Sentences with word «pragmatist»

In the tradition of pragmatist John Dewey, education is always a «public» activity, concerned with providing people with resources for reflection on and transformation of the environment.

In this season of crisis in American religion, Jayber Crow is a consoling reminder of that faithful pragmatist in Jesus» sermon who builds his house on the rock so that it can withstand the storm and the flood.

Instead, he did his metaphysical thinking in the midst of the most modern of the philosophers, in dialogue with logical positivists and modal logicians as well as pragmatists and phenomenologists.

This transition, from relying upon sympathetic visionaries to persuading skeptical pragmatists with convincing evidence, was dubbed «crossing the chasm» by Geoffrey Moore:

However, they were also pragmatists, and they couldn't have failed to see how democracy, which was viewed in India as inseparable from the promise of social and economic justice, and the official ideology of secular nationalism were necessary means to contain the country's many sectarian divisions.

She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research.

In our verbal exchanges, I came to realize that Hafif wasn't so much a practitioner of Zen (as many would no doubt falsely believe) as she was, ultimately, a «self - reliant» American pragmatist of the first order.

Ravitch's critique suggests that this competition is not run by pragmatists, but rather by ideologues who are led by the Bill Gates Foundation.

Let's see, do the glinty eyed pragmatists at America Achieves want to take on the billionaire boy's club on Wall Street or just blather on about data and the usual corporate «reform» silver bullets?

Pragmatists hold that the practical course of action is best; they choose the plan that works.

By New Testament times the tension between prophecy and politics was expressed in the opposition between pragmatists like the Saduccees and Pharisees, who sought to adapt national life to the inevitable powers of the world, and visionaries like the Essene monks at Qumran or John the Baptist who anticipated the emergence of a new age of holiness after God judged this evil age.

Pragmatists don't wait for absolute truths to arrive and give us full contact with hard reality; that will never happen.

For old - style pragmatist liberals such often unacknowledged standards were the principles of modem Western democracy.

Another prominent liberal of an earlier generation, Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, Governor Mario Cuomo, a self described «progressive pragmatist,» also opposed casino gambling on the same grounds which Mayor LaGuardia did.

Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.

Late in 2010, Jonathan Foley, who directs the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota, wrote «Becoming a Climate Pragmatist,» an essay published online then and the following spring in the institute's magazine, Momentum.

He looks for general managers who can think both analytically and creatively — creative pragmatists.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

The leaders of the world's cities are the great pragmatists on the world's stage.

# 49, matt, I am glad to see there are a few pragmatists here.

In fact, their fundamental premise that all truth claims are socially constructed is not far removed from that of old - style liberal pragmatists.

Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton were essentially pragmatists.

If there was a glaring vulnerability in bitcoin's foundational technology, she's the hawk - eyed pragmatist who would have found it.

They position Lincoln as a crafty pragmatist among passionate zealots on both sides of the slavery issue.

What a charge to bring against the great pragmatist: that his dream could not bear fruit in the everyday world.

«At the moment, New York needs a caring pragmatist willing to address real concerns raised by caring parents and educators who see a system being manipulated from above to the detriment of their children,» he said.

Above all else, the First Lady strikes me as a savvy pragmatist, pushing for reforms only where there are clear openings and likely pay - offs.

Keynes was the ultimate pragmatist, and at times this made him an elusive target for Hayek.

In contrast, Labour pragmatists left Brighton even less sure of their own strategy than when they had arrived.

Allen, a radical pragmatist who understands the need to tread carefully, will keep his revolutionary instincts in check in the report.

According to this poll, Gibson's effort to cast himself as an independent pragmatist is resonating with voters unaffiliated with any political party, whose support could prove key in the November election.

For a power - hungry pragmatist on a budget, you'd be hard pressed to find a better option than the ASUS ZenFone 2.

As a Virgo to the core and utter pragmatist, the idea of using flowers as a cure for my emotional and psychological issues seemed, to put it bluntly, silly.

But ancestral health has not yet won over skeptical pragmatists — people who want proof before they'll buy.

Here, Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan in peculiar eyebrows), the wily opportunist, and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (an impressive Lior Ashkenazi), the conflicted pragmatist, each try to secure the hostages» release, but in a manner that will gain them personally the maximum political advantage.

Once Jax's loyalties were split between a father who was a feckless idealist and a stepfather who was a ruthless pragmatist, an interesting conflict.

Meanwhile, though based on two actual Texas City detectives, Ferrarone's protagonists belong to the standard - issue partnership of «hot - headed pragmatist» and «principled, sensitive soul,» and his villain, likewise, owes more to Hollywood convention than an attempt at credible, multi-dimensional characterisation.

Kashmir Hill, senior online editor of Forbes, describes herself as a privacy pragmatist with an interest in the intersection of law, technology, social media and personal information.

We need pragmatists.

But a true pragmatist should recognize that Facebook's historic approach to privacy, which gives users fine - grained control over various data sources and uses through a complex array of settings, has been deeply flawed.

This year, a surprising number of projects are getting under way around the world, helmed not by quixotic visionaries but by hard - nosed pragmatists such as those at aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.

Labour's New Pragmatists will have to agree on a new leader.

He is a long / short pragmatist - when oil related investments are overvalued he sells, when they and their free cash flows are undervalued he invests.

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.