Sentences with phrase «extreme generalities»

As Anderson writes, «Aron had too profound a sense of the diversity of history to admit easily to a strong notion of an ideal society or best regime, or to succumb to the extreme generalities favored by literary political thinkers.»

If we recall his definition of an enduring object as «a genetic character inherited through a historic route of actual occasions» (FR 166), we realize the extreme generality of this expression.

Given the extreme generality involved, it is evident that such a question can only be approached wearing very high heels.

Not exact matches

This formula satisfies the criterion set out by the late Paul Ramsey for the churches» social teaching: it steers between the extremes of irrelevant generalities and relevant particularities that are beyond the churches» competence.

It is interesting to contrast Whitehead's extreme objectifying and abstractive position reflected here and stated concisely in Science and the Modern World that «Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction» (SMW 21) with his later statement in Modes of Thought: «Hence the absolute generality of logic and mathematics vanish» (MT 98).

The first is that you are talking about particular individuals, at the extreme end of the competence scale, and therefore analyses of the generality of teachers are unlikely to apply.

Separate to this generality are the specifics of picking out the extremes such as droughts, storms and exceptional heat and cold events.