Sentences with phrase «concepts of justice»

This is a game that depicts the death of the Old West, where idealistic concepts of justice and freedom allowed pioneers to live simple lives far from the meddling of the government, which during the game has begun to encroach.

This theory starts from the undeniably correct thesis that Aboriginal concepts of justice and Western concepts of justice are very different.

To knowingly thwart the application of a law, even where that law may run afoul of blurry concepts of justice, may well be beyond their scope.

Everything is a political calculus and has no bearing on ancient American concepts of justice, restitution and rehabilitation.

How are the concepts of justice and voice linked?

This is a game that depicts the death of the Old West, where idealistic concepts of justice and freedom allowed pioneers to live simple lives far from the meddling of the government, which during the game has begun to encroach.

«There are many different concepts of justice in different legal systems.

Our very language has a wedge inserted between spiritual and material issues which cordons off concepts of justice, thereby allowing expansionist language without awareness of the connection between our own history and various forms of injustice and exploitation.

«She was one who campaigned and promoted the idea and the concept of forgiveness but also at the same time the concept of justice.

Completely realistically and, indeed, sympathetically conceived and presented, he protests, in the name of a regular and quite proper Jewish concept of justice, against the unfairness, to him, of the whole proceedings.

But any legal order must make some attempt to link the concept of law with the concept of justice.

But I would like to point out several dangers in the thinking of those who reject the concept of justice based on creation ordinances known to all persons, regardless of their religious persuasion or soteriological and revelational systems.

By adding the concept of justice to those of love and power, new alternatives for evangelical Protestantism's thinking about politics are created.

It is the concept of justice which creates other alternatives by which the concepts of «loveless power and «powerless love» can be reconciled.

Thus, as we deal with the concept of justice, let us not suppose that it is of lesser relevance or importance for the Christian than the concept of love,

Even a good social order requires transcending to avoid becoming deadening, which implies that the concept of justice, too, for Whitehead is relative.

Regardless, according to your concept of justice, Osama got what he deserved and his punishment was death.

The concept of justice in my opinion goes well past the grave with death not being a form of pardon received by those who may have escaped justice on Earth.

But in its defense he cited Alasdair MacIntyre's conclusion in After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 1984) that no generally accepted concept of justice is available therefore, «even justice can only be provisional this side of the eschatological fullness of the kingdom of God.»

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

Such a concept of justice finds its full expression in the Christ - event.

They sought information on the Prophet's relatives, friends, and successors in order to determine who had most truly inherited his character and his concept of justice.

The Merchant of Venice sets a concept of justice tempered with mercy over against unbending legalism and self - righteousness, but it reminds us» in the troubling figure of Shylock as well as in the failure of the Christian characters to integrate him into the comic conclusion» that even expressions of mercy can be tainted with self - righteousness.

How can one understand the concept of justice in evaluating the dignity of the human being without falling into the trap of meaningless rhetoric and empty sloganeering?

He argues that the bishops» concept of justice is less comprehensive than that of the Bible: «In the economy of God, the whole created order is the object of redemption, and justice is rendering whatever is required for the fullest possible flourishing of all creation» (p. 474).

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

«In no way should REBNY's opposition be construed as minimizing legitimate cases of tenant harassment but this bill would turn the most basic American concept of justice — «innocent until proven guilty» — on its head.»

The three state attorneys general — Eric Schneiderman of New York, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Beau Biden of Delaware — are now attempting to build a new coalition and ideology, knit together by the concept of justice that lies behind law and order.

* July 2012: The editor of the website «BestSellingCrimeThrillers.com» awarded HUNTER «Five Distinguished Stars» in a rave review that concludes, «If you believe in the concept of justice, you will love this book.»

It must never be forgotten that political and economic activity is only effective when it is understood as a prudential activity, guided by a perennial concept of justice and constantly conscious of the fact that, above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights.

Pros: Great for demonstrating the concept of justice, which, as we all know means weighing random objects against each other.

So the concept of justice must begin with a «reasonable agreement» among members of a community about what they collectively believe to be right and wrong.

From that (often dynamic) common ground, the concept of justice becomes the foundation of a society by codifying these agreed upon rights and wrongs into law.

Change can be good and can improve our concept of justice.

The concept of justice has been articulated through diverse perspectives.

Any concept of justice is entirely absent in the recent government proposals to facilitate out of court disposal of certain classifications of offences.

Despite the concept of a justice system being a contradiction, the United States has the finest justice system in the world.

The concept of justice reinvestment came out of the Open Society Institute, a New York think - tank led by George Soros.

This study incorporates the concept of justice into research on relationship quality, exploring in detail the relevance of justice to relationship quality.

The concept of justice reinvestment is discussed in detail in the 2009 Social Justice Report.

Applying the concept of justice to the study of channel relationships is in its early stages.

Not exact matches

King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

Its public relations machine seemed to run completely off the rails in May, when the European Court of Justice enshrined the «right to be forgotten» — a concept Google had said amounted to censorship and which it had fought to undermine.

Ultimately, looking more deeply and broadly into the foundations of the contesting positions on commercial surrogacy and the sex trade leads to the realization that even those who are committed to gender equality and social justice should reconsider the advisability of undermining the core concept of consent, and the desirability of criminal prohibitions.

I hope to explore this properly in another note soon, but suffice to say for the time being that the typical framework economists use to think about inflation - which they proxy by changes in the CPI - is narrow, incomplete and fails to do justice to the richness of inflation as a concept.

The second concept necessary for the encyclical's argument is the common good: «To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.»

Concepts of wealth, disease, sanity, justice, human rights, the humanities, do not make sense in the terms of naturalism.

That cartoon may be theologically correct, but many of the fundamentalists that I have met are more interested in seeing those that they judge to be «sinners» go to hell rather than heaven to satisfy their concept of Divine justice.

Everyone's ideas of justice are on a spectrum, but I'd sum of my own in the fewest words by saying to follow the concept of the Golden Rule, which most Christians love to preach but don't follow.

not yours... you seem to like justice... but you hate the concept of hell...