Sentences with phrase «not idealistic»

It's grounded on what actually works in relationships that are happy and stable, not idealistic notions or anecdotal evidence of what marriage ought to be.

After all, you want potential dates to like you for who you are, not an idealistic online version of yourself.

This is not idealistic or implausible.

The blog is realistic, not idealistic, which is a very welcome change from some of the «all - too - perfect» blogs you may have come across.

The America I believe in and was raised in is not a idealistic utopia free from problems and conflict, but it is a place that strives towards truth and equality and justice for all.

Even on an individualistic - relativistic and not an idealistic - legalistic stance, the tendency is to view the ends of moral striving in terms of self - fulfillment, a «perfectionistic» image.

The method is realistic, not idealistic: Whitehead remarks that instead of describing, in Kantian fashion, how subjective data pass into the appearance of an objective world, he describes how subjective experience emerges from an objective world.

The proposal that aggression should be resisted by hugging a terrorist is not idealistic; it is simply dumb.

Please adjust your thinking according to reality and FACTUAL evidences about god's ACTIONS as EVIDENCED and not some idealistic egoist psychosis and disillusion projection about «HOW» you think god is.

This wasn't some idealistic naïve college student nonsense: Severine...

These aren't idealistic, academic musings.

We also coined the term «Normal Marital Sadism,» so our optimism isn't an idealistic fantasy.

Not exact matches

I'm not seeing a reason why, aside from people being overly idealistic and thinking, «Man, it'd be awesome to be on Mars.»

Of course, you can't leap from being an idealistic young person to a world - changing leader all in one go, he tells ambitious would - be trailblazers.

«As a company, we were too idealistic and optimistic and didn't focus enough on preventing abuse or thinking through how people could use the tools our platform provides to do harm,» Facebook said in a statement to Entrepreneur.

In idealistic Silicon Valley, avoiding lawsuits isn't the kind of motive entrepreneurs will readily cop to, although it's clearly a chief factor.

But that hasn't stopped the most idealistic and ambitious entrepreneurs from trying.

But while the corporate gig gave him prestige, stability, and a hefty paycheck, he couldn't shake the idealistic urge.

Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power by letting go,» but these directives don't seem idealistic when coming from Harder, founder of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.

The idealistic will tell you to choose the adviser whose intellect and work makes you gasp, whose office you can visit for three hours and still not be done talking.

But patents aren't frivolities to be discarded on an idealistic whim.

Without denying worldly concerns, is it not possible that some of these medieval people may have actually believed in the idealistic motives they proclaimed?

Well, I'm not as idealistic as I once was.

I personally would not be contacting an ex with something like that unless there was some agenda, but perhaps her motives were idealistic.

Paradoxically, we believe the argument from reason would make God relevant to the world, not because reason is idealistic but precisely because it is the most immanent dimension of the evolving universe.

The mistake in the traditional idealistic argument is not the method of searching for God in reason.

However, as I've gotten older, I've developed a less idealistic perspective on adoption, realizing that adoption carries with it its own set of challenges, challenges I don't want to take lightly.

Charles Morris, not long before he died, told me that he regarded me as «the greatest living idealistic philosopher.»

I know I have a «too» idealistic view, but in the words of Rodney King, «Can't we all just get along?»

For it is not true that only the most stupid, narrow - minded and clerical men rise to the highest ecclesiastical offices, so that a generous, holy and idealistic people would have a wholly unworthy clergy.

The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty.

The latter is a tangled problem at best, but it is clear that among the important founders of the process perspective — specifically I mean James, Peirce, Bergson, Whitehead, Dewey, and Hartshorne — it is Hartshorne's work which comes closest to being a kind of personalism.1 Whitehead explicitly sets aside the personalist perspective in Religion in the Making, considering its claims beyond the possibility of being established.2 On the other side, a number of personalists have been sympathetic to process thought, and Brightman is surely principal among them.3 Here I will not investigate the question of whether personalism in general, or even the idealistic type, is reconcilable with process thought.

Chateaubriant, Oradour, the Rue des Saussaies, Tulle, Dachau, and Auschwitz have all demonstrated to us that Evil is not an appearance, that knowing its causes does not dispel it, that it is not opposed to Good as a confused idea is to a clear one, that it is not the effect of passions which might be cured, of a fear which might be overcome, of a passing aberration which might be excused, of an ignorance which might be enlightened, that it can in no way be turned, brought back, reduced, and incorporated into idealistic humanism....

The neo-cons are not wrong to be idealistic.

Royce held the interesting view that the atoning deed must not only heal the community but it must leave the community better than it was before the rupture of disloyalty.10 This is a remnant of the idealistic attempt to prove that the world is really better because of sin.

Don't be idealistic.

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.

But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate between these two schools of thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of human nature.

While I do not share Professor Hartshorne's idealistic theory of knowledge my indebtedness to his analysis of the idea of God is great.

What is necessary, Niebuhr declares, is»... a critique of historical reason, a reason that will not seek the possibility of biblical history in the conditions of natural science or idealistic metaphysics, but rather in the answer to the distinctive question, how do we know historical events.»

So, in short, this «evidence» that proves Christianity isn't so much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection story.

Whether Dean has analyzed the «old» historicism accurately or not, what he calls the «new historicism» is not so much «new» as it is one - sided in its apparent identification of experience with idealistic creativity.

The romantic or idealistic love between a teenage boy and girl (frequently still to be found even in our modern sensualised world) may also be accompanied by a desire to show bodily affection - a desire filled with a tenderness and respect that operate as a curb, not only on lust if it seeks to assert itself, but also on bodily expressions of love which would not be true to the real existential relationship between the couple.

James's world might look like those of the subjective idealist or the idealistic Romantic because it was engendered by the imagination; but it was not, for unlike theirs it came without the assurance that it rested on external foundations.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

Sigh... if it weren't midnight, and I wasn't heading to off to bed knowing I'll be up every two hours all night long with my baby daughter, I might do a little more in terms of backing up my idealistic, Polly - Anna comments.

He is right when he says that materialism can not explain the rise of the good, that monistic and idealistic schemes can not explain the rise of evil, and that traditional concepts of God's power make God the despotic cause of all evil.

Though this activity remained obscure for Merleau - Ponty he at least found it valuable that Whitehead had not conceived it in terms of an idealistic passage from Nature to Spirit (N 155).

The transmission - theory not only avoids in this way multiplying miracles, but it puts itself in touch with general idealistic philosophy better than the production - theory does.