Sentences with phrase «modern society values»
Modern society values the life of the fetus over that of the mother.
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First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.
These can be utilized without a wholesale capitulation of Christianity's distinctive witness to the assumptions and values of modern society.
The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.
Thus, individuals and societies need a system of values by which to live; the nature and pace of modern cultural transformations have cut men adrift from the security of established ideals.
Modern society places a high value on success, learning and competence.
The fact that there is relatively so little concern for manners in modern American society is not a consequence of democratic commitment but a sign of uncertainty and indecision concerning our values.
P. F. Fichter, the author of The Southern Parish, has rightly said that a systematic understanding of the role of Catholicism in modern society requires us to study not only its values and meanings but more especially the «vehicles» employed to activate them and the agents who believe in these values and employ these «vehicles.»
Gertrude Himmelfarb, in The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values (1995), states that «it was not until the present century that morality became so thoroughly relativized that virtues ceased to be «virtues» and became «vValues (1995), states that «it was not until the present century that morality became so thoroughly relativized that virtues ceased to be «virtues» and became «valuesvalues.
One might object that, in fact, modern society already understands «values» according to a relativistic model» especially since the birth of the values clarification movement» in a way it has not yet relativized «virtues.»
Traditional values worked against those needed to build a «modern» society.
By liberal culture I mean not only these values of modern American liberalism but also its practices in our political order, our schools, our media, and the major institutions (except, to some extent, or course, religious institutions) of our society.
Shoshana Hayman: «Although modern society has devalued the role of mothers, know that your role as a mother is of paramount value in the world.
I would agree, it seems to me that employment is likely to lower the chances of poverty and crime, and modern western societies have placed a lot of value on being employed (or working in general, as in being self - employed or even owning and running a business - but most people still work regular old jobs).
Their modern stranglehold on the understanding of freedom means that they have managed to lay claim to one of society's most cherished values.
«Although autonomy - establishing behavior is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger,» Allen and colleagues write.
Slotten's timely and well - written book reminds us of two important facts of modern life: that a society that can not uphold the values of science will not be able to benefit from it; and that a science that can not address the values, needs and questioning of society and inspire its support will lose its public patronage.
What's your market value in modern - day society?
STD dating sites offers a remarkable value in our modern society.
Not only does the narrative assuredly work on face value as a commentary on modern society (and all our foibles and failings), it completely functions in all of its Mobius strip - like allegorical connections (religious and whatnot).
Education systems should incorporate multiple ways of learning, combining formal and non-formal, traditional and modern, local and outside languages, local and external teachers; high priority needs to be given to vocational learning, through community - based institutions; content should be focused on enhancing links with nature, culture, and society, encouraging community and collective thinking and working, respecting diversity, and other principles and values described in this section.
In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation in the same complementary was as that between the space - time description and energy - momentum conservation.
In light of the modern day obsession with the selfie, it is important to turn an eye on the work of contemporary female artists who address self - portraiture, not with self - promotion in mind, but to interrogate contemporary society and the social and political values we grapple with.»
The modern museum is a place for intellectual and artistic production that responds to the need of society to recognize and validate its values and creativity, or to examine its history and perspective of development.
Founded in Zurich during the First World War, Dada was the first of the modern anti-art movements, whose members were revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War and devoted themselves to an artistic style that set out to deliberately challenge all the traditional values of a society that could have allowed such barbarity to occur.
Kim seeks for the viewer to question the meaning and «value» of living creatures in our modern society.
Often putting these elements in present time, he is frequently questioning and commenting on the values and the base of modern day societies.
The essay discusses the role of crafts and art in modern society and, in particular, the value of working directly with materials.
Lawyers play an important role in the modern society and their expertise is highly valued by individuals and organizations alike.
Accordingly, this article suggests that in deciding whether to integrate digital media use within the courtroom, the justice system must determine which of the democratic values that underpin the open court principle ought to be given decisive weight in modern society.
Accordingly, this article suggests that in deciding whether to permit digital media use in the courtroom, the justice system must determine which of the democratic values that underpin the open court principle ought to be given decisive weight in modern society.
Understanding the history of the country whose laws you plan to study will give insight into the type of society, values, and political developments that influenced their laws, both ancient and modern.
It belongs to all of us and in the case of the manner in which the Law Society of British Columbia made its decision it was a decision made transparently and democratically after a debate informed by law, history and an expression of the modern values of the legal profession.
This type of company often highly values technology and its advancements in modern society.
Though its roots may be traced back as far as the pioneering era of sexuality in India, and later to the Enlightenment (Rousseau, Marquis de Sade) and the Victorian era (Algernon Charles Swinburne's scandalous Poems and Ballads of 1866), it was a development in the modern world which saw the significant loss of power by the values of a morality rooted in the orthodox religious traditions such as the Christian tradition and the rise of permissive societies, of attitudes that were accepting of greater sexual freedom and experimentation that spread all over the world and were captured in the concept of «free love».
These range from ideas that development goes through incremental phases to a point where traditional values and cultures are abandoned to make way for a modern society.
According to Nationwide Building Society, a modern extension on the ground floor can increase your property's value by around 5 %, while adding a bedroom to create a three - bed house will add about 12 % to the potential asking price.