We must hold them in mind as background to the main task, which is to explore the interaction of theologians and human scientists as they seek to formulate a new
concept of civil society which can draw traditioned communities and other human associations into a larger covenantal bond.
The problem then becomes how to reconcile a philosophical anthropology of individualism with the mutuality and interrelatedness of society, and
the concept of civil society is that synthesis by which these theses have been bridged.
Thus
the concept of civil society is one born out of a peculiar blend of reason and revelation.
Writing from Budapest, Seligman discusses whether the Western European — more precisely, Anglo - American —
concept of civil society has relevance to the Eastern situation.
Seligman traces the further transformation of
the concept of civil society in Smith and Kant, the latter of whom tries to rescue it from Hume, and in Hegel and Marx, who resolve this inherently unstable concept in statist and utopian directions.
Not exact matches
The notion
of civil society itself is such a multivalent
concept.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine
of the relation between the ethics
of Law and Grace, the Hindu
concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic
concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea
of the present morality
of class - war leading to the necessary love
of the class-less
society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common
civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions
of civil codes.
In general, a lot
of the notions
of allegiances other than to a national government are rolled into the
concept of «
civil society» as a such
of thought in political theory.
Like
civil society that «mustbe understood in relation to the state», if not in «oppositionto it» (Schwartz) 37 (emphasis in original), the
concept of global
civil society can exist beside a sense
of belonging to a nation or a state.
The necessary components for such a management structure already exist, which include the precedent set for such a «law
societies»
civil service» by Ryerson University in Toronto and the University
of Ottawa by establishing LSUC's bilingual LPP (Law Practice Program); see: Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services»
Concepts and Solutions» (SSRN pdf., August, 2017).
It presages a law captured by the rhetoric
of the right to freedom
of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise
of that right; a law in which, under the guise
of the right to freedom
of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature
of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral
concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom
of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties
of a free and democratic
society; a law to which any number
of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity
of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom
of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards
of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations
of citizens in a free and democratic
society; and a law marked by a lack
of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties
of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a
civil and civilised
society.
Further to this, Loyyal's vision for the future, is a
concept running on the Loyyal Blockchain based platform, to incentivize residents» voluntary behavior contributing towards individual happiness and the greater good
of civil society.