Sentences with phrase «by pragmatists»

He goes on to say that «interesting philosophy» of the sort done by the pragmatists is really «a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half - formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.»

While admitting that irony seems to be inherently a private matter and of little public use, he nonetheless contends that we should develop a kind of «liberal irony» of the sort adopted by the pragmatists, particularly Dewey.

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Even a casual look at how a regime dominated by fanatical communist ideologues could be converted into one led by consummate pragmatists should be especially useful for Trump.

Unfortunately, I'm both a realist and pragmatist by nature, reason seems to be a commodity that is not well accepted here.

The Crisis of Modernityby augusto del nocetranslated by carlo lancellottimcgill - queens, 336 pages, $ 110 There is no greater ideologue, nor any more earnest in his self - delusion, than the pragmatist who thinks he is free of ideology.

Whereas, the term used by atheists, rationalists, pragmatists etc. infers hope or trust in probability / odds / or analysis of past history.

I feel that Rorty is toying with the pragmatists here by not taking seriously their insistence on the importance of considering the practical effects of our ideas.

Niebuhr ended the Destiny volume by saying that only eschatology can rescue the political pragmatist who seeks to keep history going with only minor adjustments in the system.

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.

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.

By New Testament times the tension between prophecy and politics was expressed in the opposition between pragmatists like the Saduccees and Pharisees, who sought to adapt national life to the inevitable powers of the world, and visionaries like the Essene monks at Qumran or John the Baptist who anticipated the emergence of a new age of holiness after God judged this evil age.

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...

«At the moment, New York needs a caring pragmatist willing to address real concerns raised by caring parents and educators who see a system being manipulated from above to the detriment of their children,» he said.

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.

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.

Andrew Cuomo says his father called himself a «progressive pragmatist» whose soaring rhetoric was inspired not by what people wanted to hear, but what he needed to say.

By Tuesday, the notion of closing Rikers had drawn a response from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who found himself in the unusual position of playing the political pragmatist.

This transition, from relying upon sympathetic visionaries to persuading skeptical pragmatists with convincing evidence, was dubbed «crossing the chasm» by Geoffrey Moore:

Working from Burke's screenplay, the Brazilian director Jose Padilha («Narcos») cuts between the increasingly tense passengers, confined to a sweaty corner of the Entebbe airport terminal; the infighting among the terrorists; and the high - level political and military planning put into action by Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), a no - negotiation hard - liner, and Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi), depicted here as the conflicted pragmatist.

It speaks to Shannon's talents that he can take such an unlikeable character and, by portraying him as a ruthless pragmatist, turn 99 Homes into a more powerful and effective cri de coeur.

The components of value that Makiguchi postulated were good, gain and beauty as opposed to those of good, beauty and truth postulated by the neo-Kantian Pragmatists of his era.

They are pragmatists, not bound to a particular way of reading by any «ethic».

She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research.

Josef Albers: Art as Experience looks at the relationship between Albers's pragmatic (and Pragmatist) teaching and his art, presenting previously unseen works by Albers's students from the Bauhaus and elsewhere, along with little - known studies and other art by Albers himself, and reveals the vibrancy and extraordinary impact of Josef Albers's groundbreaking pedagogical methods.

The pragmatist in me (the part repulsed by confusing literature and nebulous dialectical philosophies) knows that we still need places like Cooper, imperfect means of strengthening the bonds that keep the art world from floating away into space.

The piece completely ignores that the views of those he labels «modernists» and «pragmatists» come wholly out of the research demanded by those he ignores in the old movement, whom he unfairly ridicules as hippies.