Sentences with phrase «coercion as»

It relies on coercion as the prime motivator for learning.

Since no society can exist without some measure of coercion as well as some measure of persuasion, Christian teaching on the proper relation of these two forms of power has been complex and diverse.

Even God could not apply enough coercion as extrinsic motivation to secure a right choice if it were a morally responsible free choice.

Milbank sees coercion as «a merely tragic necessity,» a pagan residue only to be deployed temporarily.

(4) The State must use coercive power to enforce its authority; the Christian can accept some forms of coercion as right and necessary, but at others his conscience is bound to rebel.

He retreats into proposing coercion as a solution to the crumbling of authority of society.

However, men can not discharge these obligations in a manner in keeping with their own nature unless they enjoy immunity from external coercion as well as psychological freedom.

Not exact matches

(As I'm sure Broadsheet readers know, the singer has been the focus of multiple allegations of sexual abuse, sexual coercion, and physical abuse.)

Look up «hustle» in the dictionary and you'll see the word commonly means to sell something by force and / or coercion, and / or to maintain a flutter of activity, as in «the hustle and bustle of the daily grind.»

The investigation by the United States under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act has identified theft from and coercion of U.S. companies to disclose their intellectual property as well as purchases by Chinese state funds of U.S. companies for their technology knowledge.

Whether Canada and Mexico's brief reprieve from tariffs will jump - start NAFTA talks or be perceived as coercion to win concessions remains an open question.

Capitalism is the only known system that can take man as he is without leading inexorably to coercion, cruelty, and poverty.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

No coercion, no force, no policy — it was a suggestion as a method for some.

This government was founded and based on Christian principles but firmly defends your right to believe as you will or not believe at all with no coercion or retribution forthcoming.

It has been a place of rotten teaching, spiritual coercion and dishonesty, and of judgement, and as such a place of real damage and pain to me and many of my friends.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

You have to respect a religion that expects you to study an issue, contemplate upon its ramifications, then act as you feel you should without coercion from others.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

As Chesterton observed, «Creatures so close to each other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.&raquAs Chesterton observed, «Creatures so close to each other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.&raquas husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.»

But as we move through the scriptures and analyze the accounts of how God deals with human beings, coercion is rare.

No to Privatization «red in tooth and claw»; yes to Public Sector without political corruption; no to Liberalization, with market exploitation; yes to Liberation from exploitative coercion; no to globalization as domination of world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism in sharing and caring for the suffering humanity and Good Samaritan ethic - these should be evolved and situated in Third World conditions and perspectives.

I hate coercion, they seem to be saying; I will no longer have that whip cracked over my head; I will cut loose, do as I please, and be independent.

Informed non-Catholics know that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Pope John Paul II succeed through coercion, as in the case of ruling women out of the priesthood.

Treating these things as an obligation of believers, gaining these things by coercion, is counterproductive and illegitimate.

32 Persuasion is affirmed as a positive alternative to coercion or compulsion, surrendering the illusion of control and intending not to violate the freedom of the one being persuaded.

The issue between love and linear power is not finally the issue between persuasion and coercion... In some interpretations of love, especially Christian love, it would appear that love is as unilateral and nonrelational in its way as linear power is in its way.

The forms of legal coercion such as laws against bigamy, age limits for consent to marriage, the husband's moral economic obligations to support the wife, and so on are the province of the community as a whole.

I also agree, religion has been used as a means of nefarious coercion, and that is something I deplore as much as you do.

First, God's freedom may be understood as self - determination, self - relation or self - giving without external coercion.

Insofar as freedom can not be so defined, a proscription on external coercion requires a substantive principle or norm of social action.

ter · ror · ist: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion I can think of many who are guilty of this.

Since Christ conquered as the «Lamb who was slain,» paradoxically surrendering power, Christians are called to renounce coercion and violence without qualification.

Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom in question is lessened in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds of interference are immoral.

It is a mistake, therefore, to think of persuasion as necessarily less effective than coercion.

So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful, strong, efficient, and competent form of power or control.

In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal of love as action from social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial with a monopoly upon the use of coercion (MVG 173).

They tend to see moral debate as leading inevitably to irresolvable conflict or coercion.

The subtle as well as the more obvious techniques of persuasion, coercion and legal controls are part of the functioning of morality.

But fred, it's not that much different from the same god who killed infants just outside of the womb as a coercion tactic.

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

Because of the cross, then, we are freed to pursue justice and righteousness in the political order; and Christians can do so without experiencing the compulsion to use politics as a means of coercion and manipulation.

(The other is promoting coercion, as in rationing.)

God's use of persuasion, as opposed to omnipotent coercion, which is so often attributed to God, is not based on a voluntary self - limitation.

If we must use coercion, then let us know that we are doing so; let us admit honestly that insofar as this is done we are not obeying the perfect divine will; let us recognize that at best the use of such force is a pis - aller, not the entirely right thing.

Society must strive for justice, even if it is forced to use means, such as self - assertion, resistance, coercion, and perhaps resentment, which can not gain the moral sanction of the most sensitive and moral spirit.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

In the past ten or 15 years many states have revised rape laws to encompass male as well as female victims, marital rape, acts of sexual coercion not involving intercourse and assaults in which there is no instance of resistance or physical harm.

If we assume, as we presently do, that the primary goal of both God and concerned humans is to maximize freedom (creativity) for the greatest number, it is the following query with which we must be concerned: Do continuous divine persuasion and occasional human coercion, in conjunction, better maximize freedom than would continuous divine persuasion alone?