It is characterized, said Mr. O'Dea, "by the primacy of idea over technique".
At the heart of the dispute was papal primacy — the idea that the pope be considered a sort of supreme leader of all Christians — as well as doctrinal disagreements.
I've always treasured that because it says a lot about Pinter's reliance on dramatic intuition and Stoppard's belief, at that time, in the primacy of ideas.
The curious thing is that this temperament can at moments be more practical than its liberal opposite, or than its pragmatic-conservative twin, since it rightly concedes the primacy of ideas and passions, rather than interests and practicalities, in men's minds.
The letters also allow him to clear up a common misconception about the primacy of his idea of negative liberty, "freedom from interference".
According to Călinescu, Cerna's work stated the primacy of "natural ideas" over reasoning, and concluded that "ideas have the purpose of signaling the problematic tensions of the soul".
However, Hegel had thought in idealist terms, putting ideas in the forefront, whereas Marx sought to rewrite dialectics in materialist terms, arguing for the primacy of matter over idea.
His use of the first person introduces that other most vital, always radical idea: the primacy of the individual perception.
The shift is both fundamental and pernicious.Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper based their appeals to liberty on the primacy of rational thought and the free competition of ideas.
His successor, Pope Gregory VII, was opposed to the idea of primacies, and the matter of the papal privilege for Canterbury went nowhere.
