Sentences with phrase «democratic ideals of»

The exhibition presents the story of The Cooper Union, its origins in the values adamantly held by Peter Cooper, and its historic promotion of the democratic ideals of free education, social justice, philanthropy and civic virtue.

In addition, this type of verbal classification and name - calling undermines the dominant culture's ability to confront its own racism, it perpetuates attacks on the humanity of African Americans, and it impedes the full partnership of African Americans within the democratic ideals of the United States.»

It is then, the covenant concept which explains the so - called, one might almost say the mis - called, democratic ideals of the Old Testament.

It strikes at the heart of the democratic ideals of wide - ranging and robust discussion, of protection of the rights of minority views, of a genuine freedom of information.

Nevertheless, the classical humanistic tradition, with its emphasis on the common distinctive qualities of man, provides stronger support for the democratic ideal of human equality than does evolutionary naturalism, with its concern for the continuity of man with the lower forms of life.

The democratic ideal of unique qualitative judgment is in tension with the ranking requirements of organized society.

Polygamy is excluded by the democratic ideal of uniqueness, of which sexual union is the consummatory symbol.

The first conforms to the democratic ideal of respect for personality only in small, highly moralized groups.

The hierarchy clearly has political power; Küng must rely on the informal power of the written and spoken word, on the university tradition of inquiry and discussion, on the theological ground of ecumenical consensus, and on the democratic ideal of due process.

In this sense, social media's ability to transmit vast quantities of information, which can be augmented by links and images as discussed in Part II, directly aligns with the democratic ideal of opening up the courtroom for the world to see its contents and to judge its outcome.

Not exact matches

Amid a perfect storm of investor - owned units, powerful condo boards and tenants who have limited powers to fight back, a democratic living ideal is rapidly turning into a dictatorial nightmare for condo - dwellers.

So too is our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.

As a matter of fact, the ability to recognize anti-Semitism as such is chiefly a modern capacity fostered by democratic ideals and sharpened by the reaction of civilized consciences to the racial atrocities of nazism.

Hence the promotion of the democratic ideal is seen as a moral duty that is in profound compliance with the faith.

On the one hand, democratic freedom may mean the ideal of the individual exercising his or her own free will — a value based upon solid conviction and nourished by a Christian view of the competence and dignity of the individual soul.

Politicians and pundits frequently point to our democratic ideals, our individualistic understanding of freedom, our Coca - Cola, computers and compact cars, to say, «Of course, God is on our side.&raquof freedom, our Coca - Cola, computers and compact cars, to say, «Of course, God is on our side.&raquOf course, God is on our side.»

Oh I can totally see the ideals of the Democratic Party.

Low - intensity - conflict strategy is part of a U.S. global war against the poor designed to manage social change in ways that protect perceived U.S. interests while maintaining, at least for its own people, the image of democratic ideals.

If democracy is to have any relevance and influence in such a time, the people of the United States and other democratic nations must demonstrate their understanding and practice of democratic ideals in the field of race relations.

This seems to me to be the whole point behind Dewey's ideal of a democratic community and is perhaps what Rorty had in mind when he called for free discussion.

It was not the secular Enlightenment but the Cromwellian revolution of a century earlier that gave birth to the democratic ideal that government is accountable to the Holy Spirit in each person.

Nevertheless, in its general features the American political system is a marvelous achievement, exemplifying some of the fundamental characteristics of the democratic ideal.

Any weakening of the family will accordingly be reflected in the decline of democracy generally, and a widespread belief in the importance and the stability of families will help to sustain democratic ideals in other spheres of life.

The result of this attempt to fix the Democratic primaries was the hapless Walter Mondale campaign, which gave the Republican incumbent his ideal opponent.

The idea of a Chosen People has usually seemed repugnant to the liberal spirit, particularly in a democratic society where the ideal of equality runs strong.

The best in the Western way of life is democratic and egalitarian, the excesses of capitalism being a deviation from the Western ideal of freedom and justice.

But what of the fact earlier pointed out that classifying is an impersonal process and, hence, in tension with democratic ideals?

Moreover, the idea of equality, on reflection, turns out not to be a simple one, so that the meaning of the democratic social ideal needs to be examined and defined.

Two things are wrong with this line, one is Jesus never spoke of Democracy or democratic ideals.

The mixed economies partly expressive of democratic socialist ideals virtually abolished degrading forms of poverty and insured that the basic needs of all were met.

Just as androcentric competition in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of women - slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.

The second, which is a major presupposition of both secular and religious liberalism, is not only consistent with but essential to the maintenance of the democratic ideal, and is formally guaranteed in all democratic societies but often violated in practice.

Yet within a framework of disparate biological inheritance fixed by nature and of disparate social inheritance which is the result of both biological and human forces, the democratic ideal requires that every person be given an opportunity to experience the «abundant life» and do the work for which he is best fitted.

The democratic ideal is a principle of liberty as well as equality, but again it is necessary to distinguish among types of liberty.

They assume their gravest significance at the point of recourse to war when this is waged in defense of democratic ideals.

The third is both an indispensable prerequisite to the democratic ideal and a primary source of its corruption.

But the U.S. makes a mockery of its democratic ideals when it bullies other nations to serve U.S. interests and pretends that its bullying deserves to be called justice or idealism.

On the other hand, even when leaders are committed to seeking social justice, they have not been able to sustain a legitimate critique of poverty and injustice in America because the family ideals of the American Dream continue to be linked to democratic values and economic stability.

Included are varied specifics such as: economic theory; psychiatry; systems analysis; the growth of bureaucracies; the science of management; the development of the democratic ideal; striving for universal education; personalism (fulfilling the earlier promise of the Enlightenment); the rise and fall of colonialism; and modem liberation movements.

The democratic ideal in America carries a dynamic component of the ideals of the American heritage, «a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal».

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.

Appropriate to the human realm are the methods of democratic education, grounded in the ideal of persuasion of free persons in the light of an assumed commitment to truth and right.

Despite cataclysmic assaults upon democratic ideals from both the right and the left, the ideal of democracy persists, indeed flourishes, not only in Western Europe and North America but — even if only as an ideal — throughout much of the less - developed world.

It promoted good character and democratic principles, parts of the old Whig ideals palatable to all Americans.

These ideals may be seen as the last flowering of the Whig - Protestant ideal which, as in the Report, celebrated the harmonies of broadly Protestant and democratic culture.

The Whig - democratic ideals they had long proclaimed included, after all, the principles of equity and integration of all peoples that cultural outsiders were now claiming.

For Dewey, of course, democracy was a «way of life» not merely a way of public life — an ideal that «must affect all modes of human association» — and he would not have accepted Rorty's contention that «there is no way to bring self - creation together with justice at the level of theory» for that would have required him to give up a principal article of democratic faith.

In our conception of that dream, in the strength of our conviction of the new world it can create, and in our willingness to make all sacrifices willingly and without reservation for the democratic ideal lie not only our hope of total victory but our only hope of personal satisfaction and happiness during this era....

Through the diffusion of information by modern methods of travel and communication, democratic ideals are transmitted from one people to another.

Let us assume that the strangely contagious modern obsession with democratic ideals is nothing else than the feeling and liking Man has acquired for a process which, by the collective organization of the zoological group to which he belongs, is carrying him towards certain new states of super-personalization — or, which comes to the same thing, super-reflection.