Sentences with phrase «existence in a particular society»

Religion should connect the rational generality of philosophy with the emotions and purposes springing out of existence in a particular society... [it] is the translation of general ideas into particular thoughts, particular emotions, and particular purposes; it is directed to the end of stretching individual interest beyond its self - defeating particularity.»

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While, individually, we have responsibility to improve our own wellness, most people are significantly influenced by social forces in the form of fitness trends, advertisements, food costs and availability and, of particular concern, physical, biochemical and mental - emotional stress brought on by life in modern society — life increasingly characterized by existence in Max Weber's steel shell.

The Victorian Government in particular has acknowledged that «the onerous bar set by the courts in Yorta Yorta of proof of the continuous existence and vitality of a pre-sovereignty normative society through to the current day is so difficult to reach», given the history of dispossession and dispersal in the state [21].