Sentences with phrase «liberal intellectual in»

He was a Jewish liberal intellectual in the Depression era in New York, and he was a post-Holocaust international humanist.»

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In the last election, the Liberals and the Greens were the only parties that had the intellectual integrity to accept this fact, and they made an effort to deal with it.

In fact pluralism is part of the intellectual structure of Liberal Protestantism.

... In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the European Westernization of Egypt produced intellectual titans of liberal secularism: Taha Hussein, Muhammad Hussein Haykal, Abbas Mahmud al - Aqqad, and more....

Normal nihilism is not, however, a condition that grips only intellectuals, but rather forms everyone in liberal social orders.

He clearly bested Al Gore in the debates in 2000, though this was more the result of Gore's own implosion than Bush's skill; and he held his own against John Kerry, whom the liberal media had built up as an intellectual giant.

Founded by Michael Novak and Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, Crisis rendered invaluable service in the 1980s and 1990s by challenging with intellectual force the hegemony then enjoyed by liberal proponents of the «post-Vatican II Church» as represented by, inter alia, lay - edited Commonweal and Jesuit - edited America.

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.

How is it possible that while the sitting president of the United States squarely opposed same - sex marriage just a few years ago, the liberal intellectuals who supported him passionately also condemn any opposition to same - sex marriage as bigotry, rooted in cultural backwardness?

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.

In the other model are seven «liberal - free» characteristics in the philosophers» tradition, which Kimball summarizes thus:» (1) Epistemological skepticism underlies (2) the free and (3) intellectual search for truth, which is forever elusive, and so all possible views must be (4) tolerated and given (5) equal hearing (6) with the final decision left to each individual, (7) who pursues truth for its own sakIn the other model are seven «liberal - free» characteristics in the philosophers» tradition, which Kimball summarizes thus:» (1) Epistemological skepticism underlies (2) the free and (3) intellectual search for truth, which is forever elusive, and so all possible views must be (4) tolerated and given (5) equal hearing (6) with the final decision left to each individual, (7) who pursues truth for its own sakin the philosophers» tradition, which Kimball summarizes thus:» (1) Epistemological skepticism underlies (2) the free and (3) intellectual search for truth, which is forever elusive, and so all possible views must be (4) tolerated and given (5) equal hearing (6) with the final decision left to each individual, (7) who pursues truth for its own sake.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

When liberal essayist Robert Reich summarizes a conservative policy in his collection of essays The Resurgent Liberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roliberal essayist Robert Reich summarizes a conservative policy in his collection of essays The Resurgent Liberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roLiberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roots....

In an article published in L'Osservatore Romano, Israel, who is a professor of mathematics at La Sapienza, argues that the reason the liberal «openness» has been put aside in the case of the Holy Father has been explained by Marcello Cini — one of the intellectuals opposing the Pope's visit — in his letter to the University's DeaIn an article published in L'Osservatore Romano, Israel, who is a professor of mathematics at La Sapienza, argues that the reason the liberal «openness» has been put aside in the case of the Holy Father has been explained by Marcello Cini — one of the intellectuals opposing the Pope's visit — in his letter to the University's Deain L'Osservatore Romano, Israel, who is a professor of mathematics at La Sapienza, argues that the reason the liberal «openness» has been put aside in the case of the Holy Father has been explained by Marcello Cini — one of the intellectuals opposing the Pope's visit — in his letter to the University's Deain the case of the Holy Father has been explained by Marcello Cini — one of the intellectuals opposing the Pope's visit — in his letter to the University's Deain his letter to the University's Dean.

Then, in the cultural and intellectual revolution of the post-conciliar years, he was seen as a conservative because he criticised the liberal theology and catechetics that now became dominant, and he warned that influential voices in the Church were failing to teach the full, orthodox doctrine and morality of Catholicism.

In their preoccupation with critical thinking, intellectual clarity and tolerance, some liberal Christians forget that their only access to this historic faith is someone else's testimony.

«Not all who try to follow the Bible in detail as well as outline are fundamentalists,» says Wright, «nor are they all guilty of those cultural, intellectual, and moral failings which North American (and other) liberals perceive in North American (and other) conservatives.

Paradoxically, the most sympathetic response to Spinoza among Jewish intellectuals was not in the liberal circles of Germany but in the traditional areas of Eastern Europe.

It is ironical that neo-orthodoxy, born as a radical protest against liberal conformism, became one of the fashionable ideologies for the Eisenhower period in American intellectual life — that time when men sagely advised us that the real battle was not bohemia or radical politics or ideology, but the mystery of the inner life.

Such were the expectations of liturgical liberals of the late «50s and early «60s, progressive Catholic intellectuals who encouraged reform and were involved in liturgical experimentation.

