Sentences with phrase «great pragmatist»

What a charge to bring against the great pragmatist: that his dream could not bear fruit in the everyday world.

The leaders of the world's cities are the great pragmatists on the world's stage.

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The Crisis of Modernityby augusto del nocetranslated by carlo lancellottimcgill - queens, 336 pages, $ 110 There is no greater ideologue, nor any more earnest in his self - delusion, than the pragmatist who thinks he is free of ideology.

He goes on to say that «interesting philosophy» of the sort done by the pragmatists is really «a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half - formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.»

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.

Above all, I am a pragmatist who works (and lives) with real teachers, real librarians, real administrators, and real students on a day - to - day basis, and I recognize that normal people tend to think about technology a great deal less than technology enthusiasts do.

She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research.

It seems improbable that our American colleagues will ever again see the likes of the trio of great legal pragmatists, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand.