Sentences with phrase «political utopianism»

The prophets» «religious utopianism» was perhaps too close to the political utopianism with which he was already becoming disillusioned.

Bosslet's position on the role of the artist, at least as expressed in the works presented here, is ideologically conservative, but entirely honorable — especially in view of the desolation and destruction wreaked on the world in our century by various political utopianisms.

Not exact matches

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.

Moral Realism inherent in this approach is to avoid two absolutist positions of utopianism - one, the approach of political religions which seek to bring perfect community on earth through political action, which ends in tyranny because it asks the impossible from power - politics; and the other, a withdrawal from politics because it can not bring perfect community on earth, which ends by tolerating the worst tyranny and oppression without resistance.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

These include a Catholic mind that takes seriously Adam Smith's economic and philosophical insights; the affirmation that markets must be grounded upon particular moral, political, and legal habits and institutions; the attention to how awareness of the reality of sin should incubate us against economic utopianism; and, perhaps above all, the sustained effort to locate democratic capitalism within a vision of God and man, thereby giving it genuine theological meaning.

Without some bonding to the earth and to the political and economic realities of our existence, hope turns into reverie or romantic utopianism.

In contemporary Russia in which the official political and cultural attitudes become increasingly conservative, a new generation of Russian artists continue the tradition of the Russian artistic and political Left: desire to change the reality by means of art, ideals of equality and social justice, radical Utopianism, secularism and internationalism.

From utopianism and pornography to technology and surveillance, this body of work less than gently treads the lines between the personal and the political.