Sentences with phrase «modern ideals of»

«Finally, Canada has not solved the fundamental difficulty that besets all efforts to adapt the ancient profession of the law to modern ideals of popular self - government.

They have roots in cultural conditioning, history, media, trends in exercise and physical aesthetics, and archaic vs. modern ideals of femininity.

Thus to the extent that an environmental ethic would have to grow out of at least some appreciation and reverence for the mystery of nature, modern ideals of clear and exhaustive explanation can easily prove deleterious if they overrun their legitimate epistemological margins.

McLuhan locates the root of Cartesian certainty, the notion of clear and distinct ideas in an intelligible and perfectly coherent system of logic and reason (arguably the genesis of the modern ideal of rationality), in the invention of movable print.

Not exact matches

Becoming a renowned leader in one's respective field of business, enjoying the reputation of a desirable employer and earning large profits make for the holy trinity of modern entrepreneurship ideals, but only a selected few -LSB-...]

The female - focused company is part of a wave of modern sororities geared to female entrepreneurs, merging a fierce can - do motto with feminist ideals tailor - made for a generation of self - starters.

Stephen's extensive experience in wood products manufacturing and woodlands management places him in an ideal position to help Canfor meet the rapidly changing needs of the modern forest industry and growing global markets.

MLK Now, in its third consecutive year focused on the contributions of women to the modern movement for parity in the celebration of the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was held at Riverside Church Jan. 15, 2018, the site where Dr. King gave his controversial 1967 «Beyond Vietnam» speech.

The re-invention of the former International Toy Center at 200 Fifth Avenue is the ideal integration of landmark architecture, modern design and green technology to form an incomparable Midtown South business address.

What the Haredi have done is simple, even admirable: they've attempted to find a way to integrate modern practices with their religious ideals, which we ought to, as citizens of a nation which values religious freedom and upholds the right to practice, respect, not bemoan.

The modern lesson in this is that we must not cling too dogmatically to an ideal form of household.

As a matter of fact, the ability to recognize anti-Semitism as such is chiefly a modern capacity fostered by democratic ideals and sharpened by the reaction of civilized consciences to the racial atrocities of nazism.

At any rate, Deleuze himself invites the comparison, referring to Process and Reality as «one of the greatest books of modern philosophy,» and linking his own use of «descriptive notions» to that deployment of «empirico - ideal notions [which] we find in Whitehead» (cf. D&R 284).

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

And, as Deleuze adds, the actual imperfection of the «list of empirico - ideal notions that we find in Whitehead... makes Process and Reality one of the greatest books of modern philosophy.

As E.E.Y. Hales has succinctly pointed out in his Pio Nono: First Modern Pope, Dupanloup posited the thesis and the antithesis of the propositions» the former referring to the ideal of the true society, the latter to what is possible and just in the existing state of society.

In Kagan's ideal world, then, Europe would enjoy its «postmodern» zone of peace while acknowledging the need for «modern» American power to protect it and other regions from «premodern» threats.

Thus, individuals and societies need a system of values by which to live; the nature and pace of modern cultural transformations have cut men adrift from the security of established ideals.

If modern liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.

To assert that modern education should be infused with the ideals of recreation is to affirm the centrality of liberal studies in the curriculum.

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

But modern secularity gets rid of even such intimations, and so perfects this pagan logic of sacrificial obliteration of oneself for some ideal, or for the State, or for both.

This ideal is breaking down at some points in modern India, but for centuries and even today in most respects Sita embodies the Indian ideal of feminine charm and loveliness and character.

This experience, crystallized into permanent form in the Old Testament, constitutes the most remarkable theory of government that came out of the ancient world and at the same time an ideal that rebukes and challenges the distressing imperfections of our boasted modern democracy.

It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

In all these ways it expressed a modern liberal ideal that contrasted with the hierarchical domination and exclusiveness of most of the human past.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

Through the diffusion of information by modern methods of travel and communication, democratic ideals are transmitted from one people to another.

