That is, a story in which Palo Alto millionaires use their political influence to protect the value of a major capital investment, with generally negative distributional consequences, is not exactly antithetical to the general argument made in "Capital".
'A present person does not face obligations just because he would not be where he is today without certain past events.' 14 This is entirely true, but is orthogonal rather than antithetical to the original argument, which was about duties derived from fairness and justice, not history.
It's important for the poem's argument that two antithetical activities, suturing and wounding, should go on almost simultaneously, and that it's while the doctors are mending the broken bodies that other people are bringing in (like trophies) more and more sophisticated weapons.
What Wright correctly sees as the heart of meditation practice — the draining away of the stories we tell compulsively about each moment in favor of simply having the moment — is antithetical to the kind of evidentiary argument he admires.
I just have a sense that Crowe weakens her argument by choosing such deliberately antithetical images of the women's lot: as you sew, one might say, so shall you reap.
From Ben Franklin to John F. Kennedy to Justice Earl Warren, the argument has been much the same: Censorship is antithetical to democracy.
Haskell's argument is mounted on feminist principles that at first glance seem antithetical to a film widely regarded as prefeminist fluff.
It hardly resembles wartime rubble.The best argument against a one-time wealth tax in normal times is that it is antithetical to freedom.
And he had kind words for a justice whose conservative philosophy is antithetical to his own: he praised Justice Antonin Scalia as a "terrific writer" who made "really interesting arguments".
At this moment, Title IX is too often conscripted to serve purposes antithetical to the education of citizens in a democracy, in which disagreement, dissent, or disapproval should lead to argument, not to an infinite loop of institutional investigation.
This escalating mentality has deeply saddened me over the past year because, as a Christian, I think the arguments against public education -- which I will speak to in a second -- are antithetical to what Christianity and following Jesus is really about; moreover, I have been saddened because, as a teacher, I feel the arguments being leveled against public education have been misleading.
