Sentences with phrase «social thinkers in»

A few years after this critique of development from a Third World standpoint, a second dissenting movement appeared, primarily among social thinkers in advanced industrial countries.

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(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

In the years since Humanae Vitae's appearance, numerous distinguished Catholic thinkers have argued, using a variety of evidence, that each of these predictions has been borne out by the social facts.

The alternative position is to wrestle, as Christian thinkers, with the question: What kinds of social, economic, and political changes are required in our own society if the United States is to abandon its alliances with local oppressors in Latin America?

With its Marxist sheen dulled, much of this debate has ceased to be about class divisions (although it retains that edge in certain thinkers) and more so about mentalités — mindsets or common outlooks — that comprise the beliefs inhabiting the social imaginary.

Allow this center in a man to remain dulled by the crowd; allow it to continue dissipated by busyness; permit it to go on evading its function by a round of distractions, or to lull itself by a carefully chosen rotation of pleasures; abandon it to its attempt to drug, to narcotize suffering and remorse which might reveal to it its true condition; let it wither away the sense of its own validity by false theories of man's nature, of his place in the social pattern, of his way of salvation; in short, allow any of these well - known forms of domestication of man's responsible core as an individual, to continue unchallenged, and you as a thinker and a friend of men have committed the supreme treason!

John Shea, a young theologian and author of three books, says that many fine thinkers of his generation prefer to «act out what they believe in social or political programs, or talk out their ideas in conferences and workshops, rather than write them out.»

In opposition to the reductionist social science of secular thinkers like Freud, Durkheim and Marx, Eliade took a stand for the autonomy of religion and the humanistic paradigm of explanation.

Second, they can join the evangelicalism stampede, providing heart - warming and entertaining experiences, which will provide very little connection to serious thinkers today, and gives scant attention, except for a few voices like Sojourners, to the truly catastrophic issues in the Social and the Cultural areas described above.

Emil Brunner, «Some Remarks on Reinhold Niebuhr's Work as a Christian Thinker,» in Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social, and Political Thought, p. 28.

That Jesus is the most important figure in world history is more readily acknowledged by thinkers who are accustomed to looking behind social and political changes to the grounds from which they spring.

Which is appropriate, after all, since most of the ancient thinkers who have inspired her work certainly understood that our quest for eudaimonia is profoundly dependent upon the social order in which we live and think.

In any case, it is interesting that many of the contextual thinkers of the past several decades do not seem to be interested in the social impact of these developmentIn any case, it is interesting that many of the contextual thinkers of the past several decades do not seem to be interested in the social impact of these developmentin the social impact of these developments.

A generation before the existential Now theologians were shouting it from the front lines, he knew that the safest place for the Christian thinker was in the midst of the social struggle.

Thinkers as diverse as Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Herbert Spencer, Max Weber, and the holders of the Chair of Peter, to name but a few, all have addressed the social question in one form or another.

The apparatus of scholarship is there, but the book's each and every claim represents a radical reduction of social reality and experience, particularly Faludi's presumption that any rethinking undertaken by any feminist at any time, if the thinker in question comes out at some place Faludi dislikes, constitutes a prima facie case that the woman in question has become a backlash pawn.

Theology must be formulated in the terms of the social mind of the time, which meant, for the Chicago thinkers, in democratic categories and thought forms shaped by the influence of modern science.

At the University of Chicago Divinity School, thinkers who participated in the social gospel tradition developed the socio - historical understanding of Christianity and applied this perspective to Biblical, historical, and systematic study.

Although social surveys indicate that roughly 80 percent of Americans believe in life after death, it is a belief cherished against the grain of perceived official skepticism; and among academically trained religious thinkers, one finds a greater measure of skepticism than in the population at large.

Unfortunately, those Wesleyans who recognized the weakness of the social gospel in this respect tended to react against its passion for social righteousness as a whole and to interpret Wesley falsely as an individualistic thinker.

The deep - seated character of American racism expressed itself in the policies of the labor unions that Social Gospel thinkers supported so strongly.

Very outgoing, social, logical thinker, loves public speaking, and totally jumps in full force to his passions.

Also in the late «80s, a number of leading thinkers in the Waldorf movement gathered regularly at Rudolf Steiner College, in Fair Oaks, CA, to exploring themes of Waldorf school organization, finances, economic life and other social and organizational issues.

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

A feminist thinker and social reformer, she had witnessed first - hand the plight of impoverished women in her native Liverpool and, following her election, made sure that their voices were heard at the highest level.

Dino who faulted the action in a social media platform «Positive thinker» «described Governor Bello's decision as hypocritical.

Center for Popular Democracy's staff includes leading thinkers in policy, civil rights, social justice, and organizing.

