Sentences with phrase «held ideological beliefs»

Instead, it is those who claim that science itself requires that we hold certain political and moral convictions that distort the essential work of science, and betray their most closely held ideological beliefs.

The question then becomes: how do we re-educate those who hold ideological beliefs that are preventing progress?

Not exact matches

As Wills sees it, the peculiarly strong and long - lived hostility of Americans to government is the consequence of longstanding widely held beliefs and values that have often cut across the ideological differences that otherwise divide us.

This system of belief and social interpretation generally does not reflect the diversity of social reality there is within the society, but is consistent more with the economic or ideological system which has given it birth and its corporate managers who hold power within the system and benefit from it.

The radicalization of individuals — who come from a range of cultures and possess a diverse mix of ideological beliefs — begins to take hold as recruits adopt increasingly extreme ideals and aspirations — something Mueller calls «an essential process in formulating a terrorist's mindset.»

Perhaps if you spent more time thinking about all of the issues that people are putting in front of you, instead of knee - jerk, ideological responding on this blog, you might begin to understand that some of us do feel responsibility and seek actions that are responsible even if we have to forgo some previously held belief that we have the freedom to act in certain ways.