Sentences with phrase «reaction against the idea»

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It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

When I present a new idea, I want students to understand it, to think about it, to wrestle with what impact, if any, it has on their thinking, and to give cogent reasons, for or against, for their reactions.

This comment is based in several fallacies - The NRA spends a lot of money, therefore the public is swayed based on (presumably) false information, therefore congress fears negative public reaction to their votes, therefore they vote against what would (presumably) otherwise be a excellent ideas.

Last year, I counselled against too brutal a reaction to the idea of a future coalition between the Liberal Democrats and Labour.

Having seen a strong civil society reaction against such a change that was deemed to run against the principle of constitutionalism, Abe had to abandon the plan, and that is how he then came around to the idea of simply revising the official government interpretation of the constitution to lift the ban on CSD.

But unlike some postmodernists, who see their resurgent representational impulses as a reaction against modernism and therefore the next step in a historical progression, Gabriel rejected the very idea of progress in art.

Rail: So much about the reaction against Neo-Expressionism is there's a whole constellation of things that we're trying to sort through, one of those is «authorship,» and now everyone gets very uncomfortable at the idea of art expressing the feeling of an artist.

In this interview with Garage Museum chief curator Kate Fowle, excerpted from Phaidon's just - released monograph Sterling Ruby, the artist delves into his idea of autobiography — how his work stems from his life experiences of a rural upbringing and reaction against being taught Conceptualism in school.

Microsoft first revealed it would allow Xbox gamers to play against PS4 and PC players at E3 last year, and Sony's initial reaction seemed like it would be open to the idea.