It is only insofar as a tradition claims universal relevance that its exclusion of the insights of
others is problematic in terms of its own norms.
Holding up in a high school, you rescue survivors of whom some are helpful and
others are problematic so that you have to prevent people from killing each other or yourself.
It's clear that anyone deemed as
other is problematic, especially those with darker complexions.
Not exact matches
For those who have always
been taught that swearing
is a moral issue indicating some sort of personal fault, this study (and
others like it attesting to the fact that swearing doesn't seem linked with anything too
problematic) should
be a nudge to reconsider.
(Interestingly,
other science shows something similar about stress — too little can
be as
problematic as too much.
Plus, L.A.
was already a major tourist hub — unlike
other recent hosts whose isolation has proven
problematic for drawing crowds and maintaining them once the Games
are over.
The Barclays analysts said: «It does not seem likely to us, given the power of Facebook and Google and a whole range of
other sources of news, that the CMA or Ofcom will find this combination to
be problematic.
The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents»
problematic schedules, and that they may
be more likely than
other children to smoke and drink when they
're older.»
While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while
others require disclosure — Uber
is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs,
are problematic at this time.
Measures of inequality in the late 18th century
are problematic, but the best scholarly estimates indicate that colonial U.S. had lower Gini coefficients than in
other countries with measures of inequality.
Other measures of market participation have
been equally
problematic.
All of this
is problematic for investors and portfolio managers, even as it
is advantageous for governments and
other borrowers.
He says, «It
's problematic because it
's more frustrating, but on the
other hand you
're given more opportunities.»
And then when you think about Reinhart and Rogoff's work, if you've read all the white papers that they've written prior to writing the book, one of the
other conclusions that they draw
is when debt gets to
be about 100 % GDP it becomes
problematic.
Gannett's hopes for a quick acquisition of Tribune Publishing, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and a half dozen
other regional newspapers,
are looking increasingly
problematic.
Some changes, like these and the simplified home office tax deduction, will
be a benefit to many businesses, while
others may
be problematic.
If USAA's phone - based service
is problematic for you, consider
other lenders with full online capabilities or more brick - and - mortar locations.
but in attempting to make that large number seem
problematic, you actually both defeated your
other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you
were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.
They have also
been influenced by the much - contested argument of Lynn White, Jr., and
others that the classical Western theological tradition has proved ecologically
problematic.
On the
other hand, there
is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it
is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it
is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery
is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it
is wrong for him to consider that his
problematic is canonized by this transcendence.
Others have
been more
problematic.
On the
other hand, finding a unitary principle for the manifold of discreet entities, which includes human experience,
is made
problematic by a denial of divine relativity because the relative nature of God did at least that unify the world into an ordered and organic whole.
That simply
is not happening with
other, also
problematic sins.
Thus, using the vagueness of the past self as a test case, we can also see that there
is a difference of «distinctness» in the way the datum self
is given as opposed to
other selves.43 Yet, literal participation of the one in the
other is maintained, for Hartshorne, since the present self must at least literally participate in its own past self — otherwise, personal identity
is problematic, and this threatens personalism with precisely the sort of solipsism Hartshorne indicated from the beginning.
Other writers — e.g., Virginia Mollenkott and Paul Jewett — admit that various biblical texts do inculcate male domination, but that such «problem texts» (problematic only to feminists, note) should be ignored in favor of the implicit thrust of other, egalitarian texts such as Galatians
Other writers — e.g., Virginia Mollenkott and Paul Jewett — admit that various biblical texts do inculcate male domination, but that such «problem texts» (
problematic only to feminists, note) should
be ignored in favor of the implicit thrust of
other, egalitarian texts such as Galatians
other, egalitarian texts such as Galatians 3:28.
It
is an integral aspect of our creatureliness, and its
problematic, as with every
other dimension of our «finite freedom in anxious self - awareness» (Tillich), should elicit foremost in the disciples of Christ compassion: com - passion, Mitleid — that
is, the with - suffering of those who share, and recognize that they share, the same possibilities and ambiguities as they find in
others, albeit perhaps in different configurations.
Childress argued that war
is fundamentally morally
problematic, as the killing in war goes against the prima facie duty of benevolence, which rules out killing or inflicting harm on
other persons: «[B] ecause it
is prima facie wrong to injure or kill
others, such acts demand justification.»
