Sentences with phrase «as uncritical acceptance»

While blatant hate and racism certainly motivated plenty of our country's past oppressors, blatant hate and racism aren't nearly as effective at sustaining oppressive systems as uncritical acceptance of the way things are.

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In their profoundly shallow and reductive view of world history — such as their complete and uncritical acceptance of the asinine assertions of pseudohistorian D.M. Murdock, also known as Acharya S. — Zeitgeisters presume that everything they see as bad in the world, principally money and religion, was designed by a single person or group of people and then implemented whole and complete, the way automobiles go from the drawing board to the factory floor in Detroit.

My problem with the category of «story» is that it invites uncritical acceptance from many who see it as a new way of doing theology.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

Again, as in the case of humility, trusting the research and the theories of others does not mean uncritical acceptance.

One reason for this neglect, as we have seen, may be found in Whitehead's uncritical acceptance of the dominant philosophical opinion that efficient causation must mean transeunt causation.

At a moment when all disciplines are becoming more self - conscious, more aware of the nature of their presuppositions as exhibited in the very languages and structures of the various fields of scholarship, such uncritical acceptance of «what is» as «natural» may be intellectually fatal.

At the moment when all disciplines are becoming more self - conscious, more aware of the nature of their presuppositions as exhibited in the very languages and structures of the various fields of scholarship, such uncritical acceptance of «what is» as «natural» may be intellectually fatal.

While Sternberg's title might well include critical deconstructions of the supposed inseparability of concrete and digital realities, there is a tendency in the art world, recognised as the first bottom - up contemporary movement of the 21st century, that was founded on an unquestioning and uncritical acceptance of the digitisation of the world narrative.

Uncritical public acceptance of wind industry spin began to change after the 2011 senate inquiry into the impacts of wind farms, chaired by Greens senator Rachel Siewert made the unequivocal recommendation that «the Commonwealth Government initiate as a matter of priority thorough, adequately resourced epidemiological and laboratory studies of possible effects of wind farms on human health.»

The Act on Facts campaign, as the name implies, is to quash «myths» and counter «misinformation» by those who have concerns about the uncritical acceptance of wind energy.

His uncritical acceptance elsewhere of CO2 as the climate «control knob,» along with unrealistic «conveyor belt» shut - down and of internal jump - resonance explanations of the singular Younger Dryas period leaves much to be desired in terms of scientific rigor.