Sