principled, sensible, dogmatic, technocratic, rational, conciliatory, hardheaded, levelheaded, forthright, idealistic, nuanced, doctrinaire, statesmanlike, businesslike, tactful, commonsensical, dispassionate, shrewd, thoughtful, clearheaded, practical, confrontational, philosophical, centrist, straightforward, humanistic, cynical, compassionate, unsentimental, resolute, idealist, undogmatic, assertive, sincere, constructive, farsighted, visionary, maximalist, empathetic, rationalistic, uncompromising, agreeable, simplistic, moralistic, minded, individualistic, canny, liberalist, whiggish, enlightened, ideological, problem solver, naive, prudent, realistic, unbending, dirigiste, forceful, intransigent, circumspect, calculative, collegial, articulate, proactive, reformable, conscientious, deontological, philosophic, populist, paternalistic, facilitative, magnanimous, urbane, uncorrupt, strident, persuasive, expedient, openminded, pollyannaish, conservative, progressive, isolationist, equalitarian, absolutist, defeatist, unpolitical, astute, cautious, altruistic, blinkered, apolitical, empiricist, pugnacious, particularist, honest, universalistic, panglossian, sagacious, interventionist, amenable, amiable, myopic, analytic, anthropology, deconstruction, elaboration, mediations, pragmatics, semiotics, structuralism, structuralist, structuralists, theorizing, ability, adaptations, aesthetic, analysis, analytics, anatomists, annotation, annotations, awarenesses, utilitarian, consequentialist, voluntarist, axiological, formalistic, normative, anthropocentric, epistemological, jurisprudential, legalistic, soteriological, dramaturgical, ethical, heuristic, narratological, particularistic, teleological, welfarist

dewey, james, john dewey, matter-of-fact, william james

hard-nosed, pragmatical