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Chinese leaders and strategic
thinkers
(groups that do not always overlap) often talk of China’s aversion to the disorderliness of democracy.
Ideas of reform emerged periodically among small groups of clergy and intellectuals over the past century, but new
thinkers
and writers are bringing broad reform ideas to large audiences.
How many Christians know that Jesus is revered by Muslims as a prophet, or that it was through Islam that Christian
thinkers
in the eleventh century relearned the importance of Aristotle and Plato?
If liberal philosophers are of limited guidance in dealing with our enemies, perhaps one of the 20th century's most illiberal
thinkers
can help.
These
thinkers
– often imprecisely called “Federalists” – refer to the Constitution as a necessary step towards a European federation.
The term “capitalism” used to mean an economic system in which capital was privately owned and traded; owners of capital got to judge how best to use it, and could draw on the foresight and creative ideas of entrepreneurs and innovative
thinkers.
Some thinkers, most notably Max Weber, floated the idea that capitalism must be sustained by a value system that could not initially be created from within.
As a result,
thinkers
today are far more likely to get caught expressing “unsanctioned” ideas than they ever were in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, when underground publications served as the main channel of free expression.
Back then, Muslim
thinkers
contrasted the decline of their own societies with Europe's dynamism, a particularly painful distinction in light of European successes in colonizing large parts of the Muslim world.
This training enabled them to compare the debased state of affairs of their time with the norms and aspirations of earlier generations of clerics and
thinkers.
The paradox here is that the open-minded reformism they espoused helped stir conservative trends among Islamic thinkers, who seized on the reformists' revival of Islamic norms to urge a return to the "purity" of the first Islamic societies.
Thus, a sharp, focused challenge to the assertions of religious orthodoxy has emerged in the work of such important
thinkers
as Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Abdelmajid Charfi (Tunisia), Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), and Mahmud Muhammad Taha (Sudan).
At best, Europeans could be America’s “cleaning ladies,” to use the indelicate analogy coined at the time by some neo-conservative
thinkers
during George W. Bush’s first term in office.
Likewise, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, may emphasize the specificity of “Russian civilization” in a manner evocative of nineteenth-century anti-Western thinkers; but many in the Russian elite still consider the European Union, despite its many weaknesses, the most civilized model of governance that exists.
Both of them – the two greatest
thinkers
that promoted the idea of the free market – were also moral philosophers.
The challenge ahead demands a concerted response from our deepest
thinkers
and most creative artists.
Finally, longer-term
thinkers
understand that a generation growing up alienated and angry in refugee camps, as several generations of Palestinians have done, is a generation of potential radicals.
On the international stage, large states try to make international rules, and often build their domestic legitimacy on their claims to be able to shape a larger world: they think in terms of what French
thinkers
call “harnessing globalization.”
The SDSN’s Leadership Council consists of dozens of top global
thinkers
and development leaders from rich and poor countries alike.
However, a small but increasing number of conservative
thinkers
- while not democrats - advocate a more pragmatic and conciliatory approach, essentially adopting the language that once worked so well for the now-beleaguered reformists.
Venture capitalists who fancy themselves global
thinkers
should likewise think long-term about the health of the world around them.
The Decline of the West RevisitedMADRID – Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, prophecies about the inexorable doom of what he called the “Faustian Civilization” have been a recurrent topic for
thinkers
and public intellectuals.
Hedgehogs are big-idea
thinkers
in love with grand theories: libertarianism, Marxism, environmentalism, etc.
It is the history of freedom, encompassing the stories and memories of ordinary people, dissidents, and independent
thinkers.
This impressive group of leaders and
thinkers
has worked tirelessly to assess the state of education worldwide, with an eye to identifying the particular challenges that confront different countries.
Montazeri, like today’s innovative Muslim thinkers, chose to remain open to alternate interpretations of the Quran, rather than becoming trapped by accepted tradition.
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network will support the new Global Partnership by creating a new Thematic Network on Data for Sustainable Development, which will bring together leading data scientists, thinkers, and academics from across multiple sectors and disciplines to form a center of data excellence.
Roman Catholic
thinkers
have been among the most vocal in invoking the “slippery slope” argument against the legalization of voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted dying.
In recent decades, we have experienced a second flowering of the individualism associated with such nineteenth-century
thinkers
as John Stuart Mill.
In the latter category, even well-considered ideas from the world’s most eminent
thinkers
can fall short.
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