dogmatisms

And the dogmatisms that say “we have to support the welfare state, workplace regulations and environmental laws until capitalism is abolished” or “we should vote Republican to keep taxes down and preserve school choice” are as much after-the-fact rationalizations of this feeling as they are honest attempts at practical assessment.

Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45 2009

But, as noted, I was encouraged to see the shedding of old dogmatisms, the confessions of uncertainty, the tentative discussions of how to move forward.

Old Home Day 2008

But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals 'dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

John Ridley: Frank Rich, the New York Times, and Yet More Lefty Soft Bigotry 2008

But, as noted, I was encouraged to see the shedding of old dogmatisms, the confessions of uncertainty, the tentative discussions of how to move forward.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

Something about the ability to rethink into new dogmatisms that is moving?

swoonrocket jms 2007

In a world of multiple such dogmatisms, we are then destined to clash and seek supremacy.

LET'S HEAR IT FOR MORAL RELATIVISM 2006

In the other direction Liberals have pointed to Conservative orthoxies as "one-size-fits-all" dogmatisms, and that reliance on, say, the so-called "market forces" to solve the problem of child nutrition and education are inappropriate and cause even more harm.

Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism 2006

Talk is fluid, tentative, continually “in further search and progress”; while written words remain fixed, become idols even to the writer, found wooden dogmatisms, and preserve flies of obvious error in the amber of the truth.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated also from the narcissistic self-obsessions of postmodern spirituality, what kind of world might a universal, evolutionary spirituality—or a truly twenty-first century religion—create?

A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated also from the narcissistic self-obsessions of postmodern spirituality, what kind of world might a universal, evolutionary spirituality—or a truly twenty-first century religion—create?

Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005