Sentences with phrase «discourse is the distinction»

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In other words, a valid theory of justice requires an internal distinction between the formative principle or set of principles that should be explicitly articulated in a democratic constitution and the substantive principle or set of principles that ought to determine decisions taken in or through the full and free political discourse.

First, as I note at Public Discourse today in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers in bioethics are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has been born.

Yet when it comes to religion, Bellah seems to draw a distinction between rational - logical discourse and the more intuitive, «iconic» symbolism he believes to be more characteristic of religion.

But in the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) the privileging of Christian discourse and the distinction between vulgar religion and rational theism both dissolve, and all talk of God is unmasked as the product of human invention.

In continuing his pursuit of the truth, which carries with it a precise method of making the distinction between the definitely true and the possibly false, he employs the triage of his second precept of Discourse on Method: «The second, to divide each of the difficulties that I would examine as individual parcels, as much as it would be possible and required for a better resolution» (18).

In serving this wider domain, churches and synagogues should not diminish or despise the limited arena of politics or dismiss the huge distinctions that must be made between honest and demagogic discourse, between the president as teacher and the president as artful illusionist.

Bellah, he wrote, challenged the mainstream insistence on the fact «value distinction and its elimination of religion from public life and discourse, which were the usual conventions of his discipline.

Indeed, as they would have it, the signifiers of which all discourse is comprised only bear upon themselves the traces of still other signifiers, so that the very distinction between the signifier and the signified proves in the end to be an utter delusion.

Omni - tasking, schizophrenic and full of contradictions, this position brings a myriad of possibilities: Questioning not only the understanding what is means to be an artist today, it also triggers a larger discourse about the lack of distinction between labor and leisure (the very base of cultural production) while reaching its most paradoxical and therefore contemporary state only through positions similar to that of Cassani.

As a counterpoint to norms of categorization and distinction, the exhibition places James Castle in the context of art historical discourse by enabling the viewer to connect the artist's soot - and - spit drawings and found - object constructions with the work of contemporaries, many of whose practices were (or are) firmly rooted in the art world.

In summary the distinctions between macrometeorology and climatology or between climatology and Paleoclimatology are unquestionably useful in ordinary discourse.

The usual dodge in standard economic discourse is to classify these as mere «pecuniary» externalities, but it's hard to justify the distinction here.