Sentences with phrase «individual in a democratic society»

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They are communitarians, that is, «if philosophical liberals are those who believe that all our problems can be solved by autonomous individuals, a market economy, and a procedural state, whereas communitarians believe that more substantive ethical identities and a more active participation in a democratic polity are necessary for the functioning of any decent society.»

Because conscience is present in every individual and corresponds so nicely to the contents of civil religion (i.e., Deism), the role of organized religion (read, the Catholic Church) is thought to be not only unnecessary for but also the enemy of Democratic society.

Partly under the impact of constant conditioning in consumerism, people in western democratic societies increasingly are putting together their own religious belief and life - style packages in order to meet individual needs.

The first part deals with why the individual's right of freedom to «profess practice and propagate religion», and to convert to another faith and religion inherent in it, is a condition and guardian of all other democratic freedoms and fundamental human rights in State, society and culture.

In democratic society it values every individual and maintains academic freedom; in genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadershiIn democratic society it values every individual and maintains academic freedom; in genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadershiin genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadership.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionIn political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionin human individuals and institutions.

The freedoms of expression present democratic societies with the unwelcome news that they are in trouble, hut because all societies, like most individuals, are always in some kind of trouble, the news doesn't drive them onto the reefs of destruction.

If this recognition can not be commonly agreed to, ethical subjectivism will pervade any society that has become aware of each individual's equal right to judge moral codes, as is inherent in the Western liberal or democratic notion of civil justice.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

He affirmed that the Nigeria Police Force is the first defender of Democracy and all democratic institutions in Nigeria and will continue to do so.He stressed that the Nigeria Police Force owes no apology to any individual or groups in its effort to ensure preservation of law and order, supremacy of the law of the land, and make sure that all Nigerians are subject to the same law, no matter what their position is in the society.

But in a liberal, democratic society, they simply are, just as blacks and whites are «simply interchangeable individuals».

Individual freedom, freedom of speech, equal rights and possibilities for everyone, solidarity, respect and tolerance are central values in the democratic Scandinavian societies.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

The value of freedom in the democratic liberal societies depends on the capacity to maintain the balance between the individual freedom in one way and the rest of the rights, the guarantee of which comes to limit these freedoms in one way or another (24).

More often than not, the light signifies no more than a turning or a twist or a light vent in a tunnel, which for the vast majority of societies in the West will seemingly never end in the sunlight of a vital, dynamic, and responsible system of free speech in the legal domain, a system that responds to the needs of a democratic society and also responds to the protection of certain other vital interests of the individual in a humane society.

While there is no doubt that the Covenant's refusal to accept LGBTQ expressions of sexuality is deeply offensive and hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and we do not in any way wish to minimize that effect, there is no Charter or other legal right to be free from views that offend and contradict an individual's strongly held beliefs... Disagreement and discomfort with the views of others is unavoidable in a free and democratic society.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

• The rights of the individual in relation to the benefit of society — under what circumstances can personal privacy become secondary to the needs of society, considering the fundamental importance of privacy protection for the development of a democratic society as a whole?

A primary factor to consider under any privacy rubric is the nature of the information obtained and the extent to which it falls within the «biographical core of personal information which individuals in a free and democratic society would wish to maintain and control from dissemination to the state.»

This is truth, this is the reality of CAIR, who stands before the court and demands that we «by our own hands» provide them with all the protections and liberties afforded an organization or individual who wishes to be a part of a democratic country yet have utterly no intention of abiding, now or at any time in the future, by the dictates of a lawful, democratic society which values and holds sacred, human rights, freedom, rule of law, women's rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and many other freedoms.

Our lawsuit claims that the new law violates sections 6 (mobility rights), 7 (protection of life, liberty and security of the person), 11 (h) and (i)(procedural protections for individuals who have been charged with an offence), 12 (protection from cruel and unusual treatment or punishment) and 15 (equality rights) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and are not justifiable in a free and democratic society.