Sentences with phrase «liberal intellectuals who»

China's detention of internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei has provoked a petition urging his release, exposing growing alarm among the country's liberal intellectuals who see him as a test of how far a wave of detentions to stifle dissent could go.

The best part of the «joshing» comes when Rorty, who is a professor at a state university, goes on to distinguish slyly between the liberal intellectuals who are playing this game and the taxpayers, incapable of liberal ironism, who are paying them to play it.

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?

The neoconservatives, Dorrien explains, are a group of originally liberal intellectuals who became disaffected with McGovernism.

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

Not exact matches

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

Doctrinal pluralism, despite its intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the leadership of the church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 Dean.

Some intellectuals who most favor Trump and some who most detest him agree that he is bringing the end of the liberal experiment; they just disagree about whether that is a good thing.

«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.

«Intellectuals», also known here as «liberals», that's who.

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.

They can't blame themselves, and they can't bring themselves to believe the liberals have an intellectual edge on them, so the next best alternative is blame all the socialist Catholics who infiltrated their ranks over the years.

If we proceed on those terms... David can listen rather more to Conservative MPs, who represent the real people of this country, and give rather less regard to the Liberal Democrat intellectual urban elite, with their student politics idea of reforming the constitution and taking forward green policies.

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).

But criticism from these leading intellectuals who are certainly liberal at the least?

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.

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 60s.

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.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

«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.

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..