Sentences with phrase «truth by democracy»

In this truth by democracy is 50 % good enough?

Not exact matches

«The fact that we even have to clarify this is proof of how democracy continues to be fractured by people who manipulate and fabricate the truth,» he said.

Comments made by Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed in February sound mighty relevant in the light of Cambridge Analytica: «It is acutely clear from the groundswell of consumer voices over recent months that people are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of digital on well - being, on democracy — and on truth itself,» Weed said.

They also argue that the amnesty the South African government granted to perpetrators of human rights under apartheid in exchange for their testimony before the Truth Commission compromised justice and could be defended only if it were necessary for a transition to democracy, not by any idea of reconciliation.

It speaks publicly in secular, pluralistic democracies in such a way that its words can be heard and the truths they express can be engaged by everyone.

The manners appropriate for teachers and students in a democracy of worth are neither those of the classical authoritarian school, where it is presupposed that the schoolmaster knows the truth and is expected to inculcate it, nor those of the progressive school, which is built on the principle that truth is by definition what solves human problems.

An enduring and progressive democracy rests on common loyalty to a law of truth and right which is found and given, not constructed by human decision; and for the propagation and health of such democracy an educational system centered around this religious principle is required.

As John Paul II contends in his most recent encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, we must not «idolize» democracy by «democratizing» the truth on which democracy depends.

So if Tocqueville is right that the partial truth of democracy needs to be corrected by the partial truth of aristocracy to properly appreciate both who we are and what human liberty really is, then lots of political philosophy types need to look to the South more than they have.

A party, which is ahead of its time and espouses the truth, including philosophical truths, in theological language, as Marx would have said, can only end up by suffocating democracy.

Fox believed that men should be guided by the Inner Light, protested against formalism in religion, advocated an extreme democracy which would put men and women on a basis of equality, stressed simplicity in dress, food, and speech, opposed all participation in war, and insisted on truth - speaking.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

I touch on my recent Grand Solar Minimum debunking videos; on a new book that I am reading by Hector MacDonald called «Truth; How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality», and also on Cambridge Analytica's successful hacking of democracy based on deep and dark manipulations of the on average 5,000 data points on each persons Facebook profile that they illegally hijacked from a Russian psychologist; as exposed by the guy from Canada with pink hair.

Sure, the script gives us a speech from Post editor Ben Bradlee — played here by a rather trim Tom Hanks — about the importance of publishing, and speaking truth to power, as safeguards of democracy.

Also represented are four New Yorkers: Jane Jacobs, a journalist, author, and activist who fought and stopped the Robert Moses Lower Manhattan Expressway; Amy Goodman who is an investigative journalist considered a «guardian of truth» by Rolling Stone magazine, and the host and producer of the news program Democracy Now!

Science is not democracy where the truth is determined by majority vote.

However when speaking of «consensus» it is wise to remember that science is not a democracy where truth is determined by a majority.

Reading List: Innovation Nation, by John Kao; A Life Decoded, by J. Craig Venter; Science, Truth, and Democracy, by Philip Kitcher; Unscientific America, by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum; Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World, by Gary Hirshberg.

It is as if scientific truth equals the sum of all the papers produced on a scientific subject divided by their number, and that for truth and democracy to triumph, he just has to precis a sample of them, and distribute them between the categories of «worse...» or «better than previously thought», so that our minds can be made up by the law of averages.

Teen Vogue editor Phillip Picardi described the artifice as «proof of how democracy continues to be fractured by people who manipulate and fabricate the truth.»

Authored by Morna McDermott - A blog dedicated to democracy, public education, and the power of the imagination to fight corporate greed — if the truth sounds crazy it is because we have become too accustomed to falsehoods.