I don't want to mention too many names but Karen Bradley (formerly of the Tory policy unit), Philippa Stroud (because of her lifelong commitment to social justice), Liz Truss (a radical thinker on public sector reform), Harriett Baldwin (because of her knowledge of the financial world) and Fiona Bruce (because of her legal and business background) are just five stars - in - the - waiting.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

Following on from her 1987 award - winning The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, it establishes Martin as one of the world's most original and stimulating thinkers grappling with the cultural and social context of science and medicine today.

The thinkers were chosen for «engaging in original and profound ways with the central questions of the world today,» as well as for their continuing significance for «this year's biggest questions» (in economics, science, philosophy, cultural and social criticism and in politics).

Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with The City of Boston and ArtsEmerson, is excited to present a Community Conversation featuring Bryan Stevenson on Wednesday, December 9 at Emerson College from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Stevenson is one of the country's most inspired thinkers and social justice advocates, and a leader in the movement to fight mass incarceration.

Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)

The emphasis in France was on reason, while in England these thinkers were more concerned with the social virtues of compassion, benevolence and sympathy.

Mt. Vernon's rich history was defined by a dynamic network of social clubs and innovative thinkers who gathered often in the name of cocktails and creativity.

Ways to describe this nascent paradigm vary — Banny Banerjee at Stanford Institute of Design talks about «design thinking»; at the Experience Design Group in Stockholm, Rolf Hughes and I consider it as a trans - disciplinary form of «disruptive innovation» — but held in common is the belief that designers should be critical thinkers and strategists first, capable of addressing cross-disciplinary problems by designing the social, political, economic and educational «systems» that give them greater reach, responsibility, influence and relevance.

In the first phase of his career (1939 - 1948), Greenberg was a Trotskyite socialist (a vision of socialism based on the ideas of the exiled and ultimately murdered Russian revolutionary and thinker Leon Trotsky) with an interest in the social and psychological background of the artist and in theories of the medium, especially those of influential German - born painter and educator Hans HofmanIn the first phase of his career (1939 - 1948), Greenberg was a Trotskyite socialist (a vision of socialism based on the ideas of the exiled and ultimately murdered Russian revolutionary and thinker Leon Trotsky) with an interest in the social and psychological background of the artist and in theories of the medium, especially those of influential German - born painter and educator Hans Hofmanin the social and psychological background of the artist and in theories of the medium, especially those of influential German - born painter and educator Hans Hofmanin theories of the medium, especially those of influential German - born painter and educator Hans Hofmann.

The A+RC's program will feature application - based, graduate - level workshops and public presentations by leading thinkers and theorists in the humanities and social sciences, exploring themes such as climate change and social justice that impact the conditions from which contemporary art emerges.

«The Arcades Project foreshadows our experience of modernity: we absorb an overwhelming mass of information and cultural activity, yet it comes to us in a fragmented form, often through social and digital media, without the orderly coherence that thinkers and artists once predicted for the future.

Motivated by the idea of art acting as an agent for social awareness, Araeen looked to Islamic civilisation and developed a body of work in ode to Islam's thinkers and philosophers.

08 Mar 2016 IMMA announces landmark Lucian Freud Project for Ireland alongside an expanded 2016 programme of new work IMMA announces landmark Lucian Freud Project for Ireland alongside an expanded 2016 programme of new work celebrating the radical thinkers and activists whose vision for courageous social change in Ireland and beyond remains relevant to us today.

It is the cleverly used archive footage that really fascinates — though not nearly so effectively as similar material did in John Amkomfrah's moving film about the social thinker Stuart Hall, showing at the current Liverpool Biennial.

Curated by Ingrid Swenson (Peer, London) the exhibition will be shown in the historic Gibson Galleries, and will incorporate an installation over twenty metres in length, exploring pertinent questions of our times, as offered by over 40 leading social thinkers and commentators.

By the time of Documenta X, I had come to know Benjamin Buchloh, who also moves across the social circles of artists and writers and thinkers in his own political, philosophical way, and he introduced me to Gabriel Orozco.

The evening has been organized by Visual AIDS with Gregg Bordowitz and Pati Hertling, in conjunction with the inaugural publication of DUETS, a publication series that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV / AIDS.

Sarah Glennie continued; «The focus of IMMA's 2016 programme is to celebrate the radical thinkers and activists who paved the way for courageous social change, whilst reflecting on the artistic and cultural community who played an active role in the period leading up to 1916.

IMMA announces landmark Lucian Freud Project for Ireland alongside an expanded 2016 programme of new work celebrating the radical thinkers and activists whose vision for courageous social change in Ireland and beyond remains relevant to us today.

Solis, leading thinker in the integration of social media and PR, recently spoke on an intriguing concept: ideas connect us more than relationships.

I am generally a leftward leaning thinker and travel largely in social circles sympathetic to climate alarmism.

Modern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments in the design and construction of new housing stock in re-urbanizing cities throughout the United States.