Sentences with phrase «open democratic cultures»

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Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic culture — has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.

Hence, in the current crisis of values in our contemporary culture, their approach provides a more open affirmation of the historical capability of democratic ideas and institutions («the American mind») to develop by uncovering their deepest roots.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

People who think their few years of experience, and access to human knowledge are enough to dismiss the thousands of years of culture and religious beliefs that accommodated development of morality and led man to this democratic point need to challenge their pride and open their mind.

He opened the broadcast with a blast at the culture of corruption in Albany that enabled Silver, the Democratic former Assembly speaker, and Skelos, the Republican ex-Senate majority leader.

The movie, which opens Friday but made its Houston debut Saturday night as part of a day - long community event celebrating the film sponsored by the Houston Museum of African American Culture that also included a welcome from Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, actually has its start in «Captain America: Civil War» two years ago.

In the opening scenes of THE RUNNER the oil slick from the 2010 BP spill is seen spreading over the gulf coast, over the wild life, crippling the fishermen, the local culture, and the economy; by the end of the film, the contamination will have infiltrated the landscape, political and personal, of the man at the center of the fight: a New Orleans politician — Democratic Representative Colin Pryce played by Oscar winner Nicolas Cage.

It's Bushwick Open Studios this weekend, which means the most democratic of all New York art events will inevitably be paired with lots local culture.

Committed to a democratic practice of open source web culture, the artist is known for thoughts like these: