Spark Notes: It can be seen as a statement of the philosophical ideals that Thoreau's experiment [detailed in Walden] is meant to put into practice.
The original Erice Declaration of 1997 was a visionary statement of the achievable ideals for drug safety communication at the time, much of which remains potent and relevant today.
It has continued to serve as the prime statement of the Renaissance ideal of perfect humanity.
(For this line of thought, see Frankfurt 1987 and 2000, Nussbaum 1990 and 2000, Miller 1995, Wiggins 1991, Anderson 2000, and for an earlier statement of the sufficiency ideal, Walzer 1983).
Last, the writings on progress contain some of the most powerful statements of the Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and cosmopolitan justice.
Ostensibly a defence of Erasmus and his philological approach to the biblical text, this offers an important statement of humanist ideals, highly critical of the artificial linguistic universe generated by scholastic dialectic and insistent on the priority of Greek, "since it is from Greek that the rest of mankind has received every variety of knowledge".
Positioned below the World Trade Center and facing the Statue of Liberty, the field was a statement that "represented the ideals of this country, and money," Ms. Denes said, as well as "mismanagement, the use of the land, the misuse of the land, and world hunger".
After losing 84 people in the attack, its managers chose the Calatrava design as a statement of loftier ideals.
And why not cap it all with a magnificent new British bill of rights with a statement that not only enshrines the European convention on human rights, but comes complete with a bold statement of British ideals, including free speech and compassion, to enshrine the "best of British" which we hold in common.
These tracts constitute the century's most powerful and influential statement of pacifist ideals.
