Sentences with phrase «liberal intellectuals for»

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.

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

Katz criticizes liberal intellectuals for failing to rebut the conservatives.

Not exact matches

It reflects a familiar pattern: the liberal - progressive intellectual who is dissatisfied with the present and longs for a utopian future.

Rorty calls us «the liberal Rawlsian searchers for consensus» and «the community of the liberal intellectuals of the secular modern West» (CIS 12).

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 sake.

As long as he remained within the northern church, he had a forum for demonstrating to liberals that Calvinist orthodoxy could be articulated with intellectual rigor.

Hence both liberals and conservatives who reject the quest for a comprehensive overview could claim that given the course of intellectual life, Wesley would have followed the direction they have taken.

It is a before - your - eyes meltdown of the liberal legal establishment reputation's for intellectual rigor.

It was harder for liberals to disregard the neoconservatives, who had gained intellectual recognition while still on the left and who therefore could not so easily be treated as if they were not there.

It was pastor Martin Niemöller (1892 — 1984) commenting about how failure of Liberals and intellectuals to organize against the Nazi threat was to blame for the Nazi's rise to power.

As for economic equality, that is an issue that appears to generate more concern among the party's liberal intellectual elite than among its rank - and - file.

A couple years ago I wrote about my visit to Augustine College, a nano - institution with paltry resources that offers a one - year program of Christian liberal arts for kids who want serious intellectual and spiritual formation before entering college.

His vocation was to clear the path for hopeful solutions by first destroying the illusions which flourished among religious and secular liberals and intellectuals.

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.

Reading the diaries of Dietrich von Hildebrand from the late 1920s and early 1930s, I was powerfully struck by how the disdain of continental European Christian intellectuals for the messy pluralism of liberal democracy made too many of those thinkers vulnerable to the siren songs of the monism proposed by German National Socialism and Italian fascism.

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.

For decades liberal Christian churches have supplied the universities with uncommitted intellectuals and each new social and cultural movement with many of its most dedicated followers.

All liberals took for granted that ghetto Judaism represented a bad moral, spiritual, and intellectual condition.

... 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.

To base one's judgment of an entire political and philosophical tradition on a particular (contestable) reading of how one proto - liberal thinker (Kant) might or might not provide resources for someone like Nietzsche doesn't strike me as good intellectual practice.

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 policy.

When Noah Baumbach made his directorial debut, 1995's Kicking and Screaming, he became a strong voice for the generation of disaffected liberal arts intellectuals trying to find their way through the world after graduating from college.

, he became a strong voice for the generation of disaffected liberal arts intellectuals trying to find their way through the world after graduating from college.

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.

My classmates found Oberlin boring, but it was a good place for me, tranquil and liberal, the intellectual equivalent of corduroy.

«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.

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.»

Significantly there is no polite word intellectual discourse for someone who does not buy into the whole new liberal agenda.

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..