Sentences with phrase «by society as a whole»

The emphasis is thus not upon modernity as experienced by intellectuals, but as experienced by society as a whole.

It is the medical field in which the Protestant church can be heard most decisively by the society as a whole when it claims that its ministries complement China's drive for scientific and technical advancement.

The arrangement of time by society as a whole is political, of course: how time is structured makes someone's life easier and someone else's harder.

However, the five main UK disability rights groups all oppose change, because 70 per cent of disabled people believe that such a change would «lead to pressure being placed on them to end their lives prematurely», and over half that it would be «detrimental to the way that disabled people are viewed by society as a whole».

Stem cells are the great therapeutic promise of the century, and this evolving field of research and medicine brings with it many legal, ethical and psychological issues that must be discussed by society as a whole.

After my last comment i scrolled thru other comments on here and their seems 2 b a theme of maltreatment by society as a whole!

When an academy trust or local authority pays a school leader a significant sum using funding that is owned by society as a whole, and justifies this with the use of the business term of «market rate», have we lost a little something of what makes the education sector?

The difference lies in the value that is placed on your pet by your family and by society as a whole.

This is actually a very large subset of psychology that is often at odds with «mainstream» psychology due to the views practitioners have on the role of Christianity in our lives, homosexuality and other beliefs and practices that are accepted by society as a whole but not by various sects of Christianity.

Not exact matches

But it also serves an incredibly important role as an enabler and incubator of innovation and positive forward momentum for society as a whole, which is something that simply will not continue if those lone individuals become disadvantaged by getting their services blocked, slowed or effectively taxed by usage limits.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

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....

At some point the morals espoused by religion will, on balance, no longer fit the society as a whole.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

While there are wonderful examples of kingdom communities who attract, embrace, and transform those who are most judged and marginalized by society and religion today, on the whole today's prostitutes and tax collectors steer as far away from Christians as they did the Pharisees in the first century.

Furthermore, Steve, by your logic, marrying can't be good at all: since marrying a woman isn't good for women, and what is good is good for everyone, than marrying a woman can't be good for men or for society as a whole; and likewise marrying a man can't be good either.

We habitually think of persons, one by one, as the constituent elements of society, and we regard the social whole as made up of their enforced or voluntary blending.

Men tend to be more aggressive on the whole because their aggression is rewarded as confidence by society.

There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»

In a pluralistic society, while there must be certain standards by which everyone is regulated, there is no inclusive pattern of life for the society as a whole.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

It is my conviction that science, as well as society as a whole, would gain by this change.

Now, as before in American history, the still small voice that is heard only by the spiritually sensitive may portend seismic changes for the society as a whole.

He believes that something will come out as invaluable, even though the garbage as 8 whole is considered junk by the society [Living Theology in Asia.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Such a society is not directed against the market, but demands that the market be appropriately controlled by the forces of society and the state, so as to guarantee that the basic needs of the whole of society are satisfied»... (no. 35).

The radical conclusion that they drew, is that the salvation proclaimed by the gospel is first and foremost the salvation of society as a whole.

By their profession of faith, their worship and life, the human beings in the Church form as it were the one expression in which the hidden grace promised and offered to the whole world emerges from the abysses of the human soul into the domain of history and society.

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.

Because this type is open to society as a whole, it is best led by a «priest» who cares for the needs and encourages the growth of an ongoing community.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

Hence, what is principally carried forward from moment to moment both by the regnant personally ordered society and by all the subordinate corpuscular societies is a collective feeling of interrelatedness together with the common element of form for the structured society as a whole.

I would say that morality isn't decided by any one individual, but by the consensus of society as a whole.

Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance of a common form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination of the successive subjective aims of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation» of the series by each succeeding term) toward a final end or «satisfaction» of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).

A church that took God seriously could not stand quietly by while society as a whole engaged in such blatant and acknowledged worship of the increase in wealth, but this silent acquiescence is just what has happened.

By reason of this prior decision Whitehead is forced to interpret all those beings of higher order that manifest themselves as unities, such as living beings and humans, to be a multiplicity of entities, that is, to be a «society,» [253] or even more as a whole gradation of inter-compartmentalized «societies» and «subordinate societies.»

But because the society of our fellowmen, intimate or remote, is marked by the same mortality which is ours as persons, while the whole sweep of history as we experience and know it is also a mortal history — under the sign of death — any appraisal made in this way is also limited and partial.

They assume that when such growth occurs, whatever hardships may be suffered by particular sectors of society, the people as a whole are better off.

It may be defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose culture and way of life had become so permeated and shaped by Christian beliefs and values as to form a cohesive whole.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

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...

Schleiermacher had defined law, medicine, and ministry as «professions» by reference to the leadership each gives to practices that are indispensable to the well - being of society as a whole.

One reason why formation has been deemed unimportant by many churches is that we have assumed that our community is roughly continuous with the society as a whole.

What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.

While aware that Niebuhr would not be recognized as a sociologist by most sociologists today, Witham, in a quite illuminating manner, positions Niebuhr in the tradition of Comte, Marx, Durkheim and Weber, who sought to map the progress of whole societies.

This third «level» canalizes the originality produced by the living occasions so that it is not destructive of the society as a whole.

But for the church as a whole a theological evaluation of the promise and dangers of electronic technology is critical: as human society rapidly becomes an extended electronic network, it is imperative that the church's response be guided by clear theological insights and not mere opportunism.

However, in spring 2005, when Raymond Bradley, an atheist in Editorial Board for The Open Society journal, wrote an open letter to Flew accusing him of not «check [ing] the veracity of [Schroeder's] claims before swallowing them whole,» Flew strongly responded to that charge in a letter published in the same journal in summer 2006, describing the content of Bradley's letter «extraordinary offensive» and the accusation made by him as an «egregiously offensive charge»; he also implied that Bradley was a «secularist bigot,» and suggested that he should follow Socrates's advice (as scripted in Plato's Republic) of «follow [ing] the argument wherever it leads.»