Sentences with phrase «on idealistic»

Please do not continue to accept stakeholders» perspectives without balancing their claims, which are based on projections of huge financial gains for the renewable energy entrepreneurs and investors or on idealistic environmentalists, against solid scientific research (governmental, academic and independent consultants in Ontario, Canada and internationally).

Caitlin Flanagan reported on idealistic college students» mindset and process for choosing anodyne entertainment.

Along with the more recent documentary Orange (Tapuz, 98), Berlin - Jerusalem focuses in part on the idealistic hopes of Zionist settlers in Palestine that agricultural work would foster a new, healthier, stronger, more equitable Jewish society.

I feel you on the idealistic expectations for maternity leave.

Michael Gottesman, deputy director for intramural research at the National Institutes of Health, points to one possible effect of the drug industry's problems on idealistic young life scientists.

During the course of the decade the militancy of its rhetoric rose as its mass appeal correlatively declined but as is usual in the history of American socialism it was based far more on idealistic zeal than on class interest.

It seems to me that the present - day attack on metaphysics is nothing more than an attack on idealistic constructions of this type, after the fashion (say) of Hegel or Bradley.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

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

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

«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.

Ivy league schools like Harvard and Yale are the holy grail for young, idealistic students on their way into the real world.

Elon Musk is using his companies to pursue his personal idealistic goals: He wants to move the world to renewable energy, and he wants to establish a colony on Mars to preserve the human species.

Khosrowshahi told Guthrie that he believes «early on, these technology companies were fairly idealistic, for the right reasons,» but acknowledged that things have changed and added later that he would «welcome regulation.»

His opening statement mentions that «Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company» focused on connecting people.

Looking back on the failures of the Obama administration's Israeli - Palestinian peace efforts, he suggested that former Secretary of State John Kerry may have been too idealistic in pursuing talks that collapsed in 2014.

When Obama landed on Chicago's South Side in 1985 as an idealistic 23 - year - old, eager to start work as a community organizer, he was already a political liberal.

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.

It was the beginning of the Olympic Games, so I was still basking in the idealistic glow of the opening ceremonies, impressed by the commitment and talent of the most gifted competitors in the world, and awed by the staggering feats of athleticism that appeared on my TV screen each night.

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.

The younger generation is too realistic and idealistic to be taken in by barbarism, even on the technological level.

For no matter how hard I try, however eloquent, dynamic, or (at desperate moments) guilt - inducing I may be on Friday afternoon, on Monday morning my arguments have fallen flat and sunk into the muck, idealistic words overwhelmed by a depressingly powerful reality: Sunday Mass at the parish.

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

14 In philosophy the empirical and naturalistic school (John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer) as well as the idealistic (Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet) focused their attention on the problems of the nature and development of society.

On this side of the ocean, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman blamed «a few uninformed and overly idealistic religious leaders.»

On the contrary, the first option may be too optimistic and therefore too idealistic in assuming that security can be established and perpetuated by military domination without provoking uncontrollable resentment or bankrupting the dominating state.

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.

At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

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.

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.

They exposed to me the fact that I was, like most Marxists they had known at home, merely against something — something conveniently labeled conventional, bourgeois, capitalist, unhistorical or idealistic thinking — but that neither I nor the communists had yet fully confronted the implications of trying to organize personal or social life on a Marxist basis.

In conclusion, there is a saying of Jesus which perhaps can show how little it is possible to seek for an ethic of Jesus in the sense of an idealistic doctrine of duties and virtues, or in the sense of an ethic of goods or values; how, on the contrary, the responsibility for all concrete moral decisions is thrust upon man, and these decisions are bound up with the one Either - Or, obedience or disobedience.

This healthcare law, while idealistic and good looking on paper, will be a disaster!!

Between the idealistic philosopher and the religious man there is undoubtedly a deep rift; but it is no different from that which appears in ourselves on the eve of a crisis, when we are mentally divided, and yet very close to inner unity and harmony.

The sciences of nature know nothing of spiritual presences, and on the whole hold no practical commerce whatever with the idealistic conceptions towards which general philosophy inclines.

The results, slow or sudden, or great or small, of the combined optimism and expectancy, the regenerative phenomena which ensue on the abandonment of effort, remain firm facts of human nature, no matter whether we adopt a theistic, a pantheistic - idealistic, or a medical - materialistic view of their ultimate causal explanation.

I was called idealistic, perfectionistic, and humanistic (not relying on God for my strength.)

On occasion Reinhold Niebuhr allowed that Rauschenbusch was more prophetic and a bit less idealistic than the movement, but he never pressed the point, and he blasted both Rauschenbusch and the movement repeatedly.

I had these idealistic thoughts of cooking in the kitchen with Hunter, while he slept peacefully in the k» tan carrier, with a smile on his angelic face.

«INFPs are introspective, private, creative and highly idealistic individuals that have a constant desire to be on a meaningful path.

An invented subplot centers on Harlan's idealistic young clerk, who discovers the precedent that leads to the Court's overturning Ali's conviction.

A focus on the Europa League would ordinary constitute an idealistic, romantic attempt to «win a trophy» — but it should now be seen as a pragmatic choice for a team such as Liverpool or Tottenham.

In real life of course they do — they just try to make us believe they are goody - goody, idealistic, politically correct little angels who would never wish any bad luck on any of our rivals, want all matches to be played in perfect weather with perfect referees making perfect decisions and everyone in each team smiling happily at their counterpart in the opposing team and helping them up the poor things fall down.

Whether you agree or sympathise with their reasons for doing so the fact is that Wenger, the idealistic bastard he is, had hoped they would stick around and in the process stick two fingers up at the rest of the football world by winning the biggest prizes on offer.

The ability of this club to ride out what I would label The Infinite Years of football in England — where the virtually infinite money of clubs like Manchester City and Chelsea have created a marketplace with no rules, boundaries or logic — depends on it retaining its idealistic philosphy in places like Asia, Africa, Australia and the US.

I really admire your steadfastness to your ideolgy on what a football fan, and more importantly, an Arsenal fan should be, it is definitely to be commended but sometimes, to me, it seems to be to idealistic, too black and white at times and maybe kel has a small point that you use and miss - use information to further your own point at times.

Keith on the other hand is much more idealistic.

If a woman gives up on a big paycheck at some corporate job because she'd rather follow her dreams and become an artist, or because she'd rather do something more idealistic and save the world, does that make her a non-feminist?

I am tired of women being portrayed as objects to be saluted and admired or shunned and shamed depending on whether they measure up to societies idealistic standards.