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antinomy [an-tin-nom-ee] Noun pl -mies contradiction between two laws or principles that are reasonable in themselves [Greek anti- against + nomos law] antinomia, antinomy a real or apparent contradiction in a statute. — antinomic, antinomian, adj. See also: Law
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So by exploring and challenging "the virtue-commerce antinomy," Chan exposes both the classical core and virulent contemporary expression of unease or distress with acquisitive liberal democracy. Given this antinomy resulting from Cohen's overly conceptualized thinking about God, both Barth and Rosenzweig turned to a mode of theologizing based on revelation as a lived, personal encounter. The best art manages (as Dogville itself does) to fulfill the promise of the antinomy that Schiller saw as the very root of aesthetic experience and not surrender itself to exemplary (but relatively ineffectual) gestures. |
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