Sentences with phrase «false alternative»

Now formulating issues as false alternatives is the mark of a mediocre mind.

To their credit, the authors do provide thick descriptions of perennial problems in American political culture, but even then they do little to help us get beyond the false alternatives of individualism and communitarianism.

In a bold recasting of Christian ethics, Jean Porter urges us to abandon the false alternatives of deontological (Kantian) vs. consequentialist (utilitarian) morality, and learn from modern moral philosophy that moral rules require judgment.

Between the false alternatives of «just general truths» or «explicit claims to messianic titles» there lies in Jesus» public ministry a whole area of eschatological action accompanied by theological commentary which Diem overlooked, and wherein resides both the historical and the theological point of departure for the Church's kerygma, and thus the crucial area of research for a new quest of the historical Jesus.

The first step in this rebellion must be to smash the false alternative of our epoch — that of individualism and collectivism.

Much as I sympathize with the questioner, I believe the question presents a false alternative.

Of course it is finally a false alternative, but the tendency persists.

As Lincoln recognized, these are false alternatives.

Since writing the review of the Colson and Pearcey book, my understanding of what Schaeffer was trying to do has been sharpened by reading a 1948 Bible Today article in which he argued that the controversy between evidentialism and presuppositionalism presents a false alternative.

It begins with the realization that the dilemma of modern Judaism stems from the way it keeps presenting itself with a false alternative.

And because we were using multiple - choice questions, the right answer was often accompanied by two plausible but false alternatives.