Sentences with phrase «political self interests»

Humans must adapt either way, and the question should be — do we we want to do it consensually or do we instead wish to hand off $ trillions of wealth and lots of individual liberty to massive political self interests which can, without question, be correctly referred to as the Environmental Industrial Complex?

Donohue says lawmakers put «their own political self interest» ahead of the retirement security of future state workers, and he says the union is considering backing primary challengers to key incumbent legislators.

Not exact matches

Our executives are too often silent on political issues, even when it's in their self - interest to speak up.

Business self - interest is treated with the same outrage as unchecked political power for taking the steps they need to take to be profitable.

People will buy Bitcoin for the financial gains, and most won't realize they are voting with their wallets and self - interest to build a world based on peace and cooperation, even if that conflicts with their own political ideals.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

The conclusion just reached suggests that supposedly value - free political science has had value commitments in spite of itself, at least to the extent that it affirms happiness to be a private matter.5 In addition, I am persuaded that political science explicitly based upon a preferential view of self - interest always implicitly invokes an objective criterion of happiness.

Because it appropriated the preferential view of self - interest, «value - free» political science has become a servant of the same master.

2 There is an ancient debate regarding whether all human action (and, therefore, all political action) is solely in pursuit of self - interest.

But there is a systematic reason why political theories with a preferential view of self - interest have taken politics to be wholly an instrumental activity.

The recommendations of the Club of Rome were heavily criticized by business interests who had most to lose, but their claims served only to illustrate how much political and economic ideology is driven by self - interest.

Frank, one assumes, would quarrel with this way of putting his argument, but he offers no alternative explanation for how millions of middle Americans are so blind to their real interests and so self - destructive in their political behavior.

In an interesting chapter on the Marxian theme of religion as the «opiate of the people», Jose Miguez Bonino welcomes the criticism «as a valid warning against the self - deception and confusion which so easily creep into a political programme of any sort when it is clothed in religious language».

Its hard - won freedom to express and advocate competing and conflicting ideologies and class, group, and political party interests was supposed to sustain the political diversity necessary for self - government in a complex society.

On the face of it, these points seem as relevant to America's current travails as they were to Rome's fall and certainly more so than either the utopianism of much modern political theory, or its opposite: a frankly self - interested perspective concerned only with national interests and national security.

As realistic as any moral realist in political and international affairs, Augustine yet insisted that an inordinate self - interest leads to self - destruction, as the evidence clearly shows.

THE PEOPLE»S RESPONSIBILITY By grounding foreign policy analysis in wider considerations of political philosophy in his «The Morality of Self - Interest» (June / July 2010), David P. Goldman has performed a valuable service, but his treatment of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars raises further questions.

Some economists, of course, see every activity as a marketplace transaction — dating and marriage, political behavior and even religious commitment can be viewed as the pursuing of maximal self - interest.

A tradition of local governance that resists both a supine dependence on Washington, D.C. or dominance by remote corporate interests; a patriotism that believes in the noble possibilities of the American experiment; vibrant churches and church leaders who remind us that life is more than our economic or political self - interest» it's not surprising that Lauck finds these features of Dakota life attractive.

Consensus - oriented political leaders, advocates of economic modernization, and professional social scientists have all argued, in one way or another, that economic self - interest does — and should — matter most in politics.

To dislodge the power of collective self - interest requires a Christian realism that through political conflict serves to check group egoism.

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

People follow religion passively ignorant of its true history and nature, they follow political parties blindly unaware of who is really paying them off, and they will just be led to the slaughter giving away their hard - earned money due to fear for their soul and fear for their own self - interests... We all suffer, as they reap what they sow... Sophian

Of course, the «be nice» commandment does not extend to those who oppose one's political ideology or stand in the way of the pursuit individual self - interest or «happiness» at the expense of others.

God's grace is real, but sound Christian teaching, confirmed by two thousand years of experience, informs us that the effect of grace is to save and sanctify willing souls, not to create a new political order in which self - interest is irrelevant.

It is significant that the major political theorists based their understanding of how the state came to be on the principle of self - interest alone.

