Sentences with phrase «like society as a whole»

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By reducing the potential for clone - like mindsets that traditional systems can incur, Trinkler hopes to enable future generations to not only think in unique ways, but also to build tools that are beneficial to the collective good of society as a whole.

This is funny since he only thinks there was a god because like most people that's what's been drummed into their heads by preachers and society as a whole....

On a macro level however, if you can convince enough people to be more like you and do acts of compassion and good, doesn't that help society as a whole, even if those acts are returned in kind?

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Speaking of the efficacy of a society as a whole, via its inherited social customs and the like, Whitehead makes the following point: «In the end nothing is effective except massively coordinated inheritance» (AI 64).

Therefore, a research university like the University of Berlin ought to include faculties of medicine, law, and theology in order to contribute to the well - being of society as a whole.

Hence, insofar as instantiations of Spirit, namely, ontological totalities of various kinds up to and including the universe as a whole, are structured like Whiteheadian societies, then absolute knowledge such as Hegel envisions as a result of his own philosophical system is metaphysically impossible.

Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...

Like Habermas, Luhmann believes that modern religion has largely lost its capacity to legitimate and unify the society as a whole.

Like the Society of Jesus as a whole, he threw himself into the Great Reform, which didn't seek any particular goals so much as pursue a general, utopian vision, a hoped - for fusion of the Spirit of Christ with Liberation, with New Being, with the Eternal Now.

As I dealt with what often seemed like insoluble problems, I quickly realized that they were not the problems of individuals alone but of ever - widening circles, wholes, societies.

There has been plenty of times when people was happy on AFTV and people watch that as well, it is a shame that society as a whole remembers negatives and we see this in how the news chases negative stories to show us for the ratings... afterall, watching some kittens in the sun is nice but not attention grabbing like 20 people being killed in a headline.

The Internet is the actual oxygen that Millennials breathe, and honestly, I still feel like it's had a largely positive effect on society as a whole.

Nowhere in such cultures as Islam and ancient Africa, which are deeply characterised by religious beliefs, or in those societies where the ruler and the ruled form an integral whole, like in China and Korea, can we find what may, even remotely, approximate the public and the private spheres presented by Arendt.

If you look at it like that, it is clear that this is a deal society accepted as a whole and thus carries as a whole.

Lead investigator Jason Hawes, founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, not only looks like and has the same day job as Samuel «Joe the Plumber» Wurzelbacher but carries himself with the same air of surly distrust, as if suspicious that the whole world might be encoded with hilarious bon mots at the expense of his sister.

But my experience has lead me to conclude that whole grains are healthful to the average person (not withstanding someone truly having a disease like celeriac, etc.) Coumpounding the ease with which our bodies digest grain * flours * is that we as a society eat so much of it in breads, breadings, cakes, cupcakes, etc, leading to worsening health outcomes overall.

Where a movie like All the President's Men — to which The Insider has been compared — wants to get us riled up and angry for society as a whole, The Insider can't really work on that level, even if that was the intention of director Michael Mann and writer Eric Roth.

While the film as a whole is a bag of mixed goods, Waugh does at least succeed in making laws involving mandatory sentencing look like a joke, though it is hard to laugh when some of those who break these laws pose very little threat to society, while the government puts the squeeze on them to snitch on others, putting themselves and their families potentially at risk.

Like you, I'm okay with people making bad choices except when these choices have negative externalities that affect society as a whole.

I am here to tell you that the state's proposed funding cut to public charter schools like BCCS would be detrimental not only to his future, but to the future of our children and society as a whole.

Are there any industries or companies that you simply can not invest in because you don't like what their businesses do or how their products affect society as a whole?

«Society as a whole could also lose out with the end of this program because one of the incentives to do some of the most essential jobs, like teaching, would disappear.»

If we culled the whole bully breed of dogs today the scum of society would simply teach a Labrador to behave in a similar way and yes a lab treated like shit would have the ability to kill also just as so many medium size dogs would.

And like other afflictions detrimental to our society as a whole (crack, heroin, How I Met -LSB-...]

Instead, she said, «It feels like a timely examination of how art operates, how masculinity operates, how race operates, in art as well as in society as a whole.»

Canadian society, in general, may take issue with particular decisions but as a whole appears to respect the judicial system (although most would probably like it to be more transparent, particularly the process for choosing new judges at almost every level of court).

However, it's important to remember that while initially divorce may seem like «the answer» to a hurting marriage, it tends to affect spouses, children and society as a whole in a myriad of negative ways.