Sentences with phrase «on modern ideas»

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The author is judging the decisions of people in 1874 - 1888 based on modern ideas and technology.

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Tim Ferriss's famous The 4 - Hour Workweek reinforced this idea, putting a modern spin on the perks of outsourcing.
But Mackey, who co-authored a bestselling book on the theme in 2013, has become the closest thing to a modern - day spokesman for an idea that, dare we say, has found its time.
The Apple (aapl) executive also commented on the First Amendment, which protects free speech — adding that at the time the founding fathers established this idea, there were no app developers, modern content creators, and other new forms of speech, notes 9 to 5 Mac.
Matcherino is steadily empowering modern FGC tournaments with additional revenue streams, peddling fresh ideas and unique deliverables to stream monsters with an insatiable appetite for hype entertainment on Twitch.
The idea behind it was that modern, everyday women who spend money on luxury brands (Chanel) still grocery shop.
Now that the author has so successfully catalogued many of the great ideas of Charlie Munger, I hope to read future works by Griffin that are focused on more controversial subjects at the margins of modern value investing.
Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.
«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.
Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»
Only since the last century have the Chinese started to reflect critically on Confucian thought, beginning with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 when many leading intellectuals introduced Western ideas of modern science and democracy into the country, knocking Confucianism off its altar.
Tiggy said, on December 16th, 2009 at 1:21 pm I don't think the modern idea of being a father was around when the New Testament was written.
Last year David Brooks offered a summary of the work while currently Ross Douhat and Damon Linker have reflected on whether or not Taylor's idea of the late - modern self as «buffered» describes our current predicament (Linker is unconvinced while Douhat seems open, but skeptical).
Until the modern period, Jewish peoplehood — the notion that the Jews are a distinct group based on both historical and biological criteria — was almost always embedded in the larger tapestry of Jewish ritual, ideas, texts, and history.
Well, it is true that Hannah was married to a man who, regardless of his modern ideas on theology and art, was a product of the old Germany.
Hans Urs von Balthasar once commented on atheism's perennial value to Christian faith: «The frightening phenomenon of modern atheism may, among other things, be a forcible measure of Providence to bring mankind, and especially Christendom, to a more adequate idea of God.»
A work of reference dealing with the modern Islamic world must inevitably touch on a number of highly controversial questions, some of them relating to conflicts between Muslims and others, some of them» the more delicate and important» to conflicts of interests and ideas within and between Muslim countries.
This idea of twoness above is not as vague as it sounds, for we can agree on a certain arbitrary model set containing what we call two things, our cow and rock if we wish, got by counting or other means, and declare that any other set has two things if it can be put in one - to - one correspondence (in modern terminology, bijective correspondence) with our model set.
Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.
The traditional spirit bases mutual toleration of historical differences on the idea that they are parts of the same truth, while the modern spirit of democratic toleration of differences is on the basis that though they are essentially different, reverence for each other as persons requires respect for each other's freedom to differ.
It is «blatantly non-Indian and recognizably an illegitimate child of colonialism», which introduced the idea of priority of State over Religion against the Indian concept of building the State on the basis of a «secondary allegiance» as in the case of Asoka and Akbar and, in modern India, Mahatma Gandhi.
The self - image of modern literature rested on an idea of progress that presumed the exchange of one style for another.
The more modern twist on this pagan idea is that probiotics may now even be «idolized» by some based on various articles and marketing that I've seen.
He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.
Having already addressed these first two issues, in the present chapter we shall focus on the questions raised by modern critics about the consonance of rational and scientific discourse with the idea of revelation.
Bentham has here laid out, quite clearly, a fundamental dispute of the modern age: the good life understood as the satisfaction of preferences and unfoiled desires on the one hand and the Platonic idea that justice is found only through the kind of self - restraint that looks beyond pleasure and pain on the other.
For in the earliest round of the debate, Griffin remarked on how forced, unnecessarily cautious, or simply unnatural are Ford's readings of relevant passages in Science and the Modern World and Religion in the Making — readings claiming that panpsychism is not truly found in either book, and that the appearance to the contrary is due to our reading into them ideas derived from the canonical portions of Process and Reality (REWM 194 - 201).
It is, on the other hand, the cornerstone of the systematic approach; for this last approach holds that any in - depth interpretation of Process and Reality must be conducted under the illumination provided, at the very least, by correlative in - depth interpretations of Science and the Modern World, Adventures of Ideas, and Modes of Thought.
Modern liberal ideas, on the other hand, always seem to languish and wither away.
What is needed is a Catholic theological interpretation of modern pluralistic democracy, one that insists on real space for the ideas and active contributions of religious traditions, while underscoring the value of respectful argument and even friendship among those who hold competing views.
Waring gods is an excellent idea, on the ohter hand and not that far from our modern idea of Big Bang!
I call this the task of covenant publicity, for which we can draw on the ancient traditions of covenant that underlie modern federalism as well as on the ideas of council, republic and ecclesia.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
I'd like to explore the idea that the way the Bible is being used in modern Christian circles, particularly among conservative evangelicals, may in fact border on idolatry.
Vegan mac and cheese hot, cold, with ketchup, with bbq sauce, with curry, with peas (peas are always good in mac), in a bowl, on a plate, with a fork, with a spoon... maybe your hands... However you dish it up, this one - pot vegan mac and cheese will only leave you feeling comforted, healthy, and full of plant - powered love in a much more modern version of the ultimate American classic (traditional American mac may have originated in New England church potlucks or from Thomas Jefferson bringing a recipe idea over.
Now many of us would think that's a great idea BUT it is a bit modern and revolutionary to ever occur to Wenger, based on the evidence of the last decade.
This seems incredibly harsh on Conte just months after he guided Chelsea to a convincing title win, but the nature of the modern game suggests the idea might not as crazy as it sounds, with managers» stays at their clubs proving shorter and shorter all the time.
i think that what's needed is for him to step aside thereby allowing another manager free reign to implement his «New» ideas on how to win the premiership and take us forward with transfers and every other conceivable tactical aspect for the «modern game».
HOKA ONE ONE was started on a wild idea by Frenchmen Nicolas Mermoud and Jean - Luc Diard, with the intent of making a modern trail running shoe for the rugged mountain races in the Alps, Pyrenees and Dolomites.
Wenger is clueless on modern tactics, has mad ideas on formation, picking the team and could not motivate a player if his life depended on it.
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-- Publishers Weekly «Alternative ideas on childbirth and childrearing for today's modern parent.»
In our modern culture of «hands - on» parenting, when is it a good idea to stay out of fights or arguments that take place between friends and siblings?
But with new ideas in mind, Leslie set off to create the just - launched brand Newlie, still designing modern diaper bags at a price point of around $ 100 but with the goal of having these bags last beyond the diaper stage with touches like insulated bottle pockets that easily convert to areas to stash toddler snacks, and add - ons like wet bags (for potty training and swim class).
America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.
In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.
And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.
The book, to be published by Biteback in October, is the West Dorset MPs take on the central themes and ideas of the modern Conservative party from the time of his old boss Margaret Thatcher to Theresa May's tenure in Number 10.
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