Sentences with phrase «think utopian thinking»

Which, by the way, I think utopian thinking is an important component to the pastoral calling.

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Indeed, Amazon could almost be thought of as a sort of digital brutalism: it is direct and efficient, with a near - utopian aspiration to meet people's needs in the least fussy way possible.

When you attempt to sweep real issues under a rug of disingenuous and delusional positive thinking to create a Utopian version of reality, it keeps you from accurately assessing situations, making smart decisions and taking effective action.

The refreshing part of this utopian approach was that I was never told what to do or think; neither that my feelings were sinful, nor that I had to reject that view and accept my sexuality.

I think early Christians invented that as a scary - sounding disclaimer because they were always talking about how utopian heaven is and how much life on earth sucks, so they didn't want anyone getting any ideas.

Thus he was part of the broad, humanistic, and stoic (and, later, Christian) tradition of the West — one that valued basic natural rights and was incessantly called into question by variations of utilitarian and utopian thinking.

My father himself, whom I loved dearly, thought much of my vision might be utopian.

Optimistic assumptions are standard components of utopian thinking, and they have until recently been voiced by many Western leaders and thinkers.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

I am among a growing number of people who believe that there is an urgent need for a rebirth of utopian thinking within the church and in society at large.

The eschatological vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of human effort, has come to be regarded as illusion.

We've conducted a thought experiment in response to those questions and in this chapter it has yielded some elements of a utopian proposal about a theological school.

The city is the place of hopes and dreams, as the utopian thought of Plato, Augustine, and Thomas More attest.

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

In his review of Pointing the Way Niebuhr suggests that Buber's thought becomes utopian when its illuminating insights into personal life are applied to the relations of the «we» and «they» of organized groups or nations.

If you should think this is Utopian, then I would ask you to consider why it is Utopian.

Now a thought experiment and an invitation: The experiment is one more utopian exercise in sketching what makes a theological school theological and what makes a theological school a school.

Not all things are possible — to think so would be utopian, in the wrong sense — but some things are, and the trick is to learn just what these are, to master the art of «discerning the signs of the times» (Reinhold Niebuhr).

To use the term «utopian» merely as a scornful epithet does not serve the purpose of clear thinking.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

Utopians are buoyed up by their expectations; Niebuhr's hopeful expectations were more sober, but they were important for his thought on moral conduct.

I believe there is a particular need at the present to focus attention on utopian dreaming as a way of shaking us loose from obsolete ways of thinking and opening us up to those ideas, attitudes, and values that are appropriate for the future.

In his thought there was none of the utopian thought or «evolutionary optimism» often attributed to liberal theology and the social gospel movement by its critics.

Frank, yeah, I think it is a little pie - in - the - sky, but then again you've already admitted to being utopian in your thinking: — RRB -.

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

Rejecting both utopian socialism and utopian individualism, he opted for a balance in the tradition of American thought that went back to John Winthrop.

How can we reconcile this position with the high esteem of G. Gutiérrez for utopian thinking and the expectation that a Christian community should always produce new utopias?

Even if an enormous amount of thought and planning were devoted to such an alternative, thought and planning that the small struggling groups we have been studying are quite incapable at the moment of supplying, the revolutionary alternative seems quite utopian.

According to the post-modernists the utopian thinking of modem times proved to be the most merciless enemy of the people.

It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.

Then, with that eternally self - deluding wishful - thinking that so characterises them, the moral libertarian, the Secular Fundamentalist and the utopian will tell us that all we need is more of the same.

Is there still a place for utopian thinking in politics?

If anyone thinks that all the pledges by government will be fulfilled in one year, then you are being utopian».

«I think the problem with the Big Society is it's quite utopian,» Kemp says.

I do research to try to make my stories plausible, so that when you read one and it takes a utopian turn, you might think, «yeah, that could really happen.»

«I don't think it's practical to expect a competitive field like science to turn utopian and selfless for the greater good,» he writes in an e-mail.

Back in 1986, futurist K Eric Drexler (now of the Foresight Institute — a US nanotech think tank) imagined a utopian future where self - replicating nanoscale robots, or nanobots, carry out most of the work in society.

The utopian lawn practices long bandied by pushy neighbors have not been as widely adopted as thought.

«I'm always aiming for a serenity as a Utopian ideal,» Owens explains, in the seductive, measured drawl with which he typically expresses his darkest, most convoluted thoughts.

«We were also thinking about our Spring / Summer 2018 collection, which was a utopian positive vision of multicultural Europe — we felt this collection needs to be more aggressive, in a way,» he adds.

As complex it may be to realize, world peace must stand as a tangible goal and not something to be thought of as a mere utopian ideal or intellectual exercise.

It's utopian to think that most American children will master the Common Core standards immediately.

It is probably utopian to think that needless partisanship could be eliminated on other issues if we could provide people with better information about them.

David Bruns's Irradiance is a complex and thought - provoking look at a seemingly utopian world that hides a sinister truth.

Machines That Think duly confirmed for me that there is precious little that is new in our current debates and that we have been rehearsing these anxieties (and, conversely, utopian fantasies) for a very long time.

Indie authors spend way too much time in utopian thinking about how Amazon should do this or would be better if it worked that way.

No. 4) I never said, nor do I think, the USA is «utopian».

It's an example of Nintendo's cute, utopian thinking.

The methods of teaching developed at the BMC — such as an emphasis on interpretation and dialogue in the form of the student critique (or «crit»)-- are still present in many of our most advanced art schools; the language of interdisciplinarity began at BMC and the mixture of disciplines and mediums gave way to what is largely regarded as the first «happening»; and the aspirations of intentional communities, utopian ways of thinking, bridging the gap between art and life, and the creation of a counter-culture that are characteristic of American culture in the 1960s all flourished at the college in the preceding decades.