Sentences with phrase «other than an ideology»

Television is an amalgam of technology, power, and values which is far too resistant to being «used» by any ideology other than the ideology which formed it and which it is designed to maintain: the technological era.

Not exact matches

Religion is responsible for more mass murder than any other ideology in human history.
Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).
Even as the formalized creed of a society, the ideology is the basis of praxis — it serves as a principle which calls on individual sacrifice on behalf of something other and greater than oneself.
And that is a purely faith based ideology, no more or less so than Christianity or any other of the world's religions.
Apparently you are not that different in spreading your God-less ideology than any other religion.
You are no better than any other religion or belief or political ideology shoving its ideas down everyone's throats.
Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).
Are you seriously trying to argue that Christianity spread differently than any other ideology?
Indeed, a faith in revelation may release our desire to know and reinforce the spirit of criticism in a much more radical fashion than rationalism, scientism, or adherence to other ideologies would by themselves allow.
The doctors who committed these crimes had embraced the eugenicist ideology that views some lives as of lower «quality» and, hence, lower value than others.
Truth is people like Obama have done more harm to Islam than any other living being with their methods and ideology.
Perhaps it may be right to say, that in general the politically conscious educated middle class of India were guided more by the Liberal and Marxian ideologies than the Gandhian or other versions of reformed Hindu thought.
Only in this connection can we understand how a society that seems, if one considers its articulate and self - conscious classes, so intensely ideological can show such low rates of political and ideological knowledge and involvement when compared with other modern societies.15 The gap between intellectuals and masses, between conscious ideology and popular feeling, is probably greater than in most Western countries.
Do symbols really reveal anything other than our own subjective or social longings or ideologies?
Fourth, we must also encourage the development of ongoing cadres of persons within the academic community whose own deepest commitments are decisively other than its meritocratic and rationalistic ideology.
Yet its alienation from other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.
The funny thing is that the 25 states that are refusing to uphold Obamacare would receive federal funds to do so, which means they're hurting their own people for no other reason than their spite and ideology.
How they picked up stray pieces of vicious rhetoric and tortured logic along to way to shield themselves from idea that they could possibly be anything other than a Good Person with the purest of ideologies.
In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.
On the other, many of those who provide such services are motivated by ideology more than economics, and they adjust their fees to accommodate others who share their worldview.
It's far more associated with economy rather than government, while many of the other words listed above are very much associated with government ideology.
Many people make their voting decision on other factors than just which party ideology aligns most with their own.
In its most absolute form — ideology — it has killed more people than any other human creation.
And on the other hand, the post-1688 sense that the Williamite and then Hanoverian State, its Empire, and that Empire's capitalist ideology were somehow less than fully legitimate was passed down among Catholics, High Churchmen (and thus first Methodists and then also Anglo - Catholics), Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers and others, contributing significantly to the creation of the American Republic, to the abolition of the slave trade, to the extension of the franchise, to the emergence of the Labour Movement, and to the opposition to the Boer and First World Wars.
Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.
So what is Polly suggesting here other than the continuation of the very phenomenon that has so repulsed so many of those who have flocked to join the party and support Corbyn ie that Labour is too close to Tory ideology.
«This has nothing to do with ideology, nothing to do with personalities, nothing to do with anything other than the fact that we're constantly looking for clients, and they're only active part of the year,» Cunningham told me during a brief phone interview last week.
However, political conservatives are slightly more likely than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to others.
There is some evidence by other scholars that even though there's overall stability, there has been some divergence, particularly in the confidence measure, between people who identify with one part or ideology than another.
For instance, the rise of the Web in the early 1990s took place without leaders, ideology, advertising, commerce, or anything else other than a positive sensibility shared by millions of people.
What separates Landa from other villainous Nazis in film is how his bad behaviour is fueled more by self - preservation than a sincere belief in the Nazi ideology.
It's a crisis of ego, fuelled by no other ideology than greed.
However, other people who have campaigned for you may have done so because they realize that for «our family», which is much larger than America, dismemberments and forced artificial separations (be it in nationality, citizenship, religion, gender, race, sexuality, identity or ideology) have caused enough damage and trauma already.
This is characteristic of the global education ideology, which seems to hold America to far higher standards for human rights than it does other nations.
Unless North Carolina requires the same level of accountability and transparency from the private and religious schools that receive vouchers as it requires from other schools that receive public money, it is making education policy on hunches and ideology rather than real data.
While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.
Reflecting the L'art pour l'art ideology, his goal was to give irrefutable proof that art form is different than what we find in all other objects.
The staged studio shots wryly and candidly ape current quasi-feminist ideologies of being able to be «political» via any trajectory other than their assigned gender.
If the context behind the arguments is not included, the public just sees dispute, and can simply lump a science fight with those over abortion, gun rights, energy policy and other issues framed by ideology or values as much as (or more than) data.
And I think that your constant focus on others «political ideology» tells us more about your own motives than you imagine.
On the other hand, if what yah * REALLY * like is photos of leaky Siberian steam - pipes accompanied by moronic ideology - first denialist drivel... than the above links ain't gonna satisfy yah!
Not recognising their own perspective as thus formed «ideologically», they see only other people and their arguments in terms of blind and arbitrary «ideology», rather than arguments and ideas that might give rise to a different perspective on the same issue.
The study, while only covering newspapers and only looking at two short time periods, shows that American climate denial is unique and more prevalent than in other countries, and that ideology does influence how the topic is covered.
Given how climate science seems only to exist to justify statist public policy, this is ideology - by - other - means than it is science.
Since the Law Society has already voted to extend its EDI recommendations to «other equality - seeking groups» without bothering with the pretense of requiring evidence of discrimination, or without even defining those groups, we might be forgiven for thinking that we are dealing more with ideology than with the solving of actual problems.
Perhaps more than any other advocate in practice, Tom represents the complete spectrum of litigants before the Court; his work is not associated with any particular perspective or ideology.
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