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idea and freedom
The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.
Other Cubans supported the idea, because they longed for what they considered higher development and democratic freedom.
Indeed, the ethical value of ( negative ) freedom is grounded on the idea that conscience cannot be coerced, and is thus the ultimate standard of morality.
The unifying stance for them is the idea of " creating and maintaining the freedom of individuals ".
This National Socialism was a form of state socialism that rejected the " idea of boundless freedom " and promoted an economy that would serve the whole of Germany under the leadership of the state.
" Similarly, the idea of freedom as freedom from politics is a notion that developed in modern times.
This is opposed to the idea of freedom as the capacity to " begin anew ," which Arendt sees as a corollary to the innate human condition of natality, or our nature as " new beginnings and hence beginners.
The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote praising " the idea of a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ".
Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".
The novel also acts as a terrifying realization of some of Kant's fundamental ideas ; Sartre uses the idea of the autonomy of the will ( that morality is derived from our ability to choose in reality ; the ability to choose being derived from human freedom ; embodied in the famous saying " Condemned to be free ") as a way to show the world's indifference to the individual.
That idea is included in Capitalism and Freedom, in which he declared that economic freedom is not only desirable in itself but is also a necessary condition for political freedom.
Many such people believed in the idea that the United States is by definition benevolent, that the extension of its power, influence and hegemony is an extension of benevolence and brings freedom to those people subject to that hegemony.
If the idea of absolute freedom and entire self-knowledge is absent from this kind of idea of God's acts in time, then God Himself is ( to express the idea anthropomorphically ) becoming something new, or discovering something new about Himself with each new moment, just as we are.
He defended his actions by stating that he believed in the goal of aiding the Contras, whom he saw as freedom fighters, and said that he viewed the Iran-Contra scheme as a " neat idea.
( But this was hardly a new idea ; Roger Williams ( 1603 – 1683 ), the Puritan-turned-Baptist founder of Rhode Island, had established such a wall at the state level about a century before Jefferson was born, and extended freedom of religion to Quakers and Jews.
Pope Pius IX had condemned the idea of abstract religious freedom.
Because of this, each has been described as believing that human and God, regardless of the all immense difference, are sharing something of great importance that can bind them together: " You've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull.

idea and for
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.
Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??
Is the world better for having this idea thrust upon it??
`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.
As he made plans for the new Taliesin, Wright also got on paper his conception of a cathedral of steel and glass to house a congregation of all faiths, and the idea for a planetarium with a sloping ramp.
Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.
And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.
Were any of us interested enough in the idea to do it for her, by proxy so to speak??
When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
( To avoid any possible excuse for a dripping parade through your house, it is a good idea to have a telephone extension near the pool as well as a direct outdoor route between the pool, and the parking area.
It wants to interest builders and oil companies in the idea of including its facility in their new home projects, by financing and installing the storage, piping and meters, and leasing these for 15 years, with renewal options, to a strong oil company.
This whole development is certain to be of interest to the readers, for the idea has so often been mentioned, somewhat wistfully.
He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.
) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.
The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.
The simple, naked idea of one man chasing another is of its nature better fitted for the film than it is for any other form of fiction.

idea and theatre
The company defends the idea that theatre is nowadays the best space for audiences to experience genuine fears.
Central to Alexander ’ s urbanism was the idea of teatro or urban theatre whereby his urban interventions became the grand settings or showpieces appropriate to the dignity of Rome and the Head of the Catholic Church.
" Carte and his manager, George Edwardes ( later famous as manager of the Gaiety Theatre ), introduced several innovations at the theatre including free programme booklets, the orderly " queue " system with numbered tickets for the pit and gallery ( an American idea ), tea served at the interval and a policy of no tipping for cloakroom or other services.
He closed the theatre and had every intention to close it for good, until a friend agreed that the venture was a silly idea.
In Russia and much of Eastern Europe repertory theatre is based on the idea that each company maintains a number of productions which are performed on a rotating basis.
The idea for the creation of the present theatre dates from 1838, when it became apparent that the then-existing Teatro Comunale di via Emilia ( in dual private and public ownership ) was no longer suitable for staging opera.
The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in 19th-century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience.
A leitmotif (), sometimes written leit-motif, is a musical term ( though occasionally used in theatre or literature ), referring to a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
This theatre idea was started in 1977 by Jos Bours and Marlies Hautvast, who when they first starting creating plays at the Stut Theatre, realized this kind of community-theatre had a complete different approach from " theatre-in-education.
The Disney Corporation, which restored the theatre in the 1990s, actively promotes the idea that Thomas haunts the theatre and makes accommodations for her presence.
But Craig had no illusions about Pryde's dramatic ability: as an actor he never really existed: but the idea of acting, the idea of the theatre – or rather the smell of the place, meant a lot to him.
Looking back in 1902, Debussy explained the protracted genesis of his only finished opera: " For a long time I had been striving to write music for the theatre, but the form in which I wanted it to be was so unusual that after several attempts I had given up on the idea.
Commentators often take pride in the idea that all Chinese theatre styles are similar but with minor variations on the pan-Chinese music-theatre tradition and the basic features or principles are consistent from one local performance form to another.
The government used theatre to promote the idea of be loyal to the emperor and love the kingdom ( 忠君愛國 ).
In 1968, the idea for a new opera house in Paris first came from the composer Pierre Boulez, Maurice Béjart, along with Jean Vilar, a believer in the need for popular theatre.
Henderson hired a new theatre manager, Vivian van Damm, who developed the idea of the Revudeville — a programme of continuous variety that ran from 2. 30pm until 11pm.
Eventually the US and British political leadership made the decision to commit to an invasion of France in early 1944, but with a lower-priority Italian campaign reflecting Roosevelt's desire to keep U. S. troops active in the European theatre during 1943 and his attraction to the idea of eliminating Italy from the war.
The show has been frequently staged in the London Palladium theatre, and in the 1950s and 1960s a television show based on the same idea, called Sunday Night at the London Palladium and hosted by many entertainers, including Bruce Forsyth, ran for over 20 years.
" He went on to say that he " had an idea of a girl who was part of a traveling theatre and her mother getting sick and having to go off the road ", and mentioned that McKean preferred to have a circus over a theatre " because it was more interesting visually.
Modern theatre, on the other hand, uses the technique in such a manner that the characters use each line to add depth to a shared idea or metaphor.

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