Sentences with phrase «from obscurantism»
Thus arises the tradeoff that most concerns Godwin and Kemerer: individual autonomy and cultural pluralism versus social cohesion and a societal duty to rescue children from obscurantism.
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About the only thing that was accomplished, from what I could tell, was a half hour of empty chatter and post-modern obscurantism.
And the biggest threats to this enterprise come from completely opposite directions — postmodernist denial of scientific objectivity and religious obscurantism and dogmatism.
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism.
But yet it is still sadly true that large numbers of our more thoughtful contemporaries are repelled from the Church because they find in it what looks to them like sheer unthinking obscurantism, a shockingly immoral attitude towards truth (of which Mr. Blamires» book is an example), and a cavalier disregard of patent fact about the world in which we live.