Sentences with phrase «of pragmatist»

At the core of my bleeding heart pumps the soul of a pragmatist.

I think I'm sort of a pragmatist slash liberal arts major under his sort of three - part thing.

Indeed, one characteristic of a pragmatist is the tendency to look forward with optimism.

Competing depictions of Mayor de Blasio — that he's an enemy of Bloomberg - style education reform and that he's more of a pragmatist than his anti-Bloomberg rhetoric suggests — have split education reformers into two camps: the fearful and the hopeful.

Philip, on the other hand, is slightly more of a pragmatist, and concerned with what the future holds for their children (ages 13 and 7), who know nothing of their double lives.

To that extent, Royce was as much a member of the pragmatist fellowship as either of the others.

Call it the personality of reality, if you're more of a pragmatist than a mystic.

Holcomb, who replaced Mike Pence and is seen as more of a pragmatist, appointed a female obstetrician - gynecologist to be his new health commissioner.

However, in other respects the position taken in this book differs substantially from that of the pragmatists.

A cabinet of pragmatists?

This brings us to a point somewhere in the middle — that of the Pragmatists.

Not exact matches

«Not surprisingly, then, some of the most successful and admired leaders — for example, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy — were above all pragmatists, willing to do what was necessary to achieve important objectives.»

Ever the pragmatists, women entrepreneurs (like their male counterparts) are eager to see a loosening of corporate taxes, which could open up increased venture spending.

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

Some may still harbor hopes that pragmatists in his administration could counterbalance the anti-trade China hawks, but former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, Trump's pick for the Secretary of State, should dispel such illusions.

Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I'm a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

«Stephen Harper is a consummate pragmatist,» says University of Lethbridge political scientist Geoffrey Hale.

«He is a pragmatist,» says Olivier J. Blanchard, the director of research at the International Monetary Fund who received his economic doctorate from M.I.T. in 1977, a year after Mr. Draghi.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

Back then, even for a pragmatist like James, Christianity was the kind of thing you had to take a stand on.

Another prominent liberal of an earlier generation, Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, Governor Mario Cuomo, a self described «progressive pragmatist,» also opposed casino gambling on the same grounds which Mayor LaGuardia did.

The Crisis of Modernityby augusto del nocetranslated by carlo lancellottimcgill - queens, 336 pages, $ 110 There is no greater ideologue, nor any more earnest in his self - delusion, than the pragmatist who thinks he is free of ideology.

Whereas, the term used by atheists, rationalists, pragmatists etc. infers hope or trust in probability / odds / or analysis of past history.

«Scattered throughout these essays are self - affixed labels such as «we anti-representationists,» «we Western liberal intellectuals,» «we partisans of solidarity,» «we pragmatists,» «we new fuzzies,» «us shepherds of Being,» «we enlightened post-Kuhnians,» «we anti-essentialists,» «we moderns,» «we humans,» «we bourgeois liberals,» «we Deweyans,» «we pragmatic Wittgensteinean therapists.»

The pragmatists hold that man is the measure of truth and goodness, that ultimately something is worthy because intelligent human beings want it.

Reflection or meditatio does not naturally recommend itself to us; as a matter of fact, since most of us are energetic «doers» and high pragmatists, reflection seems like a most unproductive pastime.

The pragmatists rightly emphasize the intelligent charting of consequences, but such concepts as satisfaction, adjustment, problem solving, growth, and harmonious interaction do not provide a sufficient basis for judgments of worth.

At many points the influence of John Dewey and other pragmatists will be evident, particularly their belief in democracy as a comprehensive way of life, their confidence in the wide relevance of the scientific spirit and methods, and their commitment to education as a moral enterprise.

I feel that Rorty is toying with the pragmatists here by not taking seriously their insistence on the importance of considering the practical effects of our ideas.

The pragmatist refuses to settle for any definitive way of describing ourselves and our fellow human beings because the world is still in the making.

The pragmatists correctly noted that the truth of interpretations is relative to common culture, shared goals, and mutually critical communication.

From this point of view, the power in the pragmatists» association of truth with warranted assertability in a self - correcting community of inquiry is obvious.

While admitting that irony seems to be inherently a private matter and of little public use, he nonetheless contends that we should develop a kind of «liberal irony» of the sort adopted by the pragmatists, particularly Dewey.

He goes on to say that «interesting philosophy» of the sort done by the pragmatists is really «a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half - formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.»

In modern philosophy of religion the I of the I - It relation steps ever more into the foreground as the «subject» of «religious feeling,» the «profiter from a pragmatist decision to believe.»

Whether we like to admit it or not, many of us pastors are pragmatists at heart.

For the pragmatist James the cross-cultural study of religion was essential because it presented human beings at the passionate peak of their shared experience.

Donald Trump is the product of the delusions and arrogance of the self - proclaimed pragmatists.

In this season of crisis in American religion, Jayber Crow is a consoling reminder of that faithful pragmatist in Jesus» sermon who builds his house on the rock so that it can withstand the storm and the flood.

Obama is a skilled candidate, and a determined liberal, but Obama could not have run as a post-partisan pragmatist if the media (or anyone) had successfully publicized his record of opposing extending legal protections to newborns that survived botched abortions and had lied about his votes.

The gullibility's pragmatists are relationally transcribed be they overtly religious and even of the mundanely inverted against anything religious... The ever hardening of bitterness offerings runs ever continuously upon the mainstreamed religious waters unending motions... For without believer's sanctifications who would be the beneficiaries witnesses..?

But he fails even to allude to the radical challenges to this which emerged in the 20th century from some Pragmatists and from Ludwig Wittgenstein, with their «collapse of the fact - value system», a view now prominent in contemporary philosophy of science.

All of it, except the pragmatists like Dewey.»

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

This is particularly the case with a myth which, with all its other disadvantages is outspokenly pragmatist and propagandist in character, and which ignores the question of truth to such an extent that it no longer exists even in untruth, but in a chilly no - man's - land between God and the devil.

You say that doesn't matter — again: that is because of YOUR central convictions (as a pragmatist... and an atheist?).

This vulgarly practical and relativistic theory of truth perhaps most closely approximates the current, popular sense of the word «pragmatic,» and one can find warrants for it in the writings of all the pragmatists, even including some of James».

In fact, their fundamental premise that all truth claims are socially constructed is not far removed from that of old - style liberal pragmatists.

Compiling representative anthologies of process philosophical writing, Douglas Browning in 1965 (POP) and J. R. Sibley and P. A. Y. Gunter in 1978 (PPBW) include Bergson, selections from the later evolutionary cosmology of C. S. Peirce, Samuel Alexander, and C. Lloyd Morgan along with Whitehead and several American pragmatists as constituting the main «process philosophers.»