Yet, like Sartre's, Marcel's plays staged the specific problems of the age as he saw them, e.g., how the rise of technology brings about a reductive attitude to the world and especially to other human beings, the atrocities of the century, and the moral disorientation of modern individuals.
The lack of experience does not trouble me so much as Fiorina's reductive attitude toward her opponent on a personal level and her complete and shameful obfuscation of Boxer's record in the Senate.
Queerness, in comparison to gayness or lesbianism, rejects reductive attitudes.
The avant-garde Parisian group the Situationist International (1957 72) critiqued post-war urbanization and the rise of spectacular society: reductive functionalism, government power, conservative bourgeois attitudes, modernist town planning, commodity fetishism, advertising, passivized leisure, and personality cults.
For example, several projects pursued by philosophers in recent years have attempted to provide a reductive account of the semantic content of propositional attitudes that is entirely naturalistic (i.e., an account that only appeals to straightforward causal-physical relations and properties).
The New York Times recently called Trump's racism a "reductive approach to ethnicity," and said that Trump's attitude toward women is "complex" and "defies simple categorization," as if sexism is suddenly as complicated as string theory.
Davidson, at the time of this early paper, seemed to favor a reductive treatment of intentions, including intentions for the future, in terms of pro-attitudes, associated beliefs, and other potential mental causes of action.
But that, again, is only to give voice to a reductive impulse, and in the brief ensuing discussion he shows, once again, that in some cases, an attitude of this kind may emerge as particularly salient.
Already in the first statement of his account he points out that it is "reductive in spirit" (Bratman 1999: 108) and clarifies that the core "claim is that shared intention consists primarily of attitudes of individuals and their interrelations" (1999: 129).
It never feels reductive.
