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).

we've much to be proud and encouraged by far as todays performance goes — im happy for all supporters, (optimists, pragmatists and pessimists alike), didn't we do well...

«Anybody with that amount of talent can do anything he puts his mind to as long as he dedicates himself to it,» says Love, taking a pragmatist's view.

Much as we love to hate what he stands for in football and humanity, we must admit that Mourhino is a pragmatist.

Above all else, the First Lady strikes me as a savvy pragmatist, pushing for reforms only where there are clear openings and likely pay - offs.

«Competitiveness» can be used as a convenient excuse for opposing popular tax rises on high earners, while presenting the right as sensible pragmatists and the left as unrealistic ideologues.

Conflicting views are offered as to where Osborne lies on the spectrum between pragmatist and ideologue.

Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.

The former governor, ever the political pragmatist, did not let that stop him from jumping on the Paladino bandwagon after the mad - as - hell Queen City champion defeated Pataki's preferred gubernatorial contender, former Rep. Rick Lazio, in the 2010 GOP primary.

As Yafeng Xia shows, this supple pragmatist was, after Mao's death, above all concerned with China's economic development, becoming part of the international economy and ensuring rapid growth.

The pragmatists in the WFP argue the party needs to run as high a profile a candidate for governor as possible to ensure receiving 50,000 votes in that race this fall and preserving its ballot line for another four years.

Pragmatists throwing their hands up in despair should think seriously about why the majority of party members have chosen to back a candidate they see as an electoral long shot.

Yet former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ran his state as a careful pragmatist for 11 years, then successfully reinvented himself as an unabashed liberal for the 2004 campaign.

The Conservative leader is a pragmatist; he recognises that he needs the press as much as he needs the voters who buy their papers.

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?»

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

On his campaign website, Wadkins bills himself as «A new kind of Democrat: optimist, pragmatist, scientist.»