Sentences with phrase «of social idealism»

In the process of relentlessly investigating our cultural history, McElheny has accumulated unique insights and an ability to intuitively deconstruct heightened moments of social idealism.

All that remains is the impulse of social idealism in politics [«Religion in the Sixties,» Social Research (Autumn 1971), pp. 459 - 60].

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This inspiring book follows Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, and how he turned $ 25 into over 250 schools by combining a for - profit business approach with social sector idealism for an idea known as «For - Purpose.»

Similarly, a general concern for «social justice,» abstractly entertained as an ideal, but falling short of an embodied concern for particular persons, is a truncated idealism.

In this sense, one of the greatest present dangers to responsible moral discourse in social ethics is, I think, «moralism» and unrestrained idealism, which frequently operate to overcome these harsh realities I have described by attacking them — or worse, by simply ignoring them.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

He said, «In my parish duties I found that the simple idealism into which the classical faith had evaporated was as irrelevant to the crises of personal life as it was to the complex social issues of an industrial city.»

According to Niebuhr, naturalism loses the self by reducing it to the «mechanical proportions» of nature; idealism loses the self in the abstract universalities of mind; romanticism loses the self to the larger social collective.

Israel, we may say, would have granted the supremacy of the invisible church, the custodian of the nation's best social achievements and highest idealism; but the visible church was too fallibly human to be trusted with so high a responsibility.

Some forms of the Christian attack on the social problem have expressed just such a taut idealism.

Hence the supreme manifestation of religion was to be found not in personal ethics or in social idealism but in the cultus regarded as an end in itself.

For Teilhard, the Christian church as (ideally) a universal community of human / divine love and shared idealism is the prototype of the movement of humanity as a whole toward a superhuman social reality organized around Christ / Omega as the ultimate attracting and unifying principle.

Those of us who shared the idealism of John Kennedy saw the ugly head of racism begin to rip the social fiber of this country apart.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

But Underwood found his spiritual authority more in the academic ideology of rationalism than in the dark mystery of a crucified Messiah; his final vision is a rather flat social idealism in which the academic world is adulated.

First and last he always qualified the idealism in another way: that the commonwealth of God is the very life and word of the Lord Jesus, and that it must be struggled for even though it can not be fully attained: «We shall never have a perfect social life, yet we must seek it with faith.

Its supporters insist that it wants to transform Labour into an outward - looking, mass campaigning party that can tap the energy and idealism of social movements and pressure groups to promote a more equal and socially just society.

«Another lesson is that idealism matters,» said Weitz, continuing, «A small group of cooperating individuals can, over time, change the social and environmental context for all and for the better.»

8:15 am — TCM — Meet John Doe Not one of Frank Capra's best takes on social idealism, but it definitely has its moments — and Barbara Stanwyck, what more do you really need?

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

Inspired by the idealism of that decade, she believes education is the key to resolving economic and social disparities.

If that ethos is compared with today, everyone is «told» they are an artist by social engineers whose priority, rather than the advance of artworks, is the increasing dominance of a political cause, (excessive Liberalism), serving the optimistic idealism of «equality».

At the same time, we liked the alternative title, «Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th - Century American Art», because it broadens the discussion, expanding it from matters of connoisseurship, patronage, and class to larger stories relating to egalitarianism and education, social transformation and conflict, and idealism and reality.

With ideological utopias often referred to as islands of idealism, Mamou is creating forced utopias through material explorations; thereby highlighting the arbitrary nature of boundaries, and social constructs that exist within them.

Using a figurative style and imagery of African Americans in urban, suburban, and interior settings, Marshall's work has often addressed social issues stemming from the Civil Rights movement, evoking the nostalgia and idealism of that era.

This represents another challenge for Hippie Modernism: disentangling utopia from connotations of idealism that stem from privilege and social homogeneity.

The»60s, a decade of radical change in America, devolved from its beginnings and the national idealism of the Kennedy era into a sort of cultural madness that, by the end of the decade, saw three heartbreaking political assassinations, massive student unrest, a bevy of seemingly intractable social problems and the Vietnam War.

The intense Ab - Ex bursts of psychic joy or pain may have been a refreshing change from the discredited social idealism and oppressive realities of the previous two decades.

He has that rare combination of idealism and realism that makes him effective at promoting positive social change.