Sentences with phrase «free inquiry»
One might think that in the field of religious ideas, at least, public and private schools would provide a place for free inquiry and vigorous dissent lacking in church institutions.
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Since the heart of liberalism was its endorsement of the best in modern culture, scientifically based free inquiry, together with its technological benefits, would automatically advance Christian civilization.
I haven't lost confidence in the ideal of free inquiry.
Today, the struggle for free inquiry has assumed new forms.
The guiding premise of those who believe in free inquiry is that truth is more likely to be discovered if the opportunity exists for the free exchange of opposing opinions; the process of interchange is frequently as important as the result.
Limitations on free inquiry tend to be self - reinforcing.
Theologians do not pretend to be engaged in value - free inquiry as do the practitioners of academic disciplines in general.
Especially in universities, which of all institutions in a society should be open to the widest - ranging free inquiry, such a broader pluralism would involve allowing all sorts of Christian and other religiously based intellectual traditions back into the discussion.
The Protestant - Whig ideals included affirmations of scientific free inquiry, political freedom, and individualistic moral standards such as hard work.
Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary as - sociations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.
Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they may be, without social or legal prohibition or fear of sanctions.
With free profile creation and also free inquiry or search, the site is certain take you to a sensibly valued membership program.
The president of the University of Chicago, Robert Zimmer, explained why campuses must jealously defend free inquiry.
The politicization of science is a threat to the process of free inquiry necessary for human progress.»
They rely, in other words, on narrowing the range of acceptable public debate to the point that even alleged havens of free inquiry like Columbia University begin endorsing the unleashing of legal force against critics of publicly funded climate scientists.
The battle is presented as a case of free inquiry against tyrannical opponents.
We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
Hitchens writes: «Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.»
So much for fair play and free inquiry and the rest of the Christian community.
Liberal society celebrates toleration, diversity, and free inquiry, but in practice it features a spreading social, cultural, and ideological conformism.
Last spring I attended a conference at the newly established St. Olaf Institute for Freedom and Community, which is dedicated to «free inquiry and meaningful debate of important political and social issues.»
He had pointed out the antipathy between religious authority and free inquiry in 1869, in his inaugural address:
And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry?
He is to be seen as a courageous pioneer of the attitude of free inquiry, experiment and observation.
The new ideal was free inquiry, scientific ways of thinking, and rationalism.
Even in the area of religion, men and women attain to the truth through «right and true judgments of conscience» which are formed as a result of «free inquiry, carried on with the aid of teaching or instruction, communication, and dialogue» (Dignitatis humanae 3).
The book seems to have become a special favorite with Roman Catholics, perhaps since it came out just as the Second Vatican Council was ending, and they were eager to test the new atmosphere of free inquiry.
Perhaps a much simpler, material life, simpler, that is, compared to present middle - class American standards, would result, but it would not be accompanied by an abandonment of free inquiry or free speech.
My own view is that, having discovered the peace of mind that permits us to go on thinking, we should then create new circles of influence, new institutions, new ways of engaging in open discussion and free inquiry — which can be offered to those eager to participate in otherwise threatened forms of knowledge.
Scruton speaks of civilization, culture, free inquiry, and inheritance.
There appears to be an inherent incompatibility between Christian evangelicalism and the idea of a university, for only an «open» style of Christian commitment can affirm a university's commitment to free inquiry.
The first principle of democratic secular humanism is its commitment to free inquiry.
His heroes include Thomas Mann, Socrates, Spinoza, Dostoevsky, Herzen, and Camus, and he presents them to us here as if they were all members of the same fan - club» agreed in all essentials about the nature of truth, free inquiry, and nobility of spirit.
Our members have as much right as anyone else to participate in the free inquiry, discussion and debate which should exist in universities.
«I believe just as strongly as I can articulate in the value of free inquiry,» he says, «especially when the stakes are so high — when so many people are dying through no fault of their own; when so much of the country simply turns its back on this problem.»
Kirschner said that science best proceeds in an environment of free inquiry.
The nation of Oceania, to phrase it another way, is so bereft of individualism and free inquiry that life in Orwell's dystopia is ultimately not worth living.
Free inquiry — we listen to the needs of our potential customers, and we do not charge inquiries.