Sentences with phrase «in abolition»

Indeed, if a law truly «runs afoul» of «society's basic values,» it would be reasonable to expect that society's disapproval would result in its abolition or amendment through the democratic process.

What similarities do you see in the abolition and women's suffrage movements and their philosophies as described in this novel?

If it results in the abolition of the Sats, children and their teachers will be able to have a far more productive final year in primary school.

150 years ago, Americans fought a bloody Civil War (1861 - 1865) over slavery, which ended in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the How Tinder Accidentally Exposed Society's Inherent Racism The five - year - old dating app shed light on an uncomfortable set of stereotypes.

The Empire State was at the forefront of the Underground Railroad, and a national leader in the abolition and anti-slavery movements.

The party north of the border might have played a key role in the abolition of such fees in Scotland and tried to put clear yellow water between itself and the decisions made by colleagues at Westminster, but voters punished the party anyway.

Exceed those limits at peril of in - flight ejection from helicopters.1 Which essentially is the point that making demands in deep favour of labour in parliament result in the abolition of parliament as we know it.

According to Radner, modern liberal notions of human rights enabled the more authentic realization of Christian charity in history, most dramatically in the abolition of slavery.

In Abolition he uses «the Tao» as shorthand for Natural Law or First Principle.

In his account of the movement toward the abolition of slavery, Whitehead faced this problem squarely, In his view the long delay in the abolition of slavery after the introduction of the idea of the human soul does not reflect only human willfulness and stubbornness in the pursuit of unjustified self - interest.

C. S. Lewis identified this sort of discourse in The Abolition of Man where he explained how the grammar book of «Gaius» and «Titius» propagandizes rather than educates, having wormed into the inner recesses of the child's mind: «It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.»

It was witnessed in the abolition of the African slave trade and of African slavery.

C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»

When I read such words, I adapt in my mind the words of C. S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man.

Therefore the destruction of autocracy or capitalism would of necessity usher in the abolition of war; conversely, the universal triumph of democracy or of communism would usher in universal peace.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

Yet such a forward movement can not culminate in an abolition of the opposites by returning to a primordial Beginning.

Consequently, a forward movement of repetition must culminate in an abolition of its original ground.

Strong feelings also attend the scholarly debate over the role of Christianity in the abolition of slavery.

Caldecott does highlight (p38) C S Lewis's urgent call, in the Abolition of Man, for a «new natural philosophy», which appears to lend him some support, while also, this writer would say, adding some significant qualification.

Remarkably enough, these words have no clear analogue in the New Testament, but the radical Christian joins the greatest reformers of the Christian faith in discovering that the forgiveness of sin culminates in an abolition of the memory of sin.

In The Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis put the reactions to the New Science of Bacon, Descartes and their respective successors in an appropriate context.

And the cautions of those like C. S. Lewis, who noted the elitist and manipulative nature of secularism in The Abolition of Man, will seem more prophetic even than Orwell.

Not exact matches

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

The first step would be to select possible tariff items for elimination (my paper suggests a number of candidates), announce their potential abolition in the Canada Gazette and receive feedback from stakeholder groups.

In an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodationIn an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodationin 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodationin public accommodations.

, King argues for the «total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty,» concluding that the «curse of poverty has no justification in our age.»

The Board of Trade also called for the abolition of dual direct taxation (city and provincial) on personal property in Vancouver.

Such abolition has successfully occurred federally and in several support — and it will occur in Bc if and when the NDP is elected.

The deregulation of the financial system in the 1980s, and the floating of the exchange rate and abolition of exchange controls in 1983, were pivotal.

As Oliver O'Donovan has put it, «New creation is creation renewed, a restoration and enhancement, not an abolition... God has announced his kingdom in a Second Adam, and «Adam» means «Human.»

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

Here he is echoing work he did in his non-fiction book, The Abolition of Man, in which he paints a very bleak future for a humanity which abandons all concepts of value.

And we have tried, often succeeding such as in the cas of abolition of slavery, to do far more good.

Cobb, for instance, has to affirm Whitehead's position that the abolition of slavery in the Roman Empire might well have been too high a price to pay.

q. Miscellaneous final additions, such as the ninth categoreal obligation in II.1.4 or the abolition of reversion 249.41 - 250.11 / 381.36 - 382.19 or the final section on the «fourth phase»: V. 2.7.

We have been deeply involved in movements for abolition, suffrage, civil rights, economic and environmental justice, and now we are at the forefront of the movement in the church for LGBTQ inclusion.

When the world ridicules celibacy and shouts and clamours for its abolition, it does so in a state of spiritual sickness and ignorance.

And of course, part of the difference was rhetorical: Leithart continued to identify «Protestantism» by its most widespread contemporary expressions, and accordingly called for its abolition, while Sanders and Trueman remained puzzled by this odd attempt to define something in terms of its most defective forms, rather than its historic essence.

This was the result of a relatively unified Protestant vision in the nineteenth century, even if this vision had fractured into various wings over a number of issues beginning with the question of abolition.

The result is, in C. S. Lewis «s phrase, «the abolition of man.

This happened with reference to the abolition of human slavery, and it is happening now in regard to race discrimination and war.

He asserts emphatically: «The gospel (without in the least slighting any other of the things it preaches) must be interpreted as requiring abolition of the class system, an end of the American bombing of Vietnam and of the wasteful armaments competition, and the obliteration of anachronistic frontiers.»

In the developed world, we inhabit a culture that is in effect moving towards what C S Lewis called «the abolition of man»In the developed world, we inhabit a culture that is in effect moving towards what C S Lewis called «the abolition of man»in effect moving towards what C S Lewis called «the abolition of man».

«The tree of Abolition is evil,» declared Reverend Henry Van Dyke in 1860, «and only evil — root and branch, flower and leaf, and fruit; that it springs from, and is nourished by an utter rejection of the Scriptures.»

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

Embroiled in the struggle for abolition and suffrage, the early evangelicals opposed the idea that Eve, and therefore all women, are the source of sin and that God punishes women because of Eve.