Sentences with phrase «challenging accepted truths»

This is a running theme throughout Lane Fox's career; challenging accepted truths.

She's especially interested in the hard problem of consciousness, challenging accepted truths, and how philosophy shapes contemporary society.

The danger to our political system is that limiting speech stifles real political dialog and any chance to challenge Accepted Truth, making it that much harder to nudge institutions like the Republican Party in a different direction.

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In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change?

By conveying truth, it will be easier for your partner to accept you and thereby face various challenges in the best possible way.

Thornton challenges audiences to accept the truth that the film represents, without any platitudes or easy escape routes.

That the uniform salary «schedule» for teachers is obsolete and dysfunctional is a truth widely accepted but rarely challenged.

Now Vanessa Rodriguez, a former classroom teacher herself, challenges widely accepted theories of teaching and offers a unique idea based on a simple yet empowering truth: we are all teachers.

Featuring creatives at the show challenge the ingrained notion that photographs represent reality, and instead push us, with their works, to observe more closely the ways images are manipulated, styled, and filtered to create fictions we often accept as truth.

The letter you received from our colleagues is a wholly inappropriate effort to challenge these well - accepted truths.

I've learned that the truth about the truth is we don't live in a society that functions on truth at all — and learning to accept and work with that is an every day challenge.

Along the way we'll challenge ideas so widely accepted as truths that at first you might wonder why we're bothering to consider them at all.