Besides, people are brainwashed by a relentless propaganda machine orchestrated by four state-television channels, two radio stations and several newspapers propounding the idea of a "golden age".
The star-spangled vision comes back The governor who gave away the store Reprints Related items Charlemagne: Divide and rule Apr 24th 2003Robert Kagan, a neo-conservative writer living in Brussels, says "One finds Britain's finest minds propounding...conspiracy theories concerning the 'neo-conservative' (read: Jewish) hijacking of American foreign policy.
He is propounding some sensible policies on crime, but for much of the campaign he has been aloof, relying on his already high profile to work for him by proxy: "Boris" was the candidate rather than the actual Boris.
Propounding what he calls Ligeti's law, he says, "Artists who become famous are no good because they have no time to be good".As notes towards an acceptance speech, this sounds less than grateful.
The 19th century saw the emergence of composer-critics (Carl Maria von Weber, Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt), versatile artists with literary proclivities who were not, to be sure, propounding comprehensive theories or systems of thought.
Because Johannes Kepler is best remembered for his revolutionary astronomical work, discovering basic laws of planetary motion and consistently propounding the idea that the Sun, not Earth, exists at the center of our solar system, even at the threat of being persecuted as a heretic, few know that he also is often credited with authoring the first science fiction text.
He is approached by a mysterious "stranger" who suborns him into altering the record, preying on his sense of his inadequacies, propounding the flattering but dangerous philosophy that: "In writing of things as they should have been you are letting truth into history.
Not the least unfortunate aspect of his remarks is that they will be used to attack, and to attempt to invalidate, the central thesis of our revered naturalist father-figure, one he has increasingly been propounding: that the soaring growth of the world's population is a terrible threat to the world itself.
The dispute between scientific realists and antirealists, though often associated with conflicting ontological attitudes toward the unobserved (and perhaps unobservable) entities ostensibly postulated by some scientific theories, primarily concerns the status of the theories themselves and what scientists should be seen as trying to accomplish in propounding them.
In propounding this view which Croce, though he formulated it less clearly and precisely, basically shared Collingwood set in motion a controversy concerning knowledge and explanation in history that was central to much subsequent discussion.
Appealing to the intrinsic "queerness" of moral properties as contrasted with natural ones, some theorists, notably the Australian-born philosopher J.L. Mackie, have denied their existence altogether, propounding an error theory of moral discourse.