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

Or, if we are liberal intellectuals for example, as having the features of a liberal intellectual who does not believe in the Devil.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

In any case, when contemporary liberals call themselves progressive, they're hearkening back to their intellectual predecessors.

At the same time, the two most senior Liberal Democrats in the cabinet, Vince Cable and Chris Huhne, were, notwithstanding their obvious intellectual strengths, not known as nature's keenest team players.

One reason the Liberal Democrat contribution to the coalition is so hard to define is that Conservative intellectuals have come to agree with much of what Nick Clegg's party believes in.

In his speech in Chicago in 1999, Tony Blair's outlining of the principle of liberal interventionism set the intellectual rationale for his foreign and defence policIn his speech in Chicago in 1999, Tony Blair's outlining of the principle of liberal interventionism set the intellectual rationale for his foreign and defence policin Chicago in 1999, Tony Blair's outlining of the principle of liberal interventionism set the intellectual rationale for his foreign and defence policin 1999, Tony Blair's outlining of the principle of liberal interventionism set the intellectual rationale for his foreign and defence policy.

Located on Tufts» Medford / Somerville campus, the School of Engineering offers a rigorous engineering education in a unique environment that blends the intellectual and technological resources of a world - class research university with the strengths of a top - ranked liberal arts college.

chinito, nice smile, loves to have fun with anyone, intellectual, outgoing, conservative in some ways but liberal in many ways.

He alternately proud and embarrassed by his mum and her salesman boyfriend who are in sharp contrast to Alice's more liberal intellectual — and ultimately nude — parents (played by veteran British actors Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance).

The foundation is committed to providing intellectual and financial leadership in the effort to promote and strengthen liberal education.

While I have come to recognize the value of such schools for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.

Decades before conservative Gov. Jeb Bush was pushing America's first statewide voucher program, liberal intellectuals were promoting the notion in The New York Times Magazine.

Its a very liberal and has long been the political and intellectual center of the nation and is home to UNAN - the second oldest university in Central America.

Students who declare Fine Arts as their major immerse themselves in self - discovery and experimentation, supplementing their studio classes with elective courses in art history, theory, liberal studies and professional practices that further broaden their cultural, historical, and intellectual horizons.

The six installations included in the show were created at a time when earnest discussions around identity politics in liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.

In 1956 these abstract painters joined the circle around the extraordinary Monsignor Otto Mauer, a liberal Catholic intellectual who set up a gallery, next to St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, at which Mikl frequently exhibited in the late 1950s and 60In 1956 these abstract painters joined the circle around the extraordinary Monsignor Otto Mauer, a liberal Catholic intellectual who set up a gallery, next to St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, at which Mikl frequently exhibited in the late 1950s and 60in Vienna, at which Mikl frequently exhibited in the late 1950s and 60in the late 1950s and 60s.

Black Mountain College, open from 1933 to 1957 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, was the leading experimental, liberal arts college in America and attracted an astonishing number of artistic and intellectual luminaries as faculty and students.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which also represents Thompson, is showing African - American artist Beauford Delaney; his portraits, city scenes, and abstractions are marked by spirited, liberal brushstrokes, and tell the stories of the intellectual circles he traversed in New York, and Paris, where he moved 1953 and was inspired to abandon figuration.

Ms. Goodman, who grew up in a liberal, intellectual Manhattan household surrounded by art, loved Europe and saw in its studios and galleries immensely talented but vastly underappreciated artists and a largely untapped market, in that order.

«The liberal blogosphere reserves its bitterest contempt not for the loathsome battalions of the right — Bush loyalists may be criminals and sociopaths, according to the left, but at least they are true to their beliefs — but rather for the centrists and pragmatists in politics and the media who apparently believe nothing, and who in their intellectual and moral depravity affect to see both sides of an argument.

The other scientist who met with Trump in January was Dr. David Gelernter, the computer science pioneer at Yale University also known for his conservative views and wide - ranging writing, including indictments of liberal intellectuals for allegedly tainting academia.

It should complement that with a push for liberal markets for international trade and development in clean technologies (something that has been part of the Doha round and has been pursued through Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation) and for more effective intellectual property protection.

The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.»

The degree to which liberal, collectivist and communitarian values have been seen to dominate or share Canada's political culture has depended upon the manner in which Canadian intellectual and ideological history has been interpreted.

The first UK barrister to blog is «geeklawyer», specialising in intellectual property, technology and media issuesDescribed as an IP lawyer who once did R&D in the U.S. for the «evil American empire» and who blogs about IP, civil liberties, the legal system, and «angry liberal» things..