Sentences with phrase «in social morality»

In our 2011 edition, Pandora's Box explores the complex tension between the slow evolution of black letter law and the relatively swift progression in social morality.

Reinhold Niebuhr, more and more convinced that the law of love can not be an absolute guide of conduct in social morality and politics, defected from the ranks of the FOR early in 1934 and became a kind of bête noire to pacifists — especially to those who claimed that pacifism was politically adequate.

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

Not exact matches

The «morality» taught in the Bible advocates violence, slavery, misogyny, and a host of other social ills.

Although the religious communities of Judaism and Christianity can not legislate this minimal human morality (indeed, when they attempt to do so they most often retard its social impact, especially in a democratic setting), they can provide it with an overall ontological context, a continuing vision of its original grounds and its ultimate horizon.

Social science data have shown that the decline in morality affects the working classes to a greater degree than the upper - middle and upper classes.

Republicans (Boehner among them) have contempt for social justice, i.e., morality, but they'll argue until they're blue in the face and get teary eyed about tax cuts.

For all the theological divisions that separated Protestants from each other in the «50s (and separated Protestants, Catholics and Jews), a fairly firm consensus existed about the substance of personal morality and the soundness of American social and political life.

One of the biggest fallouts (to oversimplify) then was that conservatives cared about personal morality and not involvement in social ethics / issues of evil, while liberals cared about social ethics / issues but were seen as lax about morality.

We need to reclaim the Christian roots of what is good in Western civilisation and be much stronger in our own defence of sexual and social morality, especially when engaging in discussion in the public forum.

The problem is that a basic tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.

They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

Many of these groups were drawn closer together by their action in behalf of better social conditions and public morality.

A society not rooted in God, trapped in social relativism where, as Hume put it, «morality is more properly felt than judged of», readily collapses into emotivism; the looter claims his opinion carries as much weight as the victim's.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.

But it can hardly be doubted that such a state of actually invincible error in moral questions exists also in society or in social groups in which the individual participates, so that his power of moral discernment does not go beyond a certain point, which, through no fault of his own, falls below objective morality.

In this case, morality is reconstituted not in terms of virtues and a vision of the good life, but in terms of the minimal demands of justice necessary for some measure of social tranquillitIn this case, morality is reconstituted not in terms of virtues and a vision of the good life, but in terms of the minimal demands of justice necessary for some measure of social tranquillitin terms of virtues and a vision of the good life, but in terms of the minimal demands of justice necessary for some measure of social tranquillitin terms of the minimal demands of justice necessary for some measure of social tranquillity.

However, the lack of «morality» has a direct correlation to most social ills in any country.

Theology was a social construction of reality purposely linked with morality in order to gain wide - ranging acceptance and to unify the masses thousands of years ago.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

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.

God is not required in Morality, it can be determined by the human social collective, and by the way is an important part of natural selection.

And by «forms of social life» I mean all that culture, morality, and religion have handed down to us by way of placing commitment in the center of our lives.

The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

In the view of these Muslims, the Western nations are degenerate because they are ruled not by God's laws but laws of their own invention that separate religion from politics, from social life, and even from morality, a fact that is, they claim, embarrassingly evident in the U.SIn the view of these Muslims, the Western nations are degenerate because they are ruled not by God's laws but laws of their own invention that separate religion from politics, from social life, and even from morality, a fact that is, they claim, embarrassingly evident in the U.Sin the U.S..

Social morality, love, and self - sacrifice even, merge our Self only in some other finite self or selves.

• In favour of some specific approaches to the balance of solidarity and subsidiarity, life issues, sexual morality, globalization, the redistribution of wealth, labour unions, financial markets, the environment and other modern social issues.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culturIn The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culturin modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culturin America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

Under this category would come the promotion of particular programs, of particular reforms, and of particular moralities, the advocacy of this or that social formula or this or that political solution as ends in themselves.

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).

It can not be too strongly stressed, in contrast to a secular moralism which finds its base in social adjustment, or a balancing of human values, or a natural law of morality, that the center of New Testament ethics lies in the love requirement which in turn stems from the free gift of God's love to the undeserving.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

These transformations affect us all in our daily ives, especially in the areas that are the most important for personal and social morality, such as education and health.

The class outlines include religion (often based in Bible study), morality (frequently centered in Victorian virtues) and social problems (heavily laced with metaphysical views of Indian cultural history) These topics are being woven into a new mix which includes a dedication to an interfaith sense of the urgent need to reconstruct the spiritual and moral values of the nation.

The former view, one that accepts the social contract theory, leads to a hyper «individualism that, on the liberal side, fetishizes free speech and subscribes to a «do your own thing» morality, and, on the conservative side, is reflected in libertarian economics, as in Margaret Thatcher's famous (or notorious?)

Islam's devotion to a monistic and theocratic social order, as well as Confucianism's understanding of a Mandate of Heaven that equates power with morality, leave no room for the idea of sovereignties in tension or conflict.

We live in a world where social morality must recognize that planetary society is approaching the ecological limits of the earth.

So gay rights, legal marijuana, that is secular morality, but you are correct — Christians now days just play at it — they get abortions, live together, smoke pot — in most cases church is just a social club especially among Catholics.

Our recent social history has evolved in such a way, however, that obtaining equal rights for minorities is part of our combined morality.

In Livezey's terms, adapted from Robert Wuthnow's, they are more likely to engage in «cultural production,» focused on theology, morality and community, than in traditional social actioIn Livezey's terms, adapted from Robert Wuthnow's, they are more likely to engage in «cultural production,» focused on theology, morality and community, than in traditional social actioin «cultural production,» focused on theology, morality and community, than in traditional social actioin traditional social action.

What is the law in the perspective of ethics supposed to mean when it comes to the needed growth of genuine social morality and the injection of hope itself into human lives?

Hume's assertion that our «religious phase» may have been the «inevitable» precondition or «vessel» of secular morality (it isn't clear whether he means naturally or historically inevitable) can't get the ethical humanist secularist around the more haunting question of whether the secular political project of mass ethical secularism is viable, much less sustainable — especially if that social order is not to be grounded in philosophy, and especially if the politics in question must, as apparently it must, be one grounded in rights to freedoms.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

With the emergence of large - scale industry in the mid-19th century the social and political implications of capitalist organization became manifest, though even today Americans tend to treat social problems as problems of personal morality.

Some earlier courses of these Open Lectures have been devoted to particular questions of social and personal morality, such as the series on God, Sex and War (Collins, Fontana Books, 1963) delivered in 1962.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.