Nevertheless, according to the louder
quietism we have in mind, the RKR problem does have a solution of a certain kind.
I call it semantic
quietism. According to it, vague predicates do have a range of application relative to soritical domains, and, with a touch of Chrysippian silence, we can use sets to model that phenomenon.
He covers the life of p, the dominant sense of being, and on the
quietism of the stranger.
He explains the distinction that "where adaptive rhetorics equate citizenship with personal responsibility and political
quietism, activist rhetorics encourage hopeful, communalist action toward the creation of a more equitable world" (p.
Spinoza's reason de jure of the state for Cohen is a morally void "political
quietism" that values forms of sovereign authority that protect and preserve scientific research and contemplation.
Certainly it is feasible to go with Freeman's claim that "Blake did not see evangelical
quietism or political activism as offering a viable strategy for the ongoing reformation of Christianity and society--for, in his view, the corruption of religion went too deep." But it is harder to take the leap with Freeman, or perhaps harder to follow him on his leap, when he argues that "nothing less than an apocalyptic transformation of the mind could redeem the imagination" (141).
Tishken therefore dismisses the allegations of "
quietism" and impassivity levelled against some African churches during the colonial and apartheid era as missing the point.
This is no doubt why, in an unsparing critique of Butler's work published in the New Republic in 1999, Martha Nussbaum charged that Butler's views would most likely lead her young feminist readers to political "
quietism and retreat."
Sistani's
Quietism means religiously motivated insulation from political affairs, reflecting doubt that mere mortals can set up or run a truly Muslim state.
The path that Jesus chose to walk led to the cross and the resurrection as a political alternative to both insurrection and
quietism.
One academic traced the passivity in the face of challenges to the Muslim religious establishment--like the movement to squash Kenya's constitutionally mandated Kadhi courts--to the tradition of Sunni
quietism.
Alec McHoul discerned in Vineland "60s nostalgic
quietism," a yearning for the lost salad days of free love and drugs with little concern for the political challenges of the era (1990, 98).
This theology of
quietism functions as a theodicy to justify the goodness of the sovereign and law enforcement, given the presence of moral and institutional evil in the world.
In future research it could be illuminating to situate rastriya kirtan alongside its more widespread and explicitly religious cousin, Varkari kirtan, particularly in light of the Varkaris' reputation for political
quietism, which concerned some early Maharashtrian nationalists.
