The decision to pare down books is provoking a practical intellectual debate among writers, publishers and archivists, and among its most provocative aspects is whether this sort of slice-and-dice Web publishing is an early step toward eliminating paper versions of some books.
Here was one of Crowley's favorite notions ("Nothing is true; everything is permitted,"), by way of Nietzsche, but Bangs brought it out of occult Thelemist incomprehensibility and into the question of discovering a practical intellectual justification for the satisfaction of every appetite.
And if Barney Frank has decided he'd now rather be happy translating rational policy into reality as a practical public intellectual, away from Capitol Hill — well, he's entitled.
2. Relatedly, as a practical matter intellectual scratch-pads — approximate version of what we really believe, but stripped down to be tractable — are what one uses for applied economic analysis all the time.If I want to ask what the effects of some shock will be, it rarely makes sense to demand that the analysis always go all the way back to the intertemporal choices of optimizing agents.
I was working mostly working on collage back then, in a practical and intellectual sense.
The smart people are the ones who know how to do it — this is the practical intellectual currency of our age.
Against the dominion of capitalist profiteers and the top-down cult of technocratic expertise, it aimed to put practical, intellectual and spiritual means of self-determination into the hands of the people.
The courses would be designed by wilderness experts, environmental scientists and artists and would be focused on improving our understanding of nature and its practical, intellectual and emotional importance in our lives.
The idea that drives Wilkerson's film is a powerful one, namely, that everyone's private life and family traditions are inseparable from politics, from ideology, from history — and that the unwillingness to do the practical, intellectual, and emotional work to find out the specifics of those connections and to face up to them is both a form of privilege and a perpetuation of injustice.
Although philosophers have self-consciously engaged in ethical theorizing since the days of the ancient Greeks, they have not given much thought to what it is that makes certain kinds of ethical reflection distinctly theoretical as opposed to other, more practical intellectual pursuits.
Yet now, every stage of art education combines a practical and an intellectual approach.
