Sentences with phrase «modern social philosophies»

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Or Russell Hittinger's path - breaking «Two Thomisms, Two Modernities»: «The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

Perhaps ironically, it is an ingenious blend of social science and theological philosophy that has found favor with both the detractors and defenders of modern religion.

Writing on Dooyeweerd's social and political philosophy, Jonathan Chaplin points out that «the modern state actually made possible the arrival of civil society.

Under the influence of scientism, the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, modern philosophy and the suspicions cast by social science many intelligent people today suspect that religious symbols are no more than psychic or social «projections.»

The Vantra philosophy is to make a difference in the world by bringing together ecological sustainability, compassionate lifestyles, harmonious social life, ancient dietary principles and advanced modern nutrition.

The moral I draw from Reeves's contempt for the structures of the past is that the first step towards a new public philosophy is to re-phrase the tough - minded, challenging social liberal commitment to positive freedom in a modern idiom.

Keynes offered the Attlee Government a macro-economic framework for post-war recovery; Hayek's «market society» offered Mrs Thatcher's Tories a roadmap away from post-war social democratic serfdom; Giddens's «Third Way» socio - philosophy allowed «New» Labour to synthesise or transcend the old dogmas of state - centric social democracy and neo-liberalism»; and Phillip Blond gave a critique of the market and the state in order for Cameron to claim «society» and its renewal as the key priority of modern Conservatism.

The social unrest of the late 1960s, leading up to the oil crisis of 1973, were central to the development of the «back to nature» philosophy of the modern environmental movement.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

So the advent of the Anthropocene shatters the self - contained world of social analysis that is the terrain of modern social science, and explains why those intellectuals who remain within it find it impossible to «analyze» the politics, sociology or philosophy of climate change in a way that is true to the science.

The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.