Many people have raised that concern — and since it's in the public discourse it's obviously something we're looking into,» said Schroepfer.
I've always said that Roger Pielke asks a good question when he asks what the role of science
is in the public discourse, but I could not bring myself to credit much of his answer.
Not exact matches
He continued: «The type of action seem to
be where the largest areas of debate exist
in the
public discourse.
In the U.S., today's
public discourse on the sway of the Internet giants and their impact on society
is at the level of a mere whisper.
A Comcast executive wrote
in December to the FCC that «
public discourse on open Internet issues has now reached a fever pitch» and that «emotion and hyperbole
are substituting for facts.»
In truth, social media
is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually
was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared
public sphere and its dynamically overlapping
discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.
«Until we get better information into the
public discourse about how these platforms
are shaping the information environments that they control, we
are sort of talking about policy options
in the dark.»
Many of us see the risk of people using nonesense
in public discourse, and intend to prevent it from
being presented as relevant.
Our friend as Tom Harmon
is big on a CONSERVATIVE yet POSTMODERN response to the exchange
in PUBLIC DISCOURSE.
The clearest example of a deliberate adoption of one value at the expense of another, a judicial resolution that continues to distort
public choice and moral
discourse, may
be found
in the 1973 abortion decision of Roe v. Wade.
No, they
are protesting the way their student has
been vilified for engaging
in public discourse.
When Jews and Christians have something
in common to say to the world, especially when that message
is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious
public discourse fall by the wayside.
Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our
public discourse has its roots
in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they
are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.
The fact that Atheists can continue
in public discourse without fear of retribution
is a testament to the congeniality of all of us «close - minded bigots».
Republicans always through this into faces of any liberal they deem has gone to far
in public discourse: «Freedom of Speech
is protected speech, but anything you say will have consequences — sometimes unfavorable consequences.»
I do not use it as much as the Times does, and I think it should not
be used
in a way that precludes the conversation and persuasion that should
be, but
is not, the ordinary mode of
public discourse.
As anyone
in publishing could testify, it
was not an immediately obvious or intuitive combination: Newsletters
were big business
in those pre-Internet days, and
public - intellectual journals held an important position
in national
discourse.
Likewise, the positive
public and private reception of imperial moral
discourse is also confirmed by, for example, the distinctive changes
in group portraiture and the style of epitaphs that
are a distinguishing feature of the early empire.
It
is an attempt to identify
in modes of
discourse accessible to the
public those first principles of truth and justice that
are sufficiently clear as to
be adopted as bases for
public policy and the ordering of international life.
This kind of book can not
be original throughout, but it can
be of service, since most of the
public has little awareness of what
is common stock
in evangelical
discourse.
We resolve to participate
in public discourse about the issues and values that
are fundamental to our Christian worldview and to do so with civility and forthrightness.
His bold initiative, we
were told, contributed to raising the level of moral
discourse in public policy.
Why does it have to
be public, and why does it have to
be part of political
discourse in the year 2012!?
Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam
in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to
public discourse is not sustainable
in a world increasingly shaped by religions.
Participants
in this practice, known as scriptural reasoning,
are part of a movement that wants to protect religiously plural societies while simultaneously encouraging religious people to enter more deeply into
public discourse.
The pontiff wrote: «The result
is a dangerous dichotomy, since things can
be said there that would
be unacceptable
in public discourse, and people look to compensate for their own discontent by lashing out at others.
The full amplitude of the just war tradition would
be capable of considering such components of complicity and even entrapment as part of the definition of just cause, but our
public discourse has consistently described the case as if the history of Mesopotamia began
in August.
What the just war tradition
is really good for
is that together with pacifism it can identify and denounce the less restrained views which
in fact dominate
public discourse and decision - making.
In this respect I remain unconvinced that the kind of revisionist liberalism represented by John Rawls
is capable of providing us with a
public discourse sufficient to the task of shaping a morally decent society.
In these and many other ways, the case
is advanced that Christianity
is a
public proposal within the realm of authentically
public discourse, and requiring decisions of immeasurable consequences, both personal and cultural.
It would
be a great sadness if, looking back at this period, historians concluded that these conservatives, by their uncritical partisanship, succeeded only
in further discrediting the possibility of a religiously informed moral
discourse in public life.
If faith
in God
is serious, then any
discourse about that faith must
be public.
The religious right, most recently through the extremely dangerous «Tea Party,» have hi - jacked what SHOULD
be logical
public discourse or social programs, and turned them
in to a Bible fight by claiming, incorrectly, that this
is a Christian nation, and that we should
be legislating the Bible.
In serious
public discourse that impinges upon respect and social opportunity for real people, the protocol of presumed equality
is indispensable.
First, as I note at
Public Discourse today
in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers
in bioethics
are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has
been born.
In the long term, the only solution is the establishment of a culture of public discourse where competence in the area under discussion matters, not an obsession with «equality,» or whatever the next catchword will b
In the long term, the only solution
is the establishment of a culture of
public discourse where competence
in the area under discussion matters, not an obsession with «equality,» or whatever the next catchword will b
in the area under discussion matters, not an obsession with «equality,» or whatever the next catchword will
be.
If a woman who
is a feminist theologian
is to enter into the
public introspective
discourse shaping the story of important men
in such a way that her insights matter, this
discourse must change.
In my role as a «
public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited
discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but without the fear of
being caricatured, labeled or demonized.
In my opinion, this is a key verse in understanding Bible - based public discours
In my opinion, this
is a key verse
in understanding Bible - based public discours
in understanding Bible - based
public discourse.
Moreover, for the ministers of the Reformed churches «preaching»
was a symbolic word; it meant not only
public discourse but every action through which the gospel
was brought home and men
were moved to repent before God and to trust
in him.
Public discourse was never enough; private admonition, catechetical instruction, personal pastoral care, the administration of the sacrament the leadership of public worship — all these needed to be faithfully attended to; but in everything he did the preacher had one thing to do, namely, to bring home to men the gospel of divine
Public discourse was never enough; private admonition, catechetical instruction, personal pastoral care, the administration of the sacrament the leadership of
public worship — all these needed to be faithfully attended to; but in everything he did the preacher had one thing to do, namely, to bring home to men the gospel of divine
public worship — all these needed to
be faithfully attended to; but
in everything he did the preacher had one thing to do, namely, to bring home to men the gospel of divine love.
It
is instead the concrete demarcations that
are constantly subject to negotiation
in public discourse.
If no such evidence
is forthcoming, then one may fairly conclude that the real backing for the warrant must
be found elsewhere than
in a
public realm of
discourse — for example,
in the personal belief of the theologian.
Though the most productive moments of dialogue may take place
in private, the ostensible framework of dialogue
is that of
public discourse measured by results, joint statements, and so forth.
Branding someone as «religious»
in public discourse, he observes, often becomes a surefire way to dismiss what that person
is saying.
Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion
in public life and
discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.
Of course, this robust supernaturalism
is in some tension with the naturalist assumptions that dominate the
public discourse in a modern society.
The jeremiad
is a venerable genre
in American
public discourse.
It hardly seems necessary to argue that religion must
be allowed a voice
in public policy
discourse.
The belief has never
been absent from American
public life and
discourse, although
in the last half century many, and not least religious thinkers, have tried to discredit or marginalize it.