On questions of social welfare jobs, income, health care, energy which don't immediately provoke a battle over irreconcilable values, he has given every indication of favoring activist government.
The answer is thus to reconcile the irreconcilable values of secrecy and accountability by guaranteeing both a strong authority of the government to prohibit leaks and an expansive right of others to disseminate information to the public.
On questions of social welfare — jobs, income, health care, energy — which don't immediately provoke a battle over irreconcilable values, he has given every indication of favoring activist government.
A whole host of studies, starting in 1996 with a landmark paper by Paul DiMaggio at Princeton University and his colleagues, have found Americans are not polarized into two rival camps divided by irreconcilable values.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, that alliances with dictators, mujahedeen and other tyrants are more costly in human life and resources than facing up to the confrontation of irreconcilable values and setting out to win.
Citizens United and its money-dominated "marketplace" political system frames a national conflict between two irreconcilable Constitutional values: principles of wealth-based representation and corporatism versus principles of human freedom and equal citizenship.
That is to say, aesthetic values now stand in irreconcilable antagonism to religious values, transforming "value judgments (Werturteile) into judgments of taste (Geschmacksurteile) by which what is morally reprehensible becomes merely what is tasteless" [Weber 1915/1946, 342].
We would say that they were making incompatible readings of the same text because of strong and irreconcilable differences in values and beliefs and expectations.
"We cannot cede responsibility for the use of the technology we create particularly when we have reason to believe that it is being used to aid practices so irreconcilable to our values," the employees wrote.
As Victor's deeply frustrated wife (poignantly played by Susan Sylvester) points out, "there is such a thing as a moral debt," and the action centres on irreconcilable grievances about the value of self-sacrifice in a society which pits every person for themselves.
