Sentences with phrase «in liberal philosophy»

1, No. 2 (Summer 1961), pp. 12 — 18; Ralph Raico, The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1970), p. 67; and Raul A. Rahe, Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, & the Modern Prospect (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 143 — 280.

The sense of the end of history has been expressed, both in the extraordinary popularity of dystopias, as well as, paradoxically, in liberal philosophy that does not lack utopian traits (Francis Fukuyama).

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Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

It could just as well be argued that those in the liberal arts become more adept at literature, music, or philosophy and are, therefore, «better educated».

After all, he probably would not accept them from a priest known to espouse a more liberal philosophy than his, especially as that person would probably not be a «Real American» in his and Sarah's eyes.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy.

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

It needs to be stressed that the interest in which the «liberal arts,» including literature and culminating in philosophy, were read was religious.

Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.

As to curriculum, Dupré points out that many Catholic schools have reduced the ideal of a Catholic liberal education to «a few courses on religion, ethics, and a smattering of philosophy in an otherwise wholly pragmatically oriented curriculum.»

By the end of his long life in 1935, Holmes was virtually a national monument, and liberal intellectuals found it convenient to portray him positively as a forerunner of the new governing philosophy.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

Randall E. Auxier is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Liberal Arts at Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma City, OK 73106 He is also Editor of the journal, The Personalist Forum.

In the General Introduction to the series of which this book was one, R. Gregor Smith says that «neither the idealist nor the linguistic philosophy, neither the liberal nor the neo-Calvinist nor the neo-Thomist theology is able itself to speak properly to the needs of our time.»

While Crosby's interest in this article is limited to Tertullian's quandary (and our own) of relating the elements of the Christian university, that is, philosophy, literature, history, and the liberal arts, to the life of redemption and faith, the underlying issue at stake seems easily to extend beyond intellectual culture.

So we read, on the first count, that philosophy is prized in Silicon Valley; or, in arguments made popular by Fareed Zakaria, the liberal arts are essential for innovation and so the promotion of prosperity.

Roe became so quickly institutionalized because it reflects a philosophy held by many in our society (whether «liberal» or «conservative») that the greatest right is the right to privacy and that the power of the state must regard itself as a means thereto.

Studies in language, mathematics, science, art, history, and philosophy are not made liberal merely by recognizing and calling attention to the creative factors in these disciplines and in the human activities with which they deal.

He is editor - elect of Religious Education, editor of Philosophy of Education 1992, and the author of numerous articles, including «Science and Spirituality: Tradition and Interpretation in Liberal Education,» which will appear in Curriculum Inquiry.

If this can be done we shall have passed beyond the crisis of liberal Christianity; for the liberal view of the relation of Christian love to moral problems is in difficulty today precisely because the philosophy of history on which it is based does not sufficiently recognize the tragic obstacles which are set in the way of the life of love.

Both liberal political philosophy and liberal Christianity have put a large measure of trust in the achievement of the good society through establishment of a legal constitutional order which embodies the essential ideals of justice and equality.

He graduated with a liberal studies degree and down the road plans to pursue graduate studies in philosophy and theology with the intent of being a professor.]

By the way, I have a B.A. in Philosophy / Theology from Point Loma Nazarene University (a school known for having some very liberal theology professors (not a fundamentalist Christian school).

Oakeshott consistently focused both on the essence of the activity (poetry, philosophy, liberal learning) and on the character of the individual who engages in it.

Part of the problem is that liberals, because they are always looking for ways to recast the faith in new concepts and categories, easily fall prey to the latest jargons of science, philosophy, psychology and sociology.

Moreover, he shares the liberal concern that interpreters of the Bible should be in dialogue with all that has gone on in «the great romance of culture «13 and all that is happening in contemporary experience, in Ricoeur's hands interpretation is always confronted with the perspective of «counter disciplines»: physiology, psychoanalysis sociology, anthropology, linguistics, the history of philosophy.

But in the past seven years it has re-established itself with a talented staff and strong denominational backing, and again offers a varied list of philosophy, current affairs, social criticism, liberal theology and belles - lettres.

In the 1940s it was a widely respected source of both general trade books and works of liberal philosophy and religion, publishing figures like Albert Schweitzer, James Baldwin and Arnold Toynbee.

I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.

The liberal sociopolitical theory of the Enlightenment, on the contrary, was «utilitarian in its ethical outlook, and atomistic in its social philosophy.

Born of a family high in the imperial administration, Chrysostom enjoyed an extended liberal education in philosophy and rhetoric.

An early work in political thought influenced by Whitehead's philosophy that stresses reason, individual freedom, and liberal democracy is Samuel H. Beers The City of Reason (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949).

The moral I draw from Reeves's contempt for the structures of the past is that the first step towards a new public philosophy is to re-phrase the tough - minded, challenging social liberal commitment to positive freedom in a modern idiom.

Founded shortly after the death of heterodox sociologist Daniel Bell, Breakthrough Journal embraces Bell's view that «A new public philosophy will have to be created in order that something we recognize as a liberal society may survive.»

If Barack Obama is the Democrat nominee in the general election, the American people will have a clear choice between two different visions — Senator Obama's liberal, elitist philosophy and John McCain's faith in the small town values that continue to make America great.

Harassment is a bad thing anywhere, but in this case, it's a deep betrayal of the values of equality and dignity that underly liberal philosophy and the the progressive movement.

Cuomo's late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco in 1984, which established Mario Cuomo as the leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party, and a counterpoint to the philosophy of then - President Ronald Reagan.

I'd actually consider contacting the Parliamentary Candidates Association and asking them how somebody with views that far out of whack with Liberal Democrat policy and philosophy got to be an approved candidate in the first place...

The VVD is a party founded on liberal philosophy, [38] traditionally being the most ardent supporter of «free markets» of all Dutch political parties, promoting political, economic liberalism, classical liberalism, cultural liberalism, but also (in contrast to this) committed to the idea of the welfare state.

John Maynard Keynes; a life - long Liberal, Keynes» political and economic philosophy is over-trivialised, but was in fact far more subtle and powerful than is often realised.

Writing in a pamphlet published this morning — entitled The Liberal Republic — to mark the thinktank's birthday, the Demos director, Richard Reeves, and former Blair speechwriter Phil Collins spell out their philosophy, arguing that a «Liberal line» runs through all the three main parties and is more interesting than classic dividing lines of left and right.

Inspired by the liberal philosophy of Bentham, in the 1800s Robert Owen proved that commercial success went hand in hand with valuing workers.

2) This was published in 1690 and I likely the first widely read discourse on what is now considered the classic liberal philosophy and is considered the source of the liberalism movement.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, while there was a strong division between astronomy / astrology (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of the more prestigious discipline of philosophy).

Attenborough's heartfelt admiration for the man's philosophy of resistance through peace is indisputable, yet it is expressed exclusively in conventional coffee - book epic tropes that render it a swollen underdog tale, with Gandhi as the exotic center of a huge, guest - star cast of Hollywood Yanks (Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen) lending liberal cred and old - pro Brits (Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard) supplying Imperial villainy.

The scholars and directors interviewed here speak of a certain savviness with regard to her image, and various clips show Mansfield speaking multiple languages, playing violin and espousing liberal philosophies in her charming voice.

The tradeoffs are variations on the fundamental fissure Godwin and Kemerer identify in liberal political philosophy: individual autonomy versus public accountability; religious freedom versus separation of church and state; cultural diversity versus coherent national values.