Sentences with phrase «false illusion as»

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Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

Phil is still in the process of living in a false illusion of being a chairman and can not even get all the committee members to believe in his validity as such.

Or, as he recognizes, it may not be something created outside him for his use, but «a dagger of the mind», an illusion, «a false creation» of his own fevered mind.

Sure, monetary policy — less politely known as printing money — has, and probably will, produce some (false) illusion of growth.

The back jump is a great move allowing you to avoid danger but it can also prove as a false sense of security to your enemy creating the illusion of having the upper hand.

As Barack Obama and Congress begin to chart a new course on energy, we feel it's crucial to help shatter the false illusion the coal industry is promoting.

She minces no words in describing that their communities have come to see these climate policies as «nothing but a bunch of false solutions to global warming issues» «based on lies» and «on selling illusions to the less privileged.»

In some cases it's functional and in others, such as behind the toilet, it's false, to create the illusion of balance.