Sentences with phrase «not pragmatism»

• The exempting of CDOs from all regulatory scrutiny thanks to the passage of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was another triumph of not pragmatism but ideology.

Hear these phrases, know them for what they are - not logic, not good advice, not pragmatism: know if for the spirit sucking, abjectly spirit snatching, energy depleting weapons of words they are.

Not exact matches

But the difference may be about pragmatism, not priorities.

Pragmatism doesn't sell.

We do not believe politicians as we used to, we do not believe the media, and whereas we believe each other» Thanking you Your's sincerely M.S.MOHAMED ANSARI Pragmatism has now fallen foul of the continuing power of the press.

There is a lot of pressure to bow to the great god «pragmatism,» and kudos to anyone who will not compromise his or her beliefs.

@JohnQuest: I do not see this pragmatism.

You can grow businesses and political programs with pragmatism, but you can not grow a church.

While I would not identify my position with the extremes of pragmatism, it is, nonetheless, a healthy reminder that religious truth, whatever may be the case with other kinds of truth, involves issues of value, of consequences, of the quality of lived existence.

Weigel must either believe that some propositions are properly subjects for moral judgment, and others not (this truly is a form of Gnosticism), or that some propositions are more easily held and accepted by current society, and that the Church as a matter of pragmatism ought to prioritize low - hanging fruit.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

One of these is historicism, «the view that all thought is essentially related to and can not transcend its own time» (p. 40) Another is pragmatism, fostered by John Dewey and others, which permits analysis of the present without regard to the past.

In the Introduction editors Tan and Whalen - Bridge acknowledge their debt to Philosopher Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007), whose germinal work had revived John Dewey (1859 - 1952) and his pragmatism as a contribution not only to education, but in governance as well in his social democracy.

The Gospel is not a game show, and pragmatism at all costs costs us much indeed --- more than just a few hundred thousand dollars in prizes.

As William James was fond of saying, «There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere — no difference in abstract truth that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact» (Pragmatism, pp. 49f).

This is, however, a rather pragmatic approach to truth — not that I'm against pragmatism.

Another is that Tocqueville really does understand ourselves better than we understand ourselves, showing us that our pragmatism and progressivism aren't really so much alien intrusions but indigenous expressions of the American, democratic mind.

Upon closer examination I think many will have to agree that actually many views such as how high or low taxes should be, etc. are not articles of faith by any means and as such require flexibility and pragmatism.

Religious pragmatism may not be inspirational but it has a long and useful history.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

The notion that politicians must not permit their religious sensibilities to affect political decision - making has reduced political dialogue to a seminar on pragmatism.

It is time we said to our leaders that while we don't expect to elect any saints to public office, we have had more than enough of political pragmatism rooted in nothing but the desire to win the next election.

Each of these rather different versions of pragmatism varied from the rest and, often as not, actually came into logical conflict with some of them.

And of course this holds not just for pragmatism but for process philosophy as well.

In a classic paper of 1908, the then prominent and influential Johns Hopkins University philosopher Arthur O. Lovejoy gave reign to his not inconsiderable annoyance with pragmatism.1 «What,» he asked, «is it that those pesky pragmatists want anyway?»

In scanning this complex and disunified scene Lovejoy concluded that pragmatism just is not a coherent position in philosophy.

That's not to say that Solzhenitsyn wouldn't still hear, quite accurately, the HOWL OF EXISTENTIALISM just beneath their happy - talk pragmatism.

I do not know whether he would have done this or not, since I believe that with his pragmatism he might have accommodated relativity physics without altering his epistemology, though I can not go into the question here.16 What seems to me clear is that the philosophical issues underlying Hartshorne's criticisms of Peirce can not be settled by theories of physics or the mathematics of continuity.

Translated into social theory by John Dewey and Horace Kallen (James's student), poetry by Wallace Stevens (another James student), social science by George Herbert Mead, semiotics by Charles Morris (a Mead student), and jurisprudence by Oliver Wendell Holmes — not to mention the philosophy of F. C. S. Schiller, Sidney Hook (a Dewey student), C. I. Lewis, W. V. O. Quine (a student of Lewis), and many others up to and beyond Richard Rorty — pragmatism swept through the universities.

He did not want Absolute pragmatism to lapse into the usual caricature of idealism, which made ideas into nothing more than objects of idle contemplation; ideas always contain, at their core, an intention to act.

Had James not cast Royce so thoroughly into his shadow — had American philosophy followed the path of a thinker with his eye on the Absolute rather than that of the shrewder social pragmatism of Dewey — the intellectual history of twentieth - century America might have been different.

This and similar definitions of «ethics» which leave the matter in the simple world of pragmatism and «science» (whatever she means by that) we still have language which can not automatically release us from the issue of eugenics.

Thus empirical process theology has consistently allied itself with pragmatism; truth has to do with the particular and the pragmatic, not with that which is general and supposedly necessary.

I don't want my president to «fall back on faith» for the most important decisions, I want my president to fall back on facts, pragmatism and the obvious morality that no religion can claim a monopoly on.

Whether Wenger needs to go or not, pragmatism is the most important thing in sport: making the best out of your situation.

Still, I can't decide if the non-response is hubris or pragmatism.

Mou is the most pragmatism football manager ever, and he's not gonna change.

This might be a sudden flowering of architectural patriotism; it might be the realisation that miserable pragmatism isn't going to shift 54,000 tickets.

There is a reason for that pragmatism, it protects the club from a poisonous situation that doesn't help anyone.

But not only is Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis back, he is strolling through these meetings with that familiar, distinct air of confidence and pragmatism that have marked his 15 Bengals seasons.

His cosmopolitan, free - flowing approach to the game is what made me a soccer fan, even if I didn't realize it at the time, and even if I'd trade it now for the petty pragmatism of a Mourinho if results improved.

And when I saw his cameo performance on Sunday I sadly didn't feel the same pang of sadness that I did the week before and sadly, the week before that because the more and more I start to think about the reality of the situation, the more that pragmatism kicks in for my mind.

Howe's belief in attacking does not preclude pragmatism and team spirit remains strong among his players.

The Special One has not been part of «the humble people» since he left Porto 14 years ago but I'll omit the lack of self awareness for now since it's not relevant to my argument: Mourinho's pragmatism needs to evolve in order to survive favorably in history.

And he was not averse to pragmatism: Arteta's first season he moved him to a Pirlo-esque pivote role and using Song to make through passes he got us playing a simpler brand of football that used RVP's strength to get us a series of 2 - 0 and 2 - 1 and 1 - 0 towards CL football.

This new pragmatism doesn't mean there's no lingering guilt.

With contradictory takes, she must decide whether to listen to the mischievous Earl of Leicester (John Light), the voice of the Ken Clarke - like Lord Talbot (Alan Williams), who quips to ripples of approval from the Islington audience that «a majority does not prove something is right», or the ruthless pragmatism of Lord Burleigh.

This idea is not rooted in idealism but in pragmatism, and it serves national interests.

This isn't «visionary pragmatism» — it's just blind ideology.

1.30 pm ToryDiary: «Today's vote certainly points to a welcome degree of pragmatism among many of the delegates (memorably, one of the rebel speakers actually criticised the idea that policies should be pragmatic) but it is not final proof that the Lib Dems are willing to make all of the tough decisions involved in being in government.»