Sentences with phrase «from society as a whole»

It's the oft - forgotten lesson that innovation depends not just on creative people and companies but also on permission and encouragement from society as a whole.

of society, there is the potential that the stratification of intelligence within that smaller group could differ substantially from society as a whole.

Not exact matches

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

While there are wonderful examples of kingdom communities who attract, embrace, and transform those who are most judged and marginalized by society and religion today, on the whole today's prostitutes and tax collectors steer as far away from Christians as they did the Pharisees in the first century.

God is so far removed from today's society as a whole, but he is the same God of the old testament as he is the same God of the new testament and the present day.

When people act «rationally» in the exchange of goods and services, that is, when they try to get the most they can for the least payment in money or service, market activity increases and society as a whole benefits from the increased availability of desired goods and services.

today, as more people in European countries drift from Christianity, they are revealing more and more intrinsic problems in their societies that mainly come from the selfish nature of the individual over the whole.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

The Incarnation was intended to bring about the perfection of the individual and of human society through the integration of the whole human race as a family which takes its name from God the Father.

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

I shall return to how he suggests we understand value arising from what is being called, in his peculiar way a «society,» but the point from Adventures of Ideas is clear enough: however we learn to appreciate the status of a complex whole comprised of constituents, it must be construed in a manner which permits that complex whole to serve in turn as constituent within a larger and more complex level of organic whole.

And just as man turns away from Being, so entire large social organisms turn away from it... For this reason we may observe how social, political and state systems, and whole societies, are inevitably becoming alienated from themselves.

But to talk about the life of men apart from the societies that shape and constitute them is similarly an abstraction which borders on the reductionist fallacy, which sees social wholes as merely summaries of individual behavior.

By their profession of faith, their worship and life, the human beings in the Church form as it were the one expression in which the hidden grace promised and offered to the whole world emerges from the abysses of the human soul into the domain of history and society.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

In the later 1950s, as I matured within the loving bonds of that society, Africa became for me not one side of a bridge but a whole sphere of redemptive life, sustaining within itself those features which earlier I had felt must come from outside.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

Moral guidance comes from the experiences of a society as a whole.

Reinforcement of the faithful has its value, so long as it does not degenerate into pandering or manipulation, but it is different from working within the mass media, dealing with the values and world view of the whole society.

Hence, what is principally carried forward from moment to moment both by the regnant personally ordered society and by all the subordinate corpuscular societies is a collective feeling of interrelatedness together with the common element of form for the structured society as a whole.

Thus the law prevents some people from getting needed help, and this neglect may be damaging both to the child and to society as a whole.

Furthermore, in individual circumstances, though not in society as a whole, there are situations so free from injustice that one may well «thank God and take courage.»

’25 Moral concern can not be separated from inner transformation, but, as twentieth - century religious leaders of several traditions have insisted, such inner transformation also embraces a concern for the well - being of the whole society.

Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...

Criminals, vigilantes and paranoid survivalists «gain» from such weapons; sportsmen and society as a whole do not.

It includes these different forms: it concerns the dealings of men with one another, inasmuch as they are related to the whole society and its common good, and also the dealings of rulers with ruled, inasmuch as the ruled receive from society their part of the common good.

Most of us who dissent from the sexual revolution do something similar, not just with friends but with society as a whole.

These entities are very different in kind from the corpuscular societies as a whole and, Whitehead is convinced, have much more kinship to the actual occasions of human experience.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

Since it is, in fact, the basic unit of communion best reflecting the dynamic of faith itself, the family has been privileged from the beginning of salvation history as the cornerstone of all human society: a stable sign, born of love, acknowledging the complementarity of human differentiation, in which the spouses» promises of mutual reliability in the engagement of the whole of their lives beget fruitfulness and endurance for the good of all.

I tend to think that a fully consistent capitalism would recognize that those who benefit most directly from this training should bear the cost, rather than society as a whole.

The shift from understanding Christian life as directly expressed in the service of the neighbor to understanding that the salvation sought is that of the whole society is an easy one, and those who made it can claim to be faithful to Wesley even if he did not take that step.

Formally and publicly to cooperate with such an institution (as distinct from treating the individuals who happen to be involved in them with human respect and charity) must always be a destructive thing for the whole of society.

I'm interested in hearing from them and from all of you on the ways that we, as a society, can manage the very real risk of exposure to allergens for allergic children while also trying to prevent developing allergies in the population as a whole.

Much of the document focuses on increasing community support across the board — from the family unit, to the care provider, to society as a whole.

Guidelines from Health Canada, The Canadian Paediatric Society, Dietitians of Canada, and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada now recommend introducing whole eggs starting at six months of age, or as soon as your child starts eating solids.

New guidelines from Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society, Dietitians of Canada and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada now recommend introducing whole eggs as soon as your child starts eating solids.

Society as a whole must recognise that educationally and economically positive returns can be gained from the majority of vocational qualifications for young people.»

More specifically, for easy and quick interaction with «strangers», society as a whole needs to have the understanding, that they are safe from arbitrary violence (put simpler: people must believe that they won't get killed by a random stranger when walking down the street).

At various points, he recognizes the legitimacy of all four common justifications of market regulation: to protect workers from exploitation, to protect consumers, to protect third parties harmed by market transactions (through externalities), and to preserve the stability of the economy or society as a whole (e.g., through regulation of the financial sector).

In an evening conference call, Cuomo sought to clarify his remarks, this time responding to a question from Jamie Swinnerton of the Ithaca Times in part about his limited powers to impact society as a whole on the sexual harassment issue.

Speaking to the Guardian about the failures of the industry as a whole, Hester said: «An element of banks became detached from society around it, an element was for traders making money for themselves or the banks, and customers [were] the means of making money.»

They are conducted in partnership with the appropriate learned societies that cover the discipline being reviewed, as the remit and recommendations from the review involve the whole academic community The process was overseen by a Steering Group composed of prominent UK academics, users of Human Geography research and funders.

Parents, family, the church and society as a whole he said must also step up to the plate to add up to what students get from schools.

«With the endorsement we have received from Ghanaians moving here, we are certain that the Park and Appolonia City as a whole will be a success and a thriving community for all sectors of society will be developed,» he observed.

«Our goal is to get research contracts from the world of industry and commerce into McGill so that our scientists can do research that is relevant to market needs, relevant to real people and real places, and engages society as a whole.»

I mean the society as a whole — from the reporters who obsessively covered the incessant launch delays, to the scientists who demeaned anyone who questioned NASA's budget, to the teachers who spoke about it in admiring tones to their students.

According to Dr Chatterji, also from the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems at WHO, «Collectively, we need to look beyond the costs commonly associated with aging to think about the benefits that an older, healthier, happier, and more productive older population can bring to society as a whole.»

To find out, let's imagine what would happen if the whole world decided to eliminate meat, milk and eggs from its diet, then trace the effects as they ripple throughout agriculture, the environment and society.