Sentences with phrase «public discourse as»

The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.

Hunter's book presents a strong case for understanding the current state of public discourse as a «culture war,» shaped by ideological extremes.

First, our community is evolving from its origin connecting us with family and friends to now becoming a source of news and public discourse as well.

Not exact matches

The study's analysis «challenges a simple narrative that the internet as a technology is what fragments public discourse and polarizes opinions,» the authors say.

The resulting public discourse has seen furor from many quarters with politicians on both sides of the Atlantic rounding on all parties involved in the allegations with Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg earlier facing two inquisitions from the US lawmakers as a result.

In recent months, as the 2016 election campaigns have gathered momentum, concern about the long - term effects of the buyback craze has crept into public discourse and caught the attention of politicians.

In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.

As bankers, we are concerned about growth and returns - regulators about safety and soundness - central bankers with the competing interests of systemic risk and economic growth - and politicians have to deal with significant public discourse.

Many of us see the risk of people using nonesense in public discourse, and intend to prevent it from being presented as relevant.

Our friend as Tom Harmon is big on a CONSERVATIVE yet POSTMODERN response to the exchange in PUBLIC DISCOURSE.

And that, as I explained yesterday at Public Discourse, is simply not so.

As Tocqueville saw, without that upward thrust, belief in the inviolable dignity of every single person will not survive, nor will respect for truth in public discourse.

I do not use it as much as the Times does, and I think it should not be used in a way that precludes the conversation and persuasion that should be, but is not, the ordinary mode of public discourse.

As anyone in publishing could testify, it was not an immediately obvious or intuitive combination: Newsletters were big business in those pre-Internet days, and public - intellectual journals held an important position in national discourse.

It is an attempt to identify in modes of discourse accessible to the public those first principles of truth and justice that are sufficiently clear as to be adopted as bases for public policy and the ordering of international life.

As political issues carve a toehold in public discourse, they become constitutive elements of the American experience.

It was one more voice attempting to inject religiously informed wisdom into a public discourse that is increasingly debased by major media that are as morally ignorant as they are religiously indifferent.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can...

Participants in this practice, known as scriptural reasoning, are part of a movement that wants to protect religiously plural societies while simultaneously encouraging religious people to enter more deeply into public discourse.

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

The full amplitude of the just war tradition would be capable of considering such components of complicity and even entrapment as part of the definition of just cause, but our public discourse has consistently described the case as if the history of Mesopotamia began in August.

Public discourse on the fallen is going to be an approximation, but if Hayes was going to wonder whether (for instance) troops who died because their Humvee ran over an IED or because they were shot by an Afghan security officer they were training should not be described as heroes, the calendar offers about 320 or so better days to bring up the subject.

First, as I note at Public Discourse today in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers in bioethics are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has been born.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but without the fear of being caricatured, labeled or demonized.

Indeed, I still believe that the question of an adequate paradigm for theology as a public form of discourse remains the most important item on the contemporary theological agenda.

The general question «What is theology as a discipline informing public discourse?»

Branding someone as «religious» in public discourse, he observes, often becomes a surefire way to dismiss what that person is saying.

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

Longtime readers know of my obsession with mathematical beauty, so it should come as no surprise to find me hopping up and down most eagerly and pointing you towards Matthew Milliner's very immodest proposal in Public Discourse.

The last of these possibilities may be the likeliest, as Robert P. George suggested nearly a year ago here at Public Discourse.

That conventional wisdom respects religion, in its place, but it does not trust religious commitment as the basis for national thought or as a perspective underlying public discourse.

Not everyone views the «F Bomb» as a necessity to decent and public discourse.

As such, it must make its case sometimes in conversation with and sometimes against other proposals that are advanced in the public square of democratic discourse.

It's hard not to see the vague and generalized public apologies that have become a part of our cultural discourse as anything but attempts at superficial reconciliation.

Preaching to the church is a form of public discourse in which God is recognized as being related to human beings not just individually but in the full context of their existence.

This, it seems to me, is the heart of the matter when we consider religious discourse as public rhetoric.

As I want to see other groups engage in their own renewal, I welcome their involvement in public discourse.

What I find disappointing about many studies of public rhetoric is (a) their tendency to focus only on content, rather than the form or structure of discourse, (b) their tendency to thematize this content, and (c) their tendency to regard these themes as reflections, or reinforcements, of collective values — which apparently lie hidden somewhere in the subjectivity of the collective conscience.

There are some who now seek to exclude religious belief from public discourse, to privatize it or even to paint it as a threat to equality and liberty.

If sports have lately served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity, it's because we have so few live, public spectacles around which discussion of any kind can take place.

What happened to his wife during those two hours, McCrea and several other notable concussion researchers say, is a microcosm of what has happened in American living rooms throughout the past decade as public perception and media discourse have altered the conversation surrounding concussion.

No matter your perceptions on these topics, its been quite evident that social media is proving itself as a new player in bringing attention and essential information on topics not already in our public discourse.

As I said in the article, we should be very, very careful any time we restrict the range of allowed public discourse.

I enjoy Flower of Scotland, but... The «black British» point and the absence of «black English» from public discourse is not intended as a demand for hyphenated identities or any official categorisation, though I can see how it could be read as that.

It ain't for nothin'that newspaper and television reporters and pundits have steadily lost audience over the last decade to a new army of amateurs and outsiders — a world of information scarcity is being replaced by a world of information plenty, and political journalism's place as the arbiter of public discourse is eroding fast.

The representation of History as an account of conflict between multiple civilizations is both historically incorrect and politically problematic, offering tools of manipulation and Othering in public discourse.

Also, live broadcasting platforms offer channels to continue the public discourse following an event as well.

These are people on the fringes of public discourse, widely recognised and vilified as extremists.

And our public discourse is shallow enough as it is.

As the popular uprising against Mubarak gained momentum, a riveting public discourse took shape in Egypt that compared the revolution of July 1952 to that of January 2011.