Sentences with phrase «contemporary liberal thought»

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These essays make no concession to «the modern mind,» but being intelligent and literate they present liberal Jews with a bracing challenge» and Christians with a window on how classical Jewish thought is applied to contemporary problems.

But insofar as you do think there are differences between rightly understood Locke and the contemporary libertarian or classic liberal reading of natural rights applied to economic issues, perhaps you will wind up defending at least part of my theory.

Administration rather than politics: this is, I think, a widespread contemporary ambition, and not just among liberals.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

Confronting neo-orthodoxy, liberals reaffirmed the role of reason, the authority of universal human experience, and the insights of contemporary modes of thinking.

Basically - and I admit this is simplistic, but I'm not into writing a political text this morning - liberals (in the contemporary US sense) are about communalism and having the government take care of everyone, while conservatives think the government should protect the country, and let individuals take...

sanbikinoraion: when I wrote the above I was thinking about liberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberalliberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberalliberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the LiberalLiberal State.

The contemporary philosopher AC Grayling discusses education in the following way: «The aim of liberal education is to produce people who go on learning after their formal education has ceased who think, question, and know how to find answers when they need them.