Sentences with phrase «in a complex society where»

Indeed, in a complex society where no one can grasp more than a few of the details, some of the most important practical theology will have to be done by specialists in medicine, law or business, or by theologians and ethicists whose training equips them for specialized roles in those institutions.

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If we are messing up in Afghanistan, where reconstruction and serious reform are stalling, why would one think we would do better in Iraq, a much larger and more complex society?

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

But the implications of going diaper free in a society where it's virtually unheard of are a bit more complex.

Islamic extremism has its roots in a number of complex factors but is best tackled by focusing on strengthening economies and societies across the region, a priority area where the UK will play a major role.

This effect on some genes may be a result of the buffering effect of living in a complex, interdependent society, where the «collective genome» is less vulnerable to dramatic environmental changes or other external threats, Robinson said.

Only during the past 10,000 years, with the development of agriculture, have our ancestors lived in more complex societies where the ability to think long - term and plan for the future was an advantage.

Take Chicago, where Tree House Humane Society — a no - kill shelter with a trap, neuter and release (TNR) program — uses feral cats to help control a rat problem in an Evanston apartment complex.

While a self - driving car operated by artificial intelligence that crashes into a pole might be properly addressed by traditional notions of manufacturer's liability, the use of machine learning in other areas of society that are litigated might be much more complex, especially where they are used to assist decision making by data that can never be fully understood by the user.

France commented that governments and civil society must address this complex issue together and said it had been consulting with states on a mandate for discussions at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), where it will propose in November a diplomatic mandate for talks on fully autonomous weapons in 2014.

Children in societies where extended families live together in traditional styles tend to display more prosocial - cooperative behavior than children in economically complex societies with class structures and occupational division of labour.13 Early socialization of responsibility is associated with the development of prosocial - cooperative behavior.