Sentences with phrase «public philosophy»

In this light, adaptation is less a problem of science and technology than of politics and of public philosophy and understanding.

Millions of such scenarios around the globe demonstrate the practical need for a new public philosophy of access.

The intention of the enterprise is to advance a religiously grounded public philosophy for this and other experiments in human freedom.

I'm not, of course, denying the sensible idea that there's a difference between public philosophy and philosophy simply.

It was explicitly public philosophy; it was (largely) implicitly public theology.

But they hold in common rejection of religion as being capable of founding an acceptable public philosophy for our time.

In any case, no one committed to even the possibility of a religiously founded public philosophy can ignore either rejection.

To date, however, none of the candidates has articulated a very clear vision of what a future public philosophy might look like.

It still remains the case that the ideology of Progressive Reform died as a sustainable, governing public philosophy with the failure of the Great Society.

Their work represents the possibility of creating something that has been missing from Israeli society and culture for too long: a religiously - informed public philosophy for shaping the typically raucous Israeli debate over the country's present and future.

Cornel West, professor of practice of public philosophy at the Harvard Divinity School, will kick - off this semester's series with the talk, «Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback.»

On the lower left, leaning in, is William M. Sullivan, who has already made a name for his important Reconstructing Public Philosophy.

The Catch - 22 for Christians pondering the relationship of religion and public policy in a culturally diverse society is that if Christianity is to have a voice in shaping public philosophy, it seems that equity demands that it do so in a way that gives Christians no special voice.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

Whether Clinton recognized it or not, he hit on a coherent public philosophy.

The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate about public philosophy ongoing among black Americans.

But for now I also doubt that the repudiation of our President's ideology will generate a sustainable, governing alternative public philosophy either.

Neuhaus thought Evangelical and Catholic intellectuals could fill the void, providing America with a religiously informed public philosophy suited to our times.

Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to an American Public Philosophy Edited by R. Bruce Douglass and David Hollenbach Cambridge University Press, 352 pages, $ 59.95

We have sometimes described the purpose of this journal and its related enterprises in terms of «advancing a religiously grounded public philosophy for the democratic experiment in freedom and virtue.»

But public philosophy faded with the founding generation.

In the formative period of the American republic a vigorous public philosophy complemented our public theology.

At a moment when civil religious symbols are more and more co-opted by ultraconservatives and the philosophy of liberalism seems less and less adequate as a guide to our public or private lives, a revival of public philosophy seems urgently needed.8 One of the tasks of such a revival would be to make the religious aspect of our central tradition understandable in a nonreactionary way.

Readers would be suspicious, and rightly so, of Catholics presenting an otherwise convincing public philosophy that does not square with the teaching of the Catholic Church.

If American Jews had a genuine public philosophy, they would not have to be reduced to adventitious proof - texting.

The abandonment of this civic ideal for the economy, the real turning point, took place later according to Sandel, in the second half of the 19th century, when a «political economy of citizenship [turned in] to a political economy of economic growth and distributive justice, from a republican public philosophy to the version of liberalism that informs the procedural republic».

Americans haphazardly employed a shallow, if admittedly pragmatic public philosophy, while also engaging themselves deeply in the civic demands of self - government.

William M. Sullivan has made an important contribution in this direction in his Reconstructing Public Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming).

Strauss» neon highlighting of the distinction between esoteric and exoteric teachings — and the corresponding sharp distinction between philosophers and nonphilosophers — even falls into this category of public philosophy.

Now a better way of saying «dogma» might be «public philosophy,» a teaching that's partly true but not as true as those who buy it think it is.

The end of the film (very) briefly mentions his worry that Western democracies like America will endorse moral relativism as its public philosophy.

Desperately needed is a public philosophy that happily is available through the natural law.

I continue to appreciate Jim Skillen's thoughtful contribution to the forging of a biblically based Christian approach to public philosophy.

The argument for Ross and Yuval is, of course, they have the mixture of «public philosophy,» laidback but serious theology, instinctive and calculated prudence, and expertise in public policy that our side needs to look smarter than it often does and be smarter than it often is.

Nevertheless, I believe that it is wrong to argue, as Skillen does, that we can define a distinctive Christian politics» that is, a political vision or public philosophy that is uniquely Christian.

As a Lutheran he has considerable respect for a civil religion or public philosophy that undergirds virtue in the public square (what Lutherans call «the left - hand kingdom of God»).

The message of this book is that democratic life should be conceived not as an enterprise of autonomous men, no matter how clever they may be in organizing to pursue their interests, but as a way of realizing the Will of Heaven — that is, of doing the truth and serving the right in which man's proper being and destiny consist, This is another manner of signifying the «public philosophy» earlier mentioned.

The present book may also make a contribution to what Walter Lippmann calls «the public philosophy.»

The public philosophy is the claim that the objective law of right, written into the nature of things, makes on citizens, as contrasted with the claims that the citizens make on the natural and social reality on which they depend.

In Theravada Buddhist countries where Buddhism has supplied the public philosophy the points of contact are more apparent and the emphasis easier to ground.

Finally Americans remain pretty even divided or conflicted on «public philosophy,» and we remain a center to center - right country.

Insofar as I promote a public philosophy designed to reinforce the authority of traditional culture, I'm necessarily «judging» those whose lives aren't in accord with that authority teaches.

Walter Lippmann in The Public Philosophy grapples with an issue that has long concerned Reinhold Niebuhr in lectures and writings, namely, the problem of a relevant political ethic.