praxis

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Self-denial as radical praxis, the Leveller impulse, tastes of millenarian gloom -- and this current on the Left shares an historical wellspring with the neo-puritan fundamentalism and moralic reaction of our decade.

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  1. noun Practical application or exercise of a branch of learning.
  2. noun Habitual or established practice; custom.

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  • In the dialectical relationship between theory and praxis, political line and praxis are not developing accordingly, in proletarian struggle. —  Anarkismo.net
  • But I'd go further still: fiction is my way of thinking about and relating to the world; if I don't write I'm not engaged in any praxis, and lose all purchase. —  The Guardian World News
  • So if the emergents are willing to call a spade a spade when it comes to praxis, then I think its a good —  DeVine Theology
  • All of Christian reality is reduced to politico-social liberation praxis (action). —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Self-denial as radical praxis, the Leveller impulse, tastes of millenarian gloom -- and this current on the Left shares an historical wellspring with the neo-puritan fundamentalism and moralic reaction of our decade. —  home
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  1. Medieval Latin prāxis, from Greek prāxis, from prāssein, prāg-, to do.

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  1. from New Latin praxis, from Greek πρᾶξις, a doing, action, practice, condition, from πράσσ, σ1ειν, make, do: see practic.
 

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