10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHIGGISHLY»
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Whiggishly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics
A 'subject'—astrology, physics, classical philosophy, furniture design— may
undergo revolutions, but it gets its self-image from its present state, and its history
is necessarily written 'Whiggishly' as an account of its gradual maturation .
Alexander Groeschner, Mike Sandbothe, Colin Koopman, 2013
A “subject” – astrology, physics, classical philosophy, furniture design – may
undergo revolutions, but it gets its self- image from its present state, and its
history is necessarily written “Whiggishly” as an account of its gradual maturation.
This is ...
Christopher J. Voparil, Richard J. Bernstein, 2010
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Models of Discovery and Creativity
Here, in outline and whiggishly reconstructed,4 are the salient features. For our
purposes we need not worry about the fact that the idea of “science” as we now
have it, and of specific sciences such as physics, chemistry, and biology,
emerged ...
Joke Meheus, Thomas Nickles, 2009
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
A "subject" — astrology, physics, classical philosophy, furniture design — may
undergo revolutions, but it gets its self- image from its present state, and its
history is necessarily written "Whiggishly" as an account of its gradual maturation.
This is ...
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First Philosophy: God, Mind, and Freedom: Fundamental ...
A "subject" — astrology, physics, classical philosophy, furniture design — may
undergo revolutions, but it gets its self-image from its present state, and its history
is necessarily written "Whiggishly" as an account of its gradual maturation. This is
...
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian ...
This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology ...
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Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
And yet the thesis remains clear and provocative: secularization is not whiggishly
on the agenda of history, but is fundamentally the result of a self- distortion of
Christianity — primarily in Western Europe. It is linked with certain fatal historical
...
Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Craig J. Calhoun, 2010
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The Annals of the Parish: And The Ayrshire Legatees
Other passages from the same letter are worth quoting — " It is curious enough,
that although from my youth upwards I have ever been a Tory, yet all my personal
friends among the magnates are Whigs, or Whiggishly inclined. * * * I fear my ...
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An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... s. llywodraeth y Chwigiaid, chwiglywiaeth Whiggery, hwig'-ge-ri, l s. defwriaeth,
Whiggism, hwig'-ism, j ehwigiaeth, egwyddorion y Chwigiaid [iaidd Whiggishly,
hwig'-gish-li, ad. yn chwig- Whigling, hwig'-ling, s. Chwigyn, Chwig- iedyn [deby ...
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J.R. McCulloch: A Study in Classical Economics
... Edinburgh, 1856, p. gob. 1 Indeed he told Thomson that 'to have the reputation
of being Whiggishly inclined was all but min to any man'. 5 See, e.g. the issue of
December 18, 1820. 6 22 III. McCULLOCH AND THE PRESS 1. The Scotsman.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHIGGISHLY»
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Whiggishly is used in the context of the following news items.
Book review: High Minds: the Victorians and the Birth of Modern …
So, this is a selective, metropolitan, political and largely masculine history, Whiggishly endorsing the view of constant improvement. Overall it is an accurate ... «The Independent, Oct 13»
Tessa Hadley
Individual stories are cemented together with Whiggishly optimistic statements of progress. Hrotsvit 'cast an eye back over recent history, no doubt hoping that ... «London Review of Books, Sep 13»
Let's move to Stroud, Gloucestershire
But the town itself is far more spit and sawdust, albeit with a shaggy, artsy, Whiggishly radical edge, all fairtrade, buy local. Goodness knows what the BNP ... «The Guardian, Aug 13»