Yet the hour that he has affirmed as history in this sense
is none
other than that of Hitler and the Nazis, «the very same hour whose
problematics in its most inhuman manifestation led him astray.»
Nick Spencer, research director of the Theos think tank and author of The Evolution of the West (SPCK) argues that it
is, and that it
is a mistake to take the universalist message of the gospel — the good news
is for everyone — as invalidation of all identifiers
other than
being a Christian: «I think that
's problematic because it takes the universalist notion of Christianity without also taking the incarnational notion of Christianity which
is local and which does have specific identities.
In and beyond all these and countless
other problematic states of the human spirit, along with their opposites, there
are the many kinds and degrees of inequality that
are present in all relationships.
[4] Religious historian James Noel points out the
problematics inherent in the contradictory worldviews upon which New Thought
is based: philosophical non-dualism on the one hand, and the dualism of the Judeo - Christian biblical tradition on the
other.
If all such historical conditions, on the
other hand, can
be systematically ignored as irrelevant, it becomes highly
problematic on what grounds we award the title of Christ to Jesus and yet continue to withhold it from Socrates or from Gautama.
What makes this and parallel statements in
other writings
problematic is that some of the very concepts that Hartshorne classifies as «literal»
are elsewhere implied to
be matters of degree rather than of all or none and
are even said to
be «analogical» when applied to God.
The
other part of the assertion, which construes «the experience of God» subjectively, as asserting God's own experience of
others as well as of self,
is hardly less
problematic.
Besides, if the role
was so objectionable, why did it take the tenor so long to notice, and why weren't some of the
other roles he sang equally
problematic?
I chatted with someone the
other day on why I thought that Catholicism - Protestantism
were problematic.
In challenging that misconstruction of Jewish history and theology, along with several
other deeply
problematic aspects of Dabru Emet, Prof. Levenson did a great service to furthering open discussion on a topic that
is far from resolved in the minds of most rabbis and Jewish thinkers, Prof. Novak's «normative text for Jews» notwithstanding.
It seemed that too many of the archaeological arguments advanced in support of the Bible story
were convincing only to those who wanted to
be convinced, and the «archaeological solutions» to
problematic historical questions tended to sidetrack the search for
other possible solutions.
Kim has
been led to a dead end because, correctly seeing that a nonreductive materialism
is impossible, 8 he believes that there
are only three
other options, all of which
are extremely
problematic: reductive materialism, which reduces the psychological to the physical (as conventionally understood); eliminative materialism, which, realizing that reduction
is impossible, excludes the psychological from its ontology; and ontological dualism, which rejects physicalism altogether.
Even as a public token of religious identity it
is problematic when most people
are unable to explain it properly even to themselves, let alone to
others.
On the
other hand, memories
are short, as witness a young author who apparently sees nothing terribly
problematic in advocating what might aptly
be described as national socialism or socialist nationalism, albeit with benign intentions.
Such a statement
is problematic, at least inasmuch as it
is incompatible with the concept of God as primordial and consequent natures that appears at
other places in Process and Reality, particularly in the last part of the book.
In his letter of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that
other selves
are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to
be able to make sense out of the idea of a literal participation in
other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument
is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «
is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition
is «always
problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.»
I've spent the evening — well, what
was left of it after dinner and baths and stories and the rosary and people wanting to keep their lights on after lights out and
other people wanting to take showers upstairs at the same time that the dishes
were being washed downstairs, which
is problematic in an old house — scrolling through the website of the Jennmaur Gallery, which
To this reviewer it seems that chapter four
is more
problematic than the
others.
Thus, the conflict between considerations of utility on the one hand and justice on the
other appears to
be as
problematic on the divine level as it
is on the human.
He said: «It would only
be problematic to them if the Church of England thought it
was a bad idea for them to
be supporting
other people advancing the gospel.
But I realize the lids
are still plastic and therefore could have
other problematic chemicals, even though no BPA.
I remember liking them, but not quite as much as
other bars available in the US because of their sticky texture (
problematic when eating them on a 16 hour Amtrak, for example, when you
're doing everything in your power * not * to use to disgusting train bathroom!).
It
's worth remembering, both with the Tigers and with basically every
other major deal we
're talking about here, that teams signed these contracts knowing that eventually, they'd
be problematic.