The task for those who cherish freedom is to reimagine it – through an ethos of criticism combined with compassion and ceaseless self-awareness – in our own irreversibly mixed and highly unequal societies and the larger interdependent world.
Cohen's 'egalitarian ethos' was criticized by various authors, the main criticism being that the extension of principles of justice to the individual/social life implies an impediment to individual freedom.
At the same time, the rapid growth of higher education after 1945, together with its expansive ethos of inquiry and criticism, fostered both insight and oversight as public values.
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder" ("Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe," Philosophy and Social Criticism, 21 (5) (1995): 6, translation modified; reprinted in Kearney 1996).
Young people have also been among the most involved in the nationwide Occupy movement, whose members have leveled pointed criticism at the capitalist ethos and often called for a more equal distribution of American wealth.
The demand for an apology "is consistent with the whole thought-reform ethos, which focuses on confession, self-criticism and apology" before the person can be freed, said Robert J. Lifton, professor of psychology and psychiatry at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Both Meantime and Camden Town Brewery have attracted criticism for abandoning their small brewer ethos by accepting takeovers from vast multinational corporations.
The city, eager to demonstrate a progressive ethos, gave assent to the project despite heavy criticism that the administration was proving unable to protect Québec's historic area because the building replaced two historic houses.
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In his book "The Right Stuff" (1979), which told how the original astronauts reflected the coolness-under-pressure ethos of the test pilot, Tom Wolfe wrote that Mr. Kraft's criticism fueled NASA engineers' simmering resentment of the astronauts' status as pop-culture heroes.
