Sentences with phrase «democracy as the way of life»

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At many points the influence of John Dewey and other pragmatists will be evident, particularly their belief in democracy as a comprehensive way of life, their confidence in the wide relevance of the scientific spirit and methods, and their commitment to education as a moral enterprise.

Many Muslims around the world are unimpressed by presidential speeches extolling our virtues as freedom - loving, peaceful people who cherish democracy and our way of life.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

Genuine pluralism is a civilizational achievement: the achievement of what Murray called an «orderly conversation» — a conversation about personal goods and the common good, about the relationship between freedom and moral truth, about the virtues necessary to form the kind of citizens who can live their freedom in such a way as to make the machinery of democracy serve genuinely humanistic ends.

They need to experience democracy as an ethos and way of life today - in their homes, classrooms and communities - if they are to meet tomorrow's challenges.

Costa Rica is often defined as the Switzerland of Central America because of its cozy way of life, tranquil democracy and huge organic splendor.

Christiana Figueres sees it as a way of penalizing successful First world countries for having democracies, hard work, investment, consumerism and building infrastructure and industries and quality of life.