Sentences with phrase «pragmatist willing»

«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.

At many points the influence of John Dewey and other pragmatists will be evident, particularly their belief in democracy as a comprehensive way of life, their confidence in the wide relevance of the scientific spirit and methods, and their commitment to education as a moral enterprise.

Pragmatists will always defer to mainstream gatekeepers who can generally be relied on to provide a steady stream of at - least - pretty - good offerings.

Not exact matches

«Not surprisingly, then, some of the most successful and admired leaders — for example, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy — were above all pragmatists, willing to do what was necessary to achieve important objectives.»

Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I'm a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Between the unrealistic dreamers on the one hand, and the asinine turbo - pragmatists on the other, not enough is getting done, not enough will get done, and in another 2000 years we'll dig up the hard disks on which these articles appear and see that things might be the same then, too.

For someone who claims close affinities to Dewey and the pragmatists, this surely will not do.

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

The question of what is required of a people that will be «fit for the reign of God» can receive very different answers in pragmatist and visionary contexts.

And this is what makes Wu a natural pragmatist — he'll reject unpractical ideas and accept good ones, if it works satisfactorily.

We argue in our leader in this week's Spectator that Cameron is a man of principle, a friend of freedom and a pragmatist who will recognize that press regulation would not address the abuses of press freedom.

Since then, Maloney has focused on building a record as a pragmatist who is willing to both vote against his party when necessary and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to get things done.

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.

After building your first bot, we'll review what we've learned and how you can continue your journey, be it as a Disruptor, Pragmatist, or Liberal Arts Major.

It seems improbable that our American colleagues will ever again see the likes of the trio of great legal pragmatists, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand.

Or, for those pragmatists among us, it also means that the headphones won't draw as much power from your device when the amp is in use, thereby saving your device's battery life.

This is a critical distinction: in Moore's telling, pragmatists and conservatives pay attention to price simply because they aren't willing to pay a premium.