Sentences with phrase «future as a society»

It's cost effective, smart, and sustainable for our future as a society in space.»

And, the Chinese conclude, there will be more cultural revolutions in the future as their society moves along a socialist direction.»

Not exact matches

«By recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurial pursuits, we're encouraging young people to use entrepreneurship as a means to a better future for themselves and all of society.»

The study looked at living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness as a way to determine if the economies were including every individual equally in their society.

That said, nothing makes me feel quite as anxious as when I watch or read a futuristic sci - fi about a dystopian future of an abandoned society crumbled by technology.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.

But even as Musk pronounced a future where robots will take our jobs, he predicted that this increased automation will help create abundance in our society.

Future Ready Singapore, 12 February 2015: As the international corporate community rethinks the way it conducts business to address global challenges, solving water scarcity and managing water use could be the top untapped opportunity that will have the biggest positive impact on societies.

Looking ahead, we explore how entrepreneurs might further optimise their future performance as businesses connect more with society and the communities around them.

As Taylor Pearson writes, the future of society is

By reducing the potential for clone - like mindsets that traditional systems can incur, Trinkler hopes to enable future generations to not only think in unique ways, but also to build tools that are beneficial to the collective good of society as a whole.

200 years into the future, religion will probably have dropped GOD and JESUS as their focus and will probably morph into a kind of social movement that denounces the injustices of future societies.

= > We need to add our own speculations into the words of the Bible and conclude that there is physical or spiritual harm to the individual, society or future generations as a result of such relationship.

The vision of a grim and gray future is just as much a fantasy as that of a perfectly ordered society, but somehow it is the grim one that now captures our attention.

Please support victims of clergy abuse and create productive discussion about how we as a society can prevent future children from abuse, inside and outside the walls of the Catholic Church.

But as long as acting on perceived economic interest constantly impoverishes the future, society as a whole must do what it can to protect itself against market forces.

Bandwagon «wave - of - the - future» theology has proven to be a very hazardous occupation in an era of accelerating change, especially when the continuities of history are not as evident as its discontinuities, and when the media focus the public eye upon society's distortions rather than its solidities?

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

Additionally, a society that places a premium on family life must give children their proper role as the custodians of our future.

Future generations will again pose the question of truth as an element of society, hence the old question of the ecclesiality of Christian truth is still a new question.

As has been said before, it is to be expected that in future the type of the Church both in the diocese and in the parish will be that of a community of faith in a pluralistic society.

It is sometimes suggested that the future of society in the West» and so, perhaps, the world» is open to three «options»: Christianity, Islam, and a consumerism so devoid of transcendent values as to be, inevitably, nothing but a pervasive and pitiless nihilism.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

A rather neutral way of expressing the Whiteheadian position would be to say that the society of extensive connection, as realized up to now, so dominates the conditions of all future becoming that any actual occasion which might ever enjoy concrescence would have to be related to all other occasions extensively.

There can be little doubt that in civilized societies at the present time the stress is put on living as well as one can in the present moment or for a fairly short future.

The pressure of the church in a society should help reduce the tension between spiritual freedom and social morality and therefore the influence of the church in society should produce a larger community which also may be spoken as a first fruits of the Future, God intends for human beings.

He also believes that Calvary, Hope, and the Vineyard point the way to the future as «new paradigm churches» for American society.

If Kirk is right that society is a community of persons spanning past, present, and future, we have a responsibility to keep in touch with those who are dead as well as those who are not yet born — by imaginative, if not supernatural, means.

And wherever in the name of the necessity of uniform education and organization the State or perhaps the future super-State determines on imposing a single ideology with all the means of modern pressure and formation of the enormous mass of men, it will not be a Christian philosophy which is proclaimed as the official ideology of society.

The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.

As for the traditional Islamic countries, Lewis assumes that the future for the Islamic nations can only be a secular society along Western lines.

Clashes within the family or the work situation that cause resentment, hard feelings and then severance; anonymity and rootlessness in an overcrowded but lonely world; uncertainty as to the future and even as to whether there will be a future — these elements in our society rob many of what ought to be the rich satisfactions of living.

As I have tried to show in this book, unless we humans are strongly motivated to become a global society, we are likely in the imminent future to suffer horrendous catastrophes which will be of our own making.

There are a number of individuals and organizations (religious and secular) that firmly believe in non-violent strategies as the only, if not the best, way to deal with the past and to build a just future society.

At any given moment I am just one of those occasions, but when I remember my past and anticipate my future, I see myself as the total society or sequence of such occasions.

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

As such, we need to evaluate morals based on our society as it is now and what we'd like it to be in the futurAs such, we need to evaluate morals based on our society as it is now and what we'd like it to be in the futuras it is now and what we'd like it to be in the future.

Whitehead makes the distinction in terms that involve the relationship of the present to the future, as he distinguishes two kinds of societies of occasions.

In societies such as Belgium and the Netherlands in which euthanasia consciousness has been popularly embraced, doctor - facilitated suicide is available to the dying, the disabled, the elderly, the mentally ill — and even some married couples who choose death over the prospect of future widowhood.

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

Because this is the sole ideal that has the solidity once owned by Catholicism and the flexibility that this was never able to have, the only one that can always face the future and does not claim to determine it in any particular and contingent form, the only one that can resist criticism and represent for human society the point around which, in its frequent upheavals, in its continual oscillations, equilibrium is perpetually restored, so that when the question is heard whether liberty will enjoy what is known as the future, the answer must be that it has something better still: it has eternity.29

The easiest way to understand this would be to regard God, like human persons, as a living person.30 A living person is a succession of moments of experience with special continuity.31 At any given moment I am just one of those occasions, but when I remember my past and anticipate my future, I see myself as the total society or sequence of such occasions.

The way a society evolves as it moves into the future is a complicated affair.

For example, when we close our eyes to elements of society such as the homeless, the unemployed, the mentally ill, and others who do not seem to fit into our idealization of social order, or if we forget the sufferings of past generations, we end up with sketches that are inadequate to God's own vision of the future.

This is an inspired combination of terms, for they embody the goals of the kingdom, both as personal living and as the new society of the future for which we labor and pray.

He explicitly stated that he was not projecting communism as an «ought to be»: that is, communism is not to be construed as a future moral solution to a current immoral society.

In this post-political, managerial, and rights - defined future, the global system supersedes the nation as the organizing power for society.

future civilizations will study our society after it crumbles, and our policy shaping, thought controlling religious views will be lumped into the same category as the ancient greek myths, norse gods, and native american shamanism.