Not exact matches
He has consistently advocated a
kind of post-political brand
of governance that seems to assume that partisan conflicts are never reflections
of genuine versus spurious disagreement, are always based upon miscommunication or ideological
dogmatism, and are never the result
of competing worldviews that are held with deep, thoughtful conviction and are therefore resistant to facile revision.
As odd as it seems today, this thirst for reading fueled a renewed drive within humankind for a
kind of scientific ecumenism, or scientific
dogmatism, depending on one's point
of view.
It is backward looking, a
kind of longing quest to rediscover tradition, to make life simple, and (for this reason) it probably shares an «elective affinity» with
dogmatism, bigotry, and political conservatism
of other
kinds.