Sentences with phrase «civilized community»
The phrase "civilized community" refers to a group of people who live together peacefully and follow certain rules and norms that promote harmony, cooperation, and fairness. Full definition
This is the problem which gradually shapes itself as religion reaches its higher phases in civilized communities.
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he belongs in some cloistered church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living in our wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.
8 Cf. Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 340: «This is the problem which gradually shapes itself as religion reaches its higher phases in civilized communities.
This movement from authority to autonomy called for a new ethic based on John Stuart Mill's harm principle: «The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.»
The interracial dating in the civilized community really isn't what it used to be.
With runaway climate change now jeopardizing the stable, prosperous and civilized community that our laws are designed to protect, some are now asking whether the time has arrived when their obligations to their fellow humans and the wider natural world entitle them to break laws that protect those who continue to pollute the atmosphere in a way that threatens our survival.
That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
It is stated as follows: Humanitarian and compassionate factors refers to «those facts, established by the evidence, which would excite in a reasonable man in a civilized community a desire to relieve the misfortunes of another — so long as these misfortunes warrant the granting of special relief from the effect of the Immigration Act.»