Sentences with phrase «thought about liberty»

The historian Quentin Skinner and the philosopher Philip Pettit have in recent years revived a distinctively republican tradition of thought about liberty.

I believe that there is certainly a sense in which we fail to understand some features of our contemporary situation through not having a grasp on the neo-Roman way of thinking about liberty.

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«That was honest - to - God college beer money that I gave up to be associated with Cato, so you know about my commitment to the cause of liberty,» he said during a forum at the think tank last year.

I have a peculiar framework for thinking about the American idea of liberty, which I first developed for a class, but which I'm now hoping to develop into a book.

RELEVANT looks at the recent ban on burqas in France, and what that says about religious liberty and how Christians should think about different practices in different faiths.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

Many pastors are concerned about the religious liberty issues they see in the new health care bill, yet the White House seems to think this is a not a religious liberty issue.

They merely thought about their academic concept of liberty.

Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.

I pretty much agreed with most of what you have said and i think that the sinners prayer has been misused as a get out of Jail free card.A couple of things that people miss is that God is in charge.As soon as you offer yourself to God and accept Jesus Chris the holy spirit has liberty to work on you.Because he loves us he will discipline us so that we do repent of our sins.The downside of living a walk like that you are a hypocrite until you admit your sinfulness the holy spirit can not help us because of our pride.The second part was you talking about disciplining the flesh personally you cant discipline that which is corrupt our hearts are deceitfully wicked we need new hearts no amount of effort on our part will transform our hearts that is the work of the holy spirit he changes our hearts so that we no longer desire to sin we would rather serve the Lord with all our hearts instead.brentnz

I think that Americans, blessed as we are with security and liberty that many others in the world can only dream about, do not always remember how fragile life is in every time and place.

How should Christians think about religious liberty?

«When it comes to challenges to religious liberty, the Johnson Amendment is just about the least important issue I can think of,» said John Inazu, a professor at Washington University School of Law.

If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door for even more destructive creativity by humans.

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

There is often excellent blogging in more specialist spaces - academic, scientific, liberties / legal, environmental - which sometimes the political blogs pick up on, but there isn't that much linkage, and there might sometimes be some value in thinking specifically about the linking spaces.

We look forward to parliaments that have the mettle to be open about their decisions, the modesty to be realistic about their capacity, the courage to think and act for the long - term, and the vigilance to defend our liberties and freedom in a fast changing world.

Machiavelli fully endorses Livy's assumption that the fundamental question to ask, when thinking about political liberty, is about the distinction between freedom and servitude, and he further agrees that the arbitrary power wielded by the early kings of Rome left the citizen body living as slaves.

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«If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country,» Sanders said.

«What marks us out from the past is our failure, in a revolutionary time, to think afresh about liberty, drawing upon ideas from the past and applying them to the challenges we face,» he warns.

I think people have got to remember that the relationship between Britain and America and between a British prime minister and an American president is built on the things that we share, the same enduring values about the importance of liberty, opportunity, the dignity of the individual.

``... I think that any time you have a situation where something happens again and again and again, and it happens on the part of people who should know better, and it happens on the part of people who should be able to engage in a decent and reasonable calculus about whether or not it's worth going to jail and being separated from your liberty for a few thousand dollars, that something is broken in the system,» he continued a bit later.

I took the liberty to linkt to it and write about it on our Swedish lchf.se blogg since I think a lot of the LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) community in Sweden needs to read it.

Now you'll have to forgive the delay in posting this... they went on the date a week ago, and I know there have since been some dramatic developments, however I don't feel at liberty to tell you about them... If one of the others sees fit, perhaps he or she will fill you in on what happened next... But for now, it's time to hear what Rebound Gal thought of the date.

It doesn't help that Chris Columbus directed «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone» (2001) and «Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets» (2002) because it affords him the liberty of repurposing ideas and techniques he learned on those films, rather than thinking anew about how a modern movie with mythological characters should look and feel.

Upon looking at some poor reviews that were posted online and other car web sites listing wrong information about a wanted truck at liberty Ford Solon, Oh, I thought against buying from Liberty Ford.

The Spirit Level will change the way you think about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, especially if you live in the United States.

The shape was inspired by my thoughts on the statue of liberty; she represents freedom for so many but what about us (African Americans)?

I don't think that the aesthetics of the environmentalism movement should be the main driver of people's decisions with regard to the environment, any more than the aesthetics of libertarianism should decide what people do about their civil liberties.

When I think about these men and women who took an oath saying that they would die for our country in defense of our liberty, we as lawyers are going to need to answer our own oath, our own calls as a profession and help these veterans.

It also pursued its long - standing mission to support «democratic literacy», the ability to critically think about rights and civil liberties issues.