Sentences with phrase «basic values of democracy»

It seems to me that the current call for «social justice» is not so much related to any specific leftist policy as much as an appeal for the basic values of democracy.

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These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

But beyond that, my account of basic democracy is intentionally bare - bones — and thus lacking the blood and tissue of value commitments and passions that animate all fully realized political systems.

Some of our values are clear — internationalism, protecting individuality and non-conformity, hating bullying and the abuse of power, promoting environmentalism, protecting civil liberties and a love of democracy not so much because we think it efficient or effective but because it expresses a basic equality of respect for all individuals.

The values of independence, democracy, human rights, and sustainability help the organization work toward their vision of a world where all people have access to enough affordable, healthy, and wholesome food and clean water to meet their basic needs.