For some Muslims, Western secular culture and the conspicuous consumption that often goes along with it are seen as undermining their faith; others acknowledge the democratic systems of the West but struggle to balance that appreciation against a religion that they feel leaves little room
for liberal values.
And because the Pacific Northwest's cool capital is known
for its liberal values and counterculture, its unofficial slogan is «Keep Portland Weird».
After all, research suggests that support
for liberal values is already strong among young people — including those from ethnic minorities.
With just a week to go until the Assembly elections, Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron has said that now is the time to stand up
for Liberal values of fairness.
But rest assured, we are fighting
for Liberal values every day.
This may be a winning season for democrats, but it might be a bittersweet victory
for liberal values.
Nixon on Tuesday unveiled a blistering attack on Cuomo's record, taking him to task for wealthy donors and failing to push
for liberal values in Albany.
«He has stood up
for liberal values; he put forward a vision for the important role that France plays in Europe and around the world; and he is committed to a better future for the French people.
He stood up
for liberal values,» Obama said.
Not exact matches
But perhaps devolving most existing federal power to the state level will end up being the most mutually acceptable path forward
for both conservatives and
liberals who don't want to be dictated to by people who don't share their
values.
There's no election
for leadership of the «
liberal world order» — the U.S. - constructed system of laws and
values underpinning American prosperity since World War II.
He has said he
values his
liberal - arts education
for the communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills it afforded him.
As
for the
value of the assets, it's difficult to assess the accuracy of the
Liberals» numbers, because they have not released a full list of the assets they might unload.
And lest the
liberal - minded fall into despair, Zakaria noted that the under - 30's voted
for Hillary Clinton — that is,
for multilateralism, multiculturalism, and associated
values.
In this context, it may not be the case that support
for the Democrats would translate into support
for the
Liberals or the New Democrats, parties that share similar
values and approaches.
The point I was making about
liberals is that many of you understand that the bible can not be taken at face -
value, but do so when it is convenient
for you.
You mean the same republican who was an advocate
for big government,
liberal values like freeing slaves and was from the North?
The article was called «The Secular Saint» and made a case
for a kind of heroic existentialism, beyond the then prevalent
value - free
liberal realism.
This overall agenda would not differ from those of most
liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal
for UUs is «a community
for shared
values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).
I think it's important that we should stand up
for those
liberal centre ground
values.
Responding to this «religion is
for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a
liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious
values in casting votes or framing arguments.
America need to stand up
for our
values and eliminate the
liberal «new thinking» mentality that is set to ruin us all...
Liberal feminism, known
for valuing androgyny, seeks reform through education, equal political rights and economic opportunities, and exploring terminology and
values.
Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic
value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not
for Profit), while ultimately defending the
value of
liberal arts as essential
for social and political progress.
Jesus Christ, this poor guy is going to jail
for you people,
for your sins, to preserve, to save our Christian
values, to clean the world of these Islamoids, to reject all other rot morals from the
liberal pest (see the new NY f..
Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel
for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their
values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the
Liberal values match Christian
values more closely.
This principle of
value in and
for itself is violated when what are termed
liberal studies (and what may be so
for other students) are pursued
for the purpose of becoming a professional in
liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).
It has welcomed, naturally enough, the warmth and the poetry of Deus est Caritas; but it is now hoping that the Pope's first encyclical signals that there will be no more uncomfortable demands
for the renunciation of relativist moral
values, indeed, that thePope will now bask in his new popularity and become a mellow and
liberal guru to the modern world, that his life story will be rather like that of Pius IX but in reverse.
The offering of a special version of
liberal constitutionalism as a proper domestic venue
for contemporary human rights and
values discourse in East Asia.
For example, there is a growing awareness that if the claim is correct that some political
values are universally right, then why should
liberals be hesitant to declare that some spiritual
values are universally true?
While Ogden argues to the existence of an ontic whole as the condition of the possibility of our
valuing, it not only can be, but also has been argued with similar care that such a reality, understood as the supreme instance» of that «comprehensive moral principle» required to account fully
for human evaluation is thereby likewise necessarily presupposed by such evaluation (Franklin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference:
Liberal Theories of Independent Associations [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984], chap.
Nor is it to be found in most of the discussions about the virtue and
value of public service
for America's young people, discussions that have been going on
for some years now»
for convenience call them «post-Vietnam»» among both
liberals and conservatives.
Liberal Protestants and secularists furthermore agreed that the scientific age bad brought with it higher - level moral principles that could form the basis
for a consensus of
values that would benefit all humanity.
By accepting the humanists» standards of subjectivity and the relativity of
values as a given — that is, as a premise and not as a problem — the
liberal religionist has gone a long way toward betraying the grounds
for public order.
Another basic point, one directly related to the
liberal Christians» compulsive search
for relevance, is the lack of a firm faith in objective
values.
While Hentoff objected, rightly, in his book to the censoriousness of conservatives, he called out his fellow leftists
for similar impulses, finding such behavior contradictory to
liberal values.
The priority of particular group loyalties has protected the Italians from the worst extremes of ideological passion of the twentieth century — even fascism never went very deep — but it has also operated to undermine a genuine commitment to democratic and
liberal values when these did not seem to pay off
for particular groups.
Admittedly, I am a
liberal Mormon, but the way I think about my faith, I would not see any
value in fasting
for a political candidate.
That said, she will likely spin this as «standing up
for Christian / Republican / Conservative
values, which are under attack by the
liberal elite» and turn it into some form of media and / or political gig, a la Sarah Palin.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian
values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account
for the richness of
values discourse in the East Asian region - local
values do not provide a justification
for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes
for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test
for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate
liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue
for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the
value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
In the second part, I will offer a special version of
liberal constitutionalism as a proper domestic venue
for contemporary human rights and
values discourse in East Asia.
The politics that follows from this vision is one of tolerance and the welcoming of diversity, not because, as in some
liberal traditions, tolerance and diversity are
valued for their own sake, but because, given the dimness of our individual perceptions, one can not be sure which of the paths we are urged to go down is the right one.
Western communitarians have ultimately had to commit to some
liberal values to preserve their discourse, while the Asian neo-conservative variety has also had to deal with increased demands
for liberalization.
As
for point 2... is there data that republicans
value money more than
liberals?
Wilson's currently attempting to capitalize on his new - found heroic status among some conservatives, but he's lagging far behind the Democratic blitzkrieg (of course, considering that most of the
liberal money is coming from outside his district, he's set up
for an anti-carpetbagger message during the general election, but I doubt that'll offset the
value of Miller's actual cash).
The ostentatious and indiscriminate attacks by Trump on
liberal values are therefore completely predictable and necessary
for his strategy to work.
But different varieties of capitalism generate comparative advantages
for different high
value added sectors: as we have seen, high risk high innovation financial sectors are located in
Liberal Market Economies (as well as many other business service sectors, commercial law, and also biotech, blockbuster software, and radical innovation in electronics).
As David Howarth, the former
Liberal Democrat MP
for Cambridge, has argued, the party also needs to start talking more explicitly about its
values:
France's revolutionary tradition would at first seem to offer ripe soil
for liberal - minded thinkers to stand up to a system perceived as falling short of the Universal Rights and
values enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights.
Felder, an observant Jew whose district includes many Orthodox Jewish voters, said his constituents «don't agree» with a lot of what two of the state's top Democrats — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — have been saying in the wake of Donald Trump's election, pledging to fight on behalf of
liberal values and maintain a sort of safe haven
for the left in New York.