Sentences with phrase «absolutes out of society»

Not exact matches

Pope John Paul II points out that «if the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another... society becomes a mass of individuals placed side by side, but without any mutual bonds» (Evangelium Vitae, 20).

don't forget the absolute evil perpetrated by those who so resolutely looked to push all religion our of their societies... the Nazi's, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists... I'm not really one to toss out numbers w / o some good backing, but I would venture a guess that those 3 20th century areligious governments killed way more than the Catholics and Crusaders did.

While a retributive theorist such as Kant might hold that there is not only «a prima facie obligation on society to punish one who has infringed the rights of others; it is an absolute over-all obligation — punishment must absolutely be meted out or society itself is guilty of wrong» (ET 498), a utilitarian theorist would see things quite differently.

Ok, I did mention it by way of comparison to Society (which, you are right, I forgot about, sorry — I was just trying to point out that legal recognition isn't taken as an absolute).