Sentences with phrase «sharp distinctions as»

There is much overlap between the bills, however there are sharp distinctions as well.

Not exact matches

He also drew a sharp distinction between his private religious views and his public political views, pledging that his private faith would have no bearing on his actions as president.

Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»

This principle is doubly relevant to the task at hand because it is characterized by Whitehead both as blurring the sharp distinction between universals and particulars and as constituting «the first step in the description of the universe as a solidarity of many actual entities» (PR 65).

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.

JFK said it the best; — He also drew a sharp distinction between his private religious views and his public political views, pledging that his private faith would have no bearing on his actions as president.

All of these discoveries reflect Russell's commitment to logical clarity and certainty; all would be taken as indicative of the sharp distinction between his logical - analytic method and the speculative, descriptive, and often imaginative metaphysical temperament of philosophers like James and Whitehead.

Should we make a sharp distinction between public and private life as in the judgment (attributed to Martin Luther) that it is better to be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian?

In modern times the term Aryan has become a racial term, as in Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the population.

Bottom line is there is simply no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

There is simply no other religion on earth as ISLAM that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

As we noted earlier, no sharp distinction was drawn between nature and history; God was the Maker and sovereign Ruler in both spheres.

in fact, the church was fully aware of its theological position as it came to realize the sharp distinction between the Law of Peter and the Law of Thomas.

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

These politicians, of course, do not speak of politics as dirty, but they base what they say on the same sharp distinction between the Church (or Gospel) and politics.

There is a close parallel in the interaction of metaphorical language and literal language; there is no sharp line between the two, but only a distinction which is relative, shifting, and contextdependent.31 «Man is a wolf» invites reflection not only on wolf - life characteristics of man, but also on man - like characteristics of the wolf, which is seen thereafter as more human.

No sharp distinction can be drawn between the work of the priest as leader of worship and his pastoral task of guiding men along their way to God.

The distinction is not as sharp as is often made out.

Former Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini promised to strictly adhere to ethical standards as he took office Tuesday as the county's district attorney, drawing a sharp distinction with his indicted predecessor.

Reading these two books in sequence, I came across a passage in Charles Glenn's foreword to class Between Memory and Vision that threw a sharp and revealing light on the subtle and often mind - numbing distinctions elaborated in Does God Belong in Public Schools Glenn writes: «The effect of Supreme Court decisions over the past forty years was to treat religion as the only forbidden motivation for school choice.»

Recent international humanitarian law such as the Geneva conventions draw a sharp distinction between international armed conflict (IAC) and non-international armed conflict (NIAC).