Sentences with phrase «world pragmatism»

However, coming from a commercial background, I'm equally passionate about emphasising real world pragmatism.

Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at Simon Fraser University, called the plan a prudent mix of sound economics and real - world pragmatism that creates incentives for emissions reductions.

Not exact matches

Perhaps those who equate sleep with laziness or lack of dedication can be convinced of the benefits of sleep by looking at what's going on in a world that is the ultimate in pragmatism, where performance and winning are everything: sports.

For now, in the clean - energy world, Buffett's follow - the - money pragmatism has the upper hand.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

Democracy As Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism In a Globalizing World, edited by Sor - Hoon Tan and John Whalen - Bridge.

This and similar definitions of «ethics» which leave the matter in the simple world of pragmatism and «science» (whatever she means by that) we still have language which can not automatically release us from the issue of eugenics.

It is [defined by] the pragmatism, common sense, and basic sanity of the British people, worlds apart from highfalutin sermonising».

For instance, many conflicts in the world today can be best understood outside the paradigm of pragmatism and rationality.

What the world needs now is technological pragmatism, not green fundamentalism, says the man who taught a generation how to drop out

In spite of (or perhaps because of) the challenging world in which we live, young scientists aspire to keep a healthy balance of idealism and pragmatism.

She is pure pragmatism in a tough world with few options at her disposal, and she is doing what she must to save her own skin and protect those she loves.

Lily Boyd was meant to become a faerie doctor, a warden of humans and a keeper of balance, until disbelief and pragmatism led her away from the hidden world and into a mundane life.

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

This, of course, is a play on Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's famous quote during the Second World War, which, depending on one's view, was a clever expression of caution, flexibility, and pragmatism, or the worst example of doublespeak ever uttered by any Canadian politician.

Pragmatism in the fast moving world of technology is either the smartest move Microsoft can make, or the worst.

Sadly, Canada's pragmatism seems lacking in so many other places around the world.

They see the world as opportunity and see pragmatism as a philosophy.