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Many of these
thinkers
were hostile to altruism, or even denied that it exists.
At that previous meeting, a panel of the world’s leading economic
thinkers
was challenged to answer this question: if an extra $50 billion were spent improving the state of the world, how could the money be allocated to achieve the most good possible?
Higgins’ experience as an academic and his status as an acclaimed poet undoubtedly give him an advantage over other heads of state, enabling him to hold his own with top
thinkers
in a way that few others can.
Though some scholars and
thinkers
are fit to be “leaders of the people,” a favorable environment is needed to coax them out of their ivory towers.
For them, and for current
thinkers
like the French economist Thomas Piketty, the economic world consists of two fundamental substances: capital and labor.
It seems wiser to heed modern-day Promethean
thinkers
such as the late Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and the 115 other tech leaders who in 2017 spoke out about the threat of weaponized AI and robotics.
Liberty’s Revolutionary MuseGreat social
thinkers
almost always start out as polarizing figures, admired by some and scorned by others, until their radical challenge to how we understand the world finally prevails.
Milton Friedman was a giant among modern social
thinkers
for at least two reasons.
More than 500 years after writing his famous treatise The Prince, Machiavelli has reemerged as one of Europe's most popular political
thinkers.
In fact, the ideals of eternal peace and Christian unity were identical in the minds of the early pan-European
thinkers.
Some Japanese and Korean strategic
thinkers
believe that China is intent not only on displacing the US as Asia’s leading power, but also on economic domination of the region.
In the ensuing decades – even as China grew and modernized – Western
thinkers
treated this self-indulgent delusion as an empirical certainty.
It might help if Western
thinkers
developed new analytical frameworks to help political leaders better comprehend China’s development model.
And yet, while bureaucratization of science has fueled concerns about its attractiveness to talented thinkers, we should not be overly pessimistic.
Early Confucian
thinkers
were writing in a world of small countries competing ruthlessly for territorial advantage.
Thus,
thinkers
such as Mencius, Confucius’s leading intellectual heir, argued that humane authorities should punish immoral rulers in other states who tyrannize their people.
According to early Confucian thinkers, a key task for rulers is to strive to improve a peoples’ happiness, which is itself grounded in a moral way of life.
Liu He is perhaps the least visible of the key economic
thinkers.
The Europe that inspires me is not the Europe of old warriors; it is the Europe of the
thinkers
and the traders.
At the European Council on Foreign Relations’ annual council meeting in Berlin last month, 250 former and current prime ministers, foreign ministers, policymakers, and
thinkers
convened to discuss the state of European affairs.
A remarkably creative and dedicated group of young religious and social
thinkers
and activists chose in the 1960’s and 1970’s – during the early days of Suharto’s secular New Order regime – to reject the idea of an Islamic state.
Not confined by any fixed orthodoxy, Indonesian Muslims have taken the historic step of welcoming dissident Muslim
thinkers
like the Pakistani Fazlur Rahman, the Palestinian Ismail al-Faruqi, and the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr, even when their ideas were unwelcome in their native lands.
And, in early April, leading
thinkers
and former policymakers met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the birthplace in 1944 of the International Monetary Fund and our dollar-centered international monetary system.
For
thinkers
and politicians that follow the road of the American philosopher John Rawls, democracy consists of and depends upon procedural justice.
True, liberal philosophers like Friedriech von Hayek or America's neo-conservatives were often among the most popular Western
thinkers
in Eastern Europe.
Future advances will require the interaction of laboratory research, clinical case studies, and the imagination of creative
thinkers.
In reality, the main trouble with the current Putin government in the eyes of its Western critics is that their friends and like-minded
thinkers
are no longer in the loop.
Leftist
thinkers
have often claimed that fascism was the last stage of capitalism.
Other Al Qaeda
thinkers
have expressed admiration for the ability of young men like Wael Ghonim to mobilize thousands of his fellow Egyptians by conveying his sincere desire for change and love of country.
One also regrets that not much is done in India to keep alive the philosophy and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, one of Asia’s few twentieth-century universal
thinkers.
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