Sentences with phrase «idealist thought»

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

That's a nice, idealist thought, but the reality is that social media (and all social media platforms) aren't accessible to everyone.

The problem is that no one in this liberal nest of turtleneck - wearing idealists thinks Meredith is right for Everett.

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But Zuckerberg also admits that the idealist train of thought might have blinded the company to potential misuses of Facebook's toolset.

I think we sometimes can get just as romantic and idealist about freedom as we can get about nature.

It is — and this is the real point — the thought and the presumption that there can be no reconciliation of these theories with historic Christianity, which places upon the critic thesubjective necessity of a modernist interpretation, whether it be idealist or materialist.

I have often thought that some nature idealists are a bit naive and don't have a very good understanding of the ruthless nature of Nature.

But the third source of Tillich's thought, the tradition of German idealist philosophy, gives greater emphasis to impersonal conceptions and is more evident in his systematic discussion of the doctrine of God.33 He does not accept Hegel's vision of participation in the all - inclusive Absolute in which all differences are overcome in harmonious synthesis.

There are plenty of moral idealists in the church who confuse the issue by thinking that they can establish justice in a simple manner.

It had another philosophic rationale in the idealist doctrine of the absolute truth and good reflected for every man in the community of value, as in Josiah Royce's thought.

Hartshorne's increasing willingness subsequently in his career to acknowledge his indebtedness to C.S. Peirce in particular, and to a host of other important historical antecedents (especially to Josiah Royce and to a number of personal idealists), helped broaden the discussion of what process thought metaphysically (as well as historically) entails.

Upon his metaphysics of sex Humboldt develops his theory of genius, a theme to which the philosophers and artists of the eighteenth century had given so much thought and which looms large in the aesthetics of idealist and romantic thinkers alike.

I think that neither Meland nor Loomer would have spoken this way, and that the difference lies in whatever it was that made «Wieman first an idealist, who could believe that human possibility is explained by an absolute potentiality.12

One should perhaps stress here that Fish is not arguing that Milton is an idealist, in the sense of someone who believes that «thinking makes it so» and that un happy situations can be simply wished away by the cheap expedient of declaring them otherwise.

She talked about her working - class upbringing (her brother is a bus driver) and she had a polite for rebuke for those middle - class idealists who think that the Labour party was founded by people inspired by a philanthropic concern for others.

It's a wonderful thought, but a little idealist.

Can't quite agree with your characterization of Lincoln - or Obama for that matter - as being impatient or divisive (unless I'm misreading you on that point); in both cases, I think they did about the best they could with recalcitrant opposition (obviously more severe in Lincoln's case) and that they correctly read their respective times in pushing certain policies through (and both were, in large part a mixture of idealism and pragmatism - too pragmatic for a lot of other idealists).

9:30 am — TCM — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra puts on his idealist hat to tell the story of Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an inexperienced young man appointed as a junior senator because the corrupt senior senator thinks heíll be easy to control.

9:15 am — TCM — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra puts on his idealist hat to tell the story of Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an inexperienced young man appointed as a junior senator because the corrupt senior senator thinks he'll be easy to control.

As to my personal choice, I'm going to surprise even myself and single out Washington in «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» The film is undeniably uneven, but Washington's performance as an idiosyncratic idealist is thought out in such detail, and so different from the characters he usually plays, that it won me over completely.

Call me a crazed idealist, but I think that instead we need to convince consumers that they need to pay money because that's what supports the storytelling they want; and I fear the entertainment industries of the world will eventually find that what feels like hanging on tooth and nail actually means slowly gnawing their own limbs off.

I thought he made a great case and I applaud his ideals (I can relate since I'm an occasional idealist as well).

They also need to govern themselves via their local culture, not someplace far away with misguided idealists who think they know what's best for all.

As a basis of working, he acknowledged and offset two related and oppressive qualities of utopian thought: first, that the logic of spatial organization is political and is based on exclusion as much as inclusion; second, that utopian projects develop an idealist space isolated from material reality.

However, the pairing of Novros's «Untitled» oil on canvas, (15 parts)(1969), which was shown in his last memorable exhibit at Paula Cooper last September of 2009, and Judd's «Untitled» (1989), a Douglas Fir plywood piece, was splendidly tuned, partly because it's an interesting exchange of two artists, one, a logical empiricist who aspires to be an idealist, the other, an idealist, who thinks himself a logical empiricist.

So as far as my practice goes, I'd say I'm using postmodern techniques and materials in the service of idealist, modernist thought.

When Bushwick artist Deborah Brown thinks back to the early meetings for Bushwick Open Studios, which celebrates its ninth anniversary this weekend, she marvels at the fact that just «a small group of committed idealists» helped created today's immense, annual festival that brings together nearly 1,000 registered artists and 500 art spaces for the public to view.

When the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) was first founded in a quarry in Wales, most people thought it was a bunch of hippies pursuing an idealist pipe dream.