Sentences with phrase «idealistic arguments»

Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved by more idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.

But St. Thomas considered these idealistic arguments illegitimate since it was a fallacy, he claimed, to make a transition from the ideal to the real order.

The mistake in the traditional idealistic argument is not the method of searching for God in reason.

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Paradoxically, we believe the argument from reason would make God relevant to the world, not because reason is idealistic but precisely because it is the most immanent dimension of the evolving universe.

For no matter how hard I try, however eloquent, dynamic, or (at desperate moments) guilt - inducing I may be on Friday afternoon, on Monday morning my arguments have fallen flat and sunk into the muck, idealistic words overwhelmed by a depressingly powerful reality: Sunday Mass at the parish.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

«4th Time Around» is a song about a couple having an argument and later reconciling, while «My Back Pages» is Dylan's poignant look back at his own early, idealistic protest - song years.

While I don't deny that the researchers reveal an important side to the home - cooking debate that is raging in North America right now, fueled by passionately idealistic food writers and locavores on one side and pushed back by low - income families, Big Ag, and the processed food industry on the other side, the basic argument that «home cooking isn't for everyone» just doesn't sit well with me.

arguments that legalisation of such practices will inevitably result in the exploitation by the rich (recipients) of the poor (donors) to their profound disadvantage, qualms about the ethically suspect source of the organs to be transplanted, namely, as here, from executed prisoners; and quaint and idealistic, but arguably antiquated notions that donations are always made altruistically.