Sentences with phrase «pragmatism as»

They see the world as opportunity and see pragmatism as a philosophy.

In my experience, clients — whether multinationals, small and medium enterprises, individual entrepreneurs or institutional investors — place heavy premium on legal advice rooted in commercial pragmatism as much as in the knowledge of local market trends.

The council speaker has had trouble selling her pragmatism as principled.

@deworde and barrycarter: I think deworde is close to right, but it is not so much pragmatism as simple greed, and barrycarter is right that police service is a poor example.

Kaplan's approach to peoplehood would appear to have the support historian Conor Cruise O'Brien, who writes of rationality, self - interest, an pragmatism as insufficient to hold together a society that has lost the common bond of religion.

In the Introduction editors Tan and Whalen - Bridge acknowledge their debt to Philosopher Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007), whose germinal work had revived John Dewey (1859 - 1952) and his pragmatism as a contribution not only to education, but in governance as well in his social democracy.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

Pragmatism as a philosophy, its proponents insist, is more than a matter of what works, but it ought to work better than that.

The newly elected French President has chosen pragmatism as a way to overcome divergences with the U.S. administration.

Not exact matches

With his as - needed approach to home - office equipment, this college - football guru has written the playbook on technological pragmatism.

«What I've found as an individual coming here to the US is that the level of pragmatism you have here across the board, from your doorman to the highest - level executives, is phenomenal,» he said.

As for Glickman's penchant for turning the company upside down to deliver on impossible promises, there are signs that, for better or worse, a certain pragmatism and even maturity may be setting in.

While critics might lambaste this as wishy - washiness, it is perhaps one of the best and most unique things about Canada — a pragmatism that ultimately trumps single - mindedness.

Pragmatism may be preventing Bezos from pulling the trigger on long - rumored initiatives such as same - day delivery and a move into brick - and - mortar retail — two projects that remain tremendous financial challenges, even for a company of Amazon's scale and execution prowess.

In his 15 years as Chief Big Ass (yes, that's his actual title), Smith has shown the knack for blending fast - growth pragmatism and innovative, big - picture planning.

He added that he hopes «pragmatism will prevail over ideology» as Mr. Trump staffs his administration.

That thought, as Louis Menand shows, was a cause of the moral nihilism of our pragmatism and Social Darwinism etc..

Frogist I think the author is implying that we as a society are moving steadily and slowly in the direction of pragmatism.

We do not believe politicians as we used to, we do not believe the media, and whereas we believe each other» Thanking you Your's sincerely M.S.MOHAMED ANSARI Pragmatism has now fallen foul of the continuing power of the press.

Thus pragmatism must be seen as a truncated idealism.

As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to practice their faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.

Weigel must either believe that some propositions are properly subjects for moral judgment, and others not (this truly is a form of Gnosticism), or that some propositions are more easily held and accepted by current society, and that the Church as a matter of pragmatism ought to prioritize low - hanging fruit.

He finds current expressions of both to be internally divisive as well as at odds with each other, usually based on a conservative / liberal split that weakens the effectiveness of both «civil religions,» and leaves the way open for secular ideologies including material success, radical individual freedom, and an amoral pragmatism.

Having rejected traditional Philosophy, with a capital «P,» he urges us to embrace pragmatism, with a small «p,» as the «post-philosophical philosophy.»

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

Indeed, his 1907 book Pragmatism was framed as a defense of religion, a fact often overlooked in today's broad revival of pPragmatism was framed as a defense of religion, a fact often overlooked in today's broad revival of pragmatismpragmatism.

They claim the mantle of pragmatism even as they adopt wildly unpopular policies.

Or, as we read from Solzhenitsyn, is there a «howl of existentialism» just beneath the surface of all our happy - talk pragmatism?

Democracy As Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism In a Globalizing World, edited by Sor - Hoon Tan and John Whalen - Bridge.

As William James was fond of saying, «There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere — no difference in abstract truth that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact» (Pragmatism, pp. 49f).

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

But Kadushin broke with Kaplan over the very sort of naturalism that Kaufman so astutely sees as that which Kaplan's religious pragmatism and Whitehead's process theology have in common.

He calls it the principle of pragmatism, and he defends it somewhat as follows (In an article, How to make our Ideas Clear, in the Popular Science Monthly for January, 1878, vol.

The previous definitions and characterizations resonate with me in various ways, particularly David Koyzis's confessional core contra pragmatism and especially the «essence» offered by the inimitable John Stott (as shared by Justin Taylor).

Upon closer examination I think many will have to agree that actually many views such as how high or low taxes should be, etc. are not articles of faith by any means and as such require flexibility and pragmatism.

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

The charge of pragmatism may be justified insofar as Jesuits are inclined to adopt what is true or valuable in the thought patterns of their context as an entry point for the Church's mission of evangelization.

as it is from the pragmatism of the secular myth.

Palmer ignores this Jamesean strain of pragmatism, because his own thinking was shaped, as he tells us in one of the most powerfully confessional portions of his book, by a different strand of the pragmatic tradition.

Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s and 1880s.

For empirical theology it is the particular alone that is real, and pragmatism and radical empiricism are commentaries on the particular, whereas for conventional speculative theology (within, say, process theology) it is the general condition (such as the primordial nature of God), in addition to the particular, that is real.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

Each of these rather different versions of pragmatism varied from the rest and, often as not, actually came into logical conflict with some of them.

And of course this holds not just for pragmatism but for process philosophy as well.

But as the pragmatists were transforming higher thought at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago, and in the culture at large, another thinker was extending pragmatism well beyond the instrumentalist conception.

In his later writings (1905 and afterwards) Peirce sometimes referred to his own position as «pragmaticism» to distinguish it from what James and others were calling «pragmatism.»

What Mann and Ornstein characterize as Republican pragmatism and responsibility, many voters view as Republican cynicism and hypocrisy.

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

Take his choice to conceive of the central tension within Pentecostalism as a dialectic of «primitivism and pragmatism.»

(By attending to the characteristics of just one phase, and generalizing it, one can get a logical empiricism based on science, an existentialism based on present decision - making, or a pragmatism based on past and present as tools for shaping the future.)