I use the term "judicial
passivism" to identify another category of error: a court's wrongful failure to enforce constitutional rights and limits on governmental power.
policy decisions of others, and thus is inherently about
passivism. What
Continuity is not in fact an act of
passivism, but the acknowledgement of solid roots from which tall trees and strong branches are born.
Though he began to question judicial deference to administrative agencies--doctrines that he had helped elaborate--toward the end of his life, he remained too committed to judicial "restraint." Conservative lawyers of his generation naturally inclined to fighting the "activism" of Earl Warren and William Brennan, but the new battle is against the sort of "
passivism" that defers to legislative enactments like Obamacare and occupational licensing.
That ontology has five characteristic features, which I refer to as: smallism, physicalism, determinism,
passivism, and closure (Gorski 2015).
The Punjab politics became more dynamic in the early 20th century when both the communities came out from
passivism to activism.
In the final question, more difficult to understand, Solovyov emphasizes the failure of Danilevsky's nationalist determinism to explain how Strakhov and Solovyov can both be Russian Orthodox but subscribe to such different philosophies--Strakhov to what Solovyov deemed a synthesis of Western decadent mechanism and Buddhist
passivism, and Solovyov to a biblically rooted belief in the human need to discern a divine calling at every present moment and cooperate with it.
This judicial
passivism towards education marks a troubling new trend.
29-36): (1) '
passivism'--the idea that the behaviour of entities is determined by an external contingent force; included within this broad category are forms of essentialism, reductionism and social constructivism; (2) the Aristotelian teleological view of the behaviour of entities as being goal-directed; and (3) relational dispositionality, which Lie defends, in which entities have real dispositions to act in certain non-contingent ways, so that 'all being of nature [are] active...
I was struck by the fact that some of the books that the Nazis destroyed were on
passivism, and not just works by Jewish intellectuals like Freud.
Instead of promoting creative individuals, moved by a personal liberty and an active responsibility in the face of perceived challenges, it generates social
passivism and exaggerated expectations.