Holloway uses nice phrases like the «call to love» and the «spirit of charity,» but his actual prescriptions for Christian political action are only distinguishable from secular guidance by differences of emphasis — a little less self - interest, a little more charity.

Certainly, the Allies acted out of other, self - interested, political motivations as well, but was it wrong to act to stop the aggression and the atrocities?

Niebuhr and the political realists did share some common convictions: the need for an adequate anthropology, understanding of human existence, which they saw as fundamentally self - centered and self - seeking; this being the case, the measure of an effective foreign policy was the responsible pursuit of the national interest.

But political difficulties continue in the UN Security Council where prudence, feasibility, self - interest and alliances still rule.

As it is, their political piety reeks of self - interested evasion.

They may well be strongly motivated by ideological commitment to libertarianism (the political philosophy which prioritises individuals excitingly pursuing their self - interest) and faith in the powers of new transformative technologies as well as in the few genius individual entrepreneurs who will lead us into a new kind of post-bureaucratic and post-state society.

The demonstrations they engage in have different root causes, but they all call for a new form of politics beyond neoliberal restructuring, destructive environmental policies, self - interested political elites and dysfunctional democracies.

Brazilian democratic institutions — corroded by corruption, self - interests, pork - barrel politics and political polarisation — are frail and may eventually fall apart, like a house of cards.

Among the most common technocratic discursive practices are the use of legal and technical language, the emphasis on management, the scientifisation of socio - political phenomena and the (self)- representation of political actors as technical, impartial, neutral and interest - free (Mc Kenna and Graham 2000).

David continued: - «The British Political Establishment parties, had the benefit, not only of their vast resources, but also quite a lot of their supporters turning out for local elections based on the self - interested leafleting and canvassing work of their local election candidates.»

That helps reveal, Orzechowski said, how many reforms are tangled in a morass of Albany power players» political self - interest, leading to unlikely bureaucratic arrangements, such as an ethics agency that is not subject to transparency laws.

Indeed, while republicans had tied the rise of self - interest to a negative story of change and corruption, in this nascent language of political economy of the eighteenth century, individuals» pursuit of their private interest was thought to be consistent not just with social and political order, as Albert O. Hirschman argued in The Passions and the Interests, but with social and political progress.

Certain elements of the political elite (which includes Farage, Gove and Johnson, of course) have exploited this situation by advancing a largely self - interested agenda.

But because Mr. Schneiderman has repeatedly shown himself time to be more interested in political grand - standing and his own self - aggrandizement than he is in pursuing justice, I do not believe there is any doubt that he or his office would be able to fairly investigate these allegations of misogynistic assault, death threats, and drug use,» he said.

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

WE (the people of the USA) have allowed shady, greedy, political criminals to sit in positions of power who only care about self - interests.

James Freedland, a spokesman for attorney general candidate state Sen. Eric T. Schneiderman (D - Manhattan), who voted in 20 of 24 years since registering said: «It's up to Ms. Rice to explain to New York's Democratic primary voters why they should choose a longtime Republican who never participated in the civic process until it served her own political self - interest.»

Instead of dividing Washington Heights in half, the proposed map makes it a «community of interest» — a self - contained area with common institutions, cultural, economic, political and social bonds.

The WFP leadership has become just another self - serving political faction more interested in their personal power and patronage, just use the name working families as a advertising slogan to mislead the voters,» added Hawkins, a teamster who is the only union member running for Governor.

He tries to smear Carl for being wealthy (self - made, albeit) all while he has his own inherited family wealth and political money from special interest groups that he claims to denounce.

We KROBOS are very wise, peace - loving people and will not allow ourselves to be incited against any other tribe in the region and the country as a whole for the political interest of few self - centred individuals.

«I am unable to watch passively whilst certain policies are enacted in order to meet the fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.

«Once you get past all the venom and the vitriol and the bruised feelings, there's a mutual self - interest in eventually finding agreement,» said Bruce N. Gyory, an Albany - based political consultant.

It is aimed at outlining the ways hedge funds bleed the economy through self - interested practice and then extend the damage through the lavish purchase of political influence.