Taking a political stand on the basis of abstract moral codes, or absolute values, both of which hinge on natural law, describes the typical conservative position of defending privilege, upholding the constructs as they have purportedly always existed, and even refusing to see such ideas, practices or ethical determinants as the products of culture that they really are.
It brings to mind the discourse surrounding the 1% in the wake of the Occupy movement, where the shadowy figures at the top who purportedly oppress are always presented as a kind of abstract idea, a politicized construction that never truly generates a human face or contains any obvious links to reality.
It brings to mind the discourse surrounding the 1% in the wake of the Occupy movement, where the shadowy figures at the top who purportedly oppress are always presented as a kind of abstract idea, a politicised construction that never truly generates a human face or contains any obvious links to reality.
"If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea," Winston Churchill once purportedly remarked, "she must always choose the open sea".
For the non-do-it-yourselfer, ads on eBay and elsewhere offer purportedly unlocked phones, but "unlocking doesn't always work as well as people think," said Mr. Schlueter of Cingular.
From the beginning, it was always an idea, an ideology that purportedly liberated the US government from the fetters of domestic and international law.
Violence purportedly carried out in the name of God, she holds, is nearly always in reality caused by other factors – political, social, racial and economic.
It is one thing for committed religious thinkers to insist that scripture must always and everywhere apply literally, but it is ludicrous for purportedly objective scholars to do so.
When Rihanna got back together with Chris Brown after he'd badly beaten her, Doyle points out, she had neither the support of the Brown stans (who'd always blamed her for their hero's downfall) nor of the purportedly pro-woman crowd who berated her for setting a bad example.
The Dorylaimia was always observed to split off first when nematode taxa were analysed alongside the purportedly closest metazoan relative, the Nematomorpha.
Perhaps metaphysics has not always been, and perhaps it is not always even now an attempt to provide foundations or extensions of science, purportedly forged in the same mold as science itself, and thus in uneasy balance between rivalry and apologetics with respect to science.
