Sentences with phrase «defined by the society»

They are both defined by society as Foucault demonstrated.

It can only be defined by the society of its environment?

However, it is with good reason: morals are not defined by society.

Since it is agreed upon that motherhood, and child - and baby care is defined by society, these roles will then off course also be determined by the place and time.

Audi will test autonomous cars that meet the Level 3 criterion defined by the Society of Engineers, meaning the vehicles can drive autonomously at posted highway speeds under certain conditions.

Through near - limitless exploration of disguise, she comments on the female roles defined by the society, revealing gender as an unstable and constructed position.

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The forum was convened to discuss how CEOs and investors can have constructive dialogue around creating long - term value that benefits customers, employees, shareholders, and society, as opposed to embracing a toxic short - termism defined by myopic decisions.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

The study defined sustainability as the «commitment by organizations to balance financial performance with contributions to the quality of life of their employees, the society at large and environmentally sensitive initiatives.»

What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

The hint of an answer is provided a few lines later when he says: «Thus a set of entities is a society (i) in virtue of a «defining characteristic» shared by its members, and (ii) in virtue of the presence of the defining characteristic being due to the environment provided by the society itself» (PR 89/137).

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

The fact that Islam has permitted individual as well as communal discretion — limited only by the original definite legislation of the Qur» an and the Sunnah, which define the roads to justice — enabled students of the Islamic code to choose freely the laws regulating the affairs of Islamic society.

This liberalism is defined by its vision of society as a contract among naturally free and equal persons, and its antitypes are communitarian visions of the left (socialist, egalitarian community) and of the right (traditional, hierarchical, moralistic community).

If they define their own morals, we should be neither surprised nor outrage by their morals, as defined by themselves and their society.

If the moral philosophers, theologians, and others are right, however, our society is equally united and defined by the story we collectively tell and live.

This defining characteristic is «inherited» by later actual entities in the society from earlier actual entities in the society.

The differences between the kinds of things in nature then go back to the different contrasts, repetitions, divisions, or modes of integration involved in the chains of prehensions by which actual occasions make up societies with different defining characteristics.

The «running down» of the physical universe is interpreted as a general decay of the patterns of prehensions now dominant; new societies defined by new types of order, now perhaps sporadically foreshadowed, will arise in another cosmic epoch.

The exercise of authority is not located socially within a commonwealth but within a society of strangers who define themselves in opposition one to another by rights, possessions, and differing «life styles.»

The community defined by these two concepts is what our human nature really craves, and what it must have if it is not to be in conflict with itself both within the individual and within society.

Second, he understood such a nexus to be deficit of any «defining characteristic,» which is that required common element of form that describes and is inherited by each actual entity of the nexus of a society.

The Church was, and is, supposed to continue the «open - table fellowship» that defined Jesus» ministry: engagement, acceptance, hospitality towards and friendship with those ostracised by society; not least those living with disability.

While there is continuity of function in a civilized society, it is the kind of continuity defined by a plurality of interrelated things and not the continuity of any one single individual.

Our society is defined by what we do and how fast we do it, but God looks at us all and calls us children.

Recall T. S. Eliot's observation that a society that was Christian still is Christian until its Christianity has been replaced by a positively defined something else.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

I do think personal being must be more broadly defined in appropriate mentalistic, telic terms, rather than conscious - self - conscious terms alone, but I see no good account of continuity across intermittency of consciousness by shifting the problem to a bodily society that does not enjoy my consciousness.

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.

Although openly confessing Christians could play supporting or even mildly dissenting roles in society (Reinhold Niebuhr comes to mind), the essential social ideals that higher education would promote would be defined in secular terms and largely by secularists.

The society endures by repetition: each member repeats the form constituting the defining characteristic of the society.

A substance comes into being by means of that event which establishes its essence, i.e., an enduring object comes into being by means of the initial member occasion of that society which first constitutes its defining characteristic.

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

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.

That is, the nature of ministry must be defined, not by an account of society's needs, but by an account of the purposes of the church.

The university traces its origins to the Middle Ages, when most universities were established by the church to perform a role in society defined and desired by the church.

The second way for societies of occasions to survive is by changing their defining characteristics, done by admitting novelty in the form of conceptual feeling.

In developing this argument I shall (1) take a close look at the notion of religious pluralism, finding it to mean much more than mere multiplicity of groups defined by ecclesiastical characteristics; (2) look at the historical form taken by pluralism in American society as a set of pressures to which responses were required; and (3) identify the «religiousness» of the response made by legal institutions.

If society defines what is right and wrong, these people must have done a bad thing by going against that.

It forecast that «almost all our economy and society» will be affected by the momentous changes taking place to our north and warned «a whole - of - Australia effort» was needed to deal with a social and economic transformation as «profound as any that have defined Australia throughout our history.»

INDUSTRY DEFINITIONS & FINDINGS: HR 3798 Legislation, written and supported by both the United Egg Producers (UEP) and the Humane Society of the US (HSUS), and introduced in the last Congress, defines «Free Range» as: «(1) «Eggs from free - range hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.»

You will learn: ♥ The basics of attachment theory and parent education principles ♥ Why attachment is critically important for the family and society ♥ Attachment parenting as defined by API ♥ Cultural myths about parenting ♥ The myths about AP ♥ Hands on strategies and activities for teaching the parents you serve and much more!

All crib mattresses are required to meet the standards for safety, as defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials as well as the CPSC.

Oh, not that women are facing a shrinking pool of marriageable men, but that she — and society — is still defining men by how much they make and how smarter they are than their wives, a very 1950s, «Mad Men,» retro and misguided way to think.

Certified - Baby crib mattress must meet the security criteria well - defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials and CPSC.

Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.

Rather, it is defined by a mutual recognition that liberalism, at least in some of its guises, does not provide all the answers to Britain's most entrenched problems: its imbalanced economy, its atomised society, its lack of common identity.»

Second, the «flattening down» of society by social media, tweets, and the overwhelming impact of the internet, and especially its capacity to influence by «post-truth» assertions and statements, can, when combined with a populist, single issue vote, give rise to an entirely new form and interpretation of what the National Interest — still poorly defined — should now mean.

Buildings that receive low benchmark scores, as defined by the Guidelines, shall undergo an American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air - Conditioning Engineers («ASHRAE») Level II energy audit, or any other comparable audit that the CMIT approves.

He should explain why his moral purpose in politics is defined by extending opportunity to all and narrowing the gaps in life chances in Britain, because we are stronger as a society and an economy when all are included.