The explanation of the «living» in terms of non-living stuff has become the ideal of much modern scientific inquiry.

He stood in vehement opposition to the modern customs, which presumably included the luxurious court, the collapse of old simplicities, the conscription of farmers and shepherds into military service, mounting taxation, the decay of old nomadic ideals of brotherhood.

Without the sphere of unconscious and lifeless chunks of matter delineated by dualism such a methodological ideal (which animates current efforts especially in biology to find the physico - chemical «secret» of life) could hardly have taken hold in modern scientific thought.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

The «new life» of the returnees expresses itself negatively in a rejection of the ideals and convictions as well as the culture and customs of the modern world, and positively in a meticulous observance of the manifold rituals in traditional Judaism.

Finally, we take encouragement in this work of remote marriage preparation from Pope Francis who declared recently (address to Roman Rota 22/1/2016), «Therefore, with a renewed sense of responsibility, the Church continues to propose marriage in its essential elements — offspring, the good of the spouses, unity, indissolubility, sacredness — not as an ideal for a few, despite modern models centred on the ephemeral and the transitory, but as a reality that, with the grace of Christ, can be lived by all the baptised faithful.»

It could be argued that such a synthetic religion would provide a suitable acknowledgment of the Supreme Wisdom behind all observable phenomena, and while properly respecting the visions and ideals of religious founders, would not affront modern intelligence by retaining what is plainly irrational.

The ideal modern American bourgeois individual is featured as a self - contained and self - actualized individual who can be properly understood apart from the principalities and powers that operate in society and history.4 This stereotype may be difficult for us to seriously question, for our own images of self are shaped by this very ideal.

One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.

The most serious error in modern esthetics has been the general rejection of the ideal of purity or nobility on the ground of esthetic irrelevance.

It is a twofold harmony, logical and aesthetic, he said at the end of the first chapter of Science and the Modern World: «While the harmony of logic lies upon the universe as an iron necessity, the aesthetic harmony stands before it as a living ideal molding the general flux in its broken progress towards finer, subtler issues.»

I do not believe Whitehead means this only as history of the origins of modern science, for the philosophy of organism included not only harmony, but rhythm, balance, series, progress — all modes of order are affirmed of nature and «set before us as ideals» (SMW 28, extended from harmony and progress to other modes of order).

Let us assume that the strangely contagious modern obsession with democratic ideals is nothing else than the feeling and liking Man has acquired for a process which, by the collective organization of the zoological group to which he belongs, is carrying him towards certain new states of super-personalization — or, which comes to the same thing, super-reflection.

Looking out onto the castle, the spaciously modern, approx. 500m» conference rooms are the ideal place for meetings and events of all kinds.

Modern soy based meat substitutes are ideal for replacing meat in meals and oils and milk derived from nuts and vegetables mean that vegans are eating virtually identical dishes to everyone else.With the internet providing a plethora of recipes and food ideas suited to the vegan diet plan and food establishments becoming increasingly aware of and keen to appeal vegan's eating habits, adopting veganism as a lifestyle has never been easier or delicious.

«Florida is the ideal location for our newest showroom,» said Vlad Spivak, CEO of Modern Line Furniture.

However, while the exposed white rock maple tongue - and - groove plank hardwood floor of the skating rink exists even today, the modern incarnation of the Hatt Building is home to a group of elite hotel rooms, each boasting a King canopy bed, fireplace and slipper - backed tub as well as a separate walk - in shower and comfy sitting area with lounge chairs and a velvet ottoman that make these cozy yet elegant rooms an ideal retro retreat.

It is bright and spacious with modern décor, communal tables and large windows - ideal for people - watching in the trendy neighbourhood of Malasaña.

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Some voices have suggested that Liverpool's Northern Irish boss could be the ideal man to replace Hodgson, with his focus on youth and fluid, modern style of football.