Sentences with phrase «pragmatism if»

Spellings is going to need more than her pragmatism if she wants to see reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act move forward and ensure the education legacy of President Bush.

We've all seen huge amounts of pragmatism if you actually bother to look.

Not exact matches

If the government has any ideology, it is only pragmatism — and then only aimed at re-election.

After eight years of an ideologically driven White House, and if Trump listens to decent and sensible advisers, pragmatism could be a good thing.

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).

But if it suggests a willingness to live with a certain pragmatism and provisionality, a suspicion of all - encompassing schemes, a readiness to risk a little more disorder instead of a little too much Ordnung, then I think the book qualifies.

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.

Hear these phrases, know them for what they are - not logic, not good advice, not pragmatism: know if for the spirit sucking, abjectly spirit snatching, energy depleting weapons of words they are.

Still, I can't decide if the non-response is hubris or pragmatism.

There is a chilling sense of history coming alive to haunt the club in those comments, as if Shanks has turned in his grave one too many times over the lack of pragmatism.

His cosmopolitan, free - flowing approach to the game is what made me a soccer fan, even if I didn't realize it at the time, and even if I'd trade it now for the petty pragmatism of a Mourinho if results improved.

I'm more concerned about the volume of water in the glass and if it would suffice to quench my thirst... Perhaps this deep rooted cynical pragmatism comes with being an engineer in an industry that is more of a sausage fest than the average meat packing plant?

Again, this is an issue of pragmatism: if both parents work, sometimes it seems impossible to have 1 stay home with a sick child.

If this is correct we may hope to expect more pragmatism in fiscal policy over the next few years, rather than allowing a Conservative majority government to spark a determination to reduce the share of government spending and the size of the public sector, regardless of the costs.

But the majority view is that it could be done if the British team showed some pragmatism and a more clear - sighted approach to what they actually want.

It's now tinged by a hint of pragmatism, however, as if Damian Green - the shadow home secretary who is now faced with the practical reality of turning those hundreds of thousands into tens of thousands - contemplates what to do next.

If that is the sum of our electoral «pragmatism,» however, then we may as well abandon any practical working goal of democratic socialism.

Even if a bout of pragmatism break out after suffering multiple election defeats, the party's grassroots will still remain anchored on the centre - left.

So finally, even if in his Einsteinian pragmatism God could only be accurately described as the Old One, surely there was a faith in that image, perhaps an agnostic's faith, that made it presumptuous for any human being to come to any conclusion about the goodness or incomprehensible amorality of God's universe or the souls it contained until we at least learned the laws that governed it.

But if there was any sentiment involved, it was buried in pragmatism.

If we don't want to deal with problems in Peirce's philosophy of science, simply talking about naturalism and pragmatism might be of help.

If the Nordic approach to the energy trilemma were to be described with one word it would be pragmatism.

There is a significant if fine line between pragmatism and buckling.

I always wondered if this was an artifact of the means - to - an - end trade school mentality that most of these same students possessed, or if their supposed pragmatism was actually a facade erected to hide their genuine lack of curiosity and interest in the law as an intellectual construct.

If you are willing to step outside the dulling requirements that many career reporters espouse, you will liberate yourself to compose a resume melody that is harmonic — blending professional pragmatism with eloquent and lyrical notes that transport the reader.