Sentences with phrase «by pragmatism»

I got a bit nervous when I first met DD — I was worried his hopes for mush would be dashed by my pragmatism.

Otherwise the Mirage's shape is dictated by pragmatism.

Driven by pragmatism, as opposed to dogma, in these debates.

As his party gathers in Liverpool for its annual conference, Clegg admits he was completely wrong to call Cameron a «fake» and a «con» during the election campaign and has been impressed by his pragmatism and flexibility.

But sensitivity to staff concerns needs to be tempered by pragmatism.

Not exact matches

Perhaps those who equate sleep with laziness or lack of dedication can be convinced of the benefits of sleep by looking at what's going on in a world that is the ultimate in pragmatism, where performance and winning are everything: sports.

Again, pragmatism shows that, driven by caring, good sense, and the realities of each situation, communities can work out approaches where no institution is asked to work against its basic values but where there is respect for differences and a commitment to a broader end.

It's simple enough, and although the American Rorty and the Italian Vattimo have been formed by different philosophical and religious traditions (pragmatism and red - diaper communism for Rorty, hermeneutics and cradle Catholicism for Vattimo), they agree on most of its elements.

Weigel must either believe that some propositions are properly subjects for moral judgment, and others not (this truly is a form of Gnosticism), or that some propositions are more easily held and accepted by current society, and that the Church as a matter of pragmatism ought to prioritize low - hanging fruit.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

One of these is historicism, «the view that all thought is essentially related to and can not transcend its own time» (p. 40) Another is pragmatism, fostered by John Dewey and others, which permits analysis of the present without regard to the past.

by Alburey Castell [New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1949], p. 106 f.) Despite these resemblances, the ethics of pragmatism differs from that of Buber's dialogical philosophy in two central points.

For pragmatism it is ultimately anything which threatens subjective interest by creating deficiencies or preventing their being overcome.

Democracy As Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism In a Globalizing World, edited by Sor - Hoon Tan and John Whalen - Bridge.

Reason, or more properly «secular reason», needs faith, because it is faith that will save the values and convictions of civilised western society from being trodden under foot by ahistorical pragmatism, relativism and totalitarianism.

The previous definitions and characterizations resonate with me in various ways, particularly David Koyzis's confessional core contra pragmatism and especially the «essence» offered by the inimitable John Stott (as shared by Justin Taylor).

Upon closer examination I think many will have to agree that actually many views such as how high or low taxes should be, etc. are not articles of faith by any means and as such require flexibility and pragmatism.

Palmer ignores this Jamesean strain of pragmatism, because his own thinking was shaped, as he tells us in one of the most powerfully confessional portions of his book, by a different strand of the pragmatic tradition.

This is due, I believe, to the postmodern climate of thought, particularly evident in neopragmatic philosophy and deconstructionist literary criticism, and characterized by a new pragmatism, pluralism, meliorism, relativism, and historicism — all congenial to the empirical theology that grew out of earlier American versions of these same modes of thought.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

These ideas, in marked contrast to the whole of Christian experience, have most recently been embraced by the church growth industry, which, together with its basically sociological approach, promotes those quintessential American values of pragmatism and consumerism.

& ultimately, even pragmatism is driven by convenience (whatever gets me what i want).

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

Translated into social theory by John Dewey and Horace Kallen (James's student), poetry by Wallace Stevens (another James student), social science by George Herbert Mead, semiotics by Charles Morris (a Mead student), and jurisprudence by Oliver Wendell Holmes — not to mention the philosophy of F. C. S. Schiller, Sidney Hook (a Dewey student), C. I. Lewis, W. V. O. Quine (a student of Lewis), and many others up to and beyond Richard Rorty — pragmatism swept through the universities.

This marks a decisive departure from James's pragmatism, since James was content to define truth by whether an idea corresponded to expectations it arouses or expresses.

Is God to be made a mockery by those who tend to instill anti-leveraged pragmatisms?

This and similar definitions of «ethics» which leave the matter in the simple world of pragmatism and «science» (whatever she means by that) we still have language which can not automatically release us from the issue of eugenics.

(By attending to the characteristics of just one phase, and generalizing it, one can get a logical empiricism based on science, an existentialism based on present decision - making, or a pragmatism based on past and present as tools for shaping the future.)

Christian socialist formulations of economic norms have had to be provisional and pragmatic, but their pragmatism has usually been informed by human caring and by commitments to unity and justice within the community.

First with Moyes and then Van Gaal, that cavalier spirit that Fergie imbued in our team seems to be dissipating fast; the rock & roll football of the last two decades is being replaced by cautious pragmatism.

2006 «Idealism and Pragmatism in the Creation of the Certified Midwife: The Development of Midwifery in New York and the New York Midwifery Practice Act of 1992» by Maureen May and Robbie Davis - Floyd.

It is [defined by] the pragmatism, common sense, and basic sanity of the British people, worlds apart from highfalutin sermonising».

Is this what he means by the «admirable quality» of «pragmatism»?

It's now tinged by a hint of pragmatism, however, as if Damian Green - the shadow home secretary who is now faced with the practical reality of turning those hundreds of thousands into tens of thousands - contemplates what to do next.

In a statement released by Murphy's campaign, Koch said he has gotten to know the candidate in recent years and has been impressed by his «commitment to Democratic values, his political pragmatism, and his understanding of the issues affecting middle class families today.»

Gibson, meanwhile, is working to shore up support among independent voters and Democrats by appealing to the «healthy pragmatism» that he sees as the prevailing political instinct in the district.

Ditto the rank - and - file party activists motivated more by ideology than Mr. Cuomo's centrist pragmatism.

The Spectator's political editor, James Forsyth, tells Asthana that Cameron is driven not by a desire for ideological purity but instead «principled pragmatism».

He is widely regarded, even by those who don't support him, as a clever man who thinks strategically and has an intellectual pragmatism.

Increasing numbers of us are concluding that unless Labour MPs take a lead within Parliament, a new centre - left party should be formed outside Parliament that reflects the pragmatism and decency of the British public by rejecting the old divides of left and right.

Her pragmatism is shared by Carnegie Institution mineralogist Robert Hazen, one of the most widely respected researchers in the study of life's origins.

The sentimentality, of which there is plenty, is nicely balanced by a humor of ironic pragmatism, as when Ray, having built his baseball field as a monument to human dreams, decides to charge tourists $ 20 a head to visit it.

What may have devolved into a Hollywood - manufactured debacle fueled by quick cuts and bogged down in stylistic visuals with no accompanying substance or meaningful context, is instead an exercise in pragmatism, toxic and beneficial.

It's also a movie in which a top - grade bunch of actors get stuck in with self - effacing pragmatism, not getting overpowered by the story but not trying to outshine it either.

AWAKENINGS Paul Schrader interviewed by Gavin Smith The faith of a seeker and the pragmatism of a director; amazing grace and sleep apnea; Bressonian purity and Ed Lachman's gels

That pragmatism has allowed her to navigate choppy education waters while continuing to build support for the law's ultimate goal of getting all students to grade level by 2013 — 14.

In Williams, the school choice movement discovered an unexpected ally, motivated by a combination of personal biography, pragmatism, and political survival.

Pragmatism, as developed by Dewey and others, takes this general stance towards solving public problems and it still seems to me the right one.

I would download Camwolf by J.L. Merrow or Pricks and Pragmatism.

«As we talk to our friends and industry colleagues about «doing something indie» with us, there's a shared pragmatism informed by years in the industry that melds with the lingering youthful enthusiasm that got us into games to begin with,» Vanaman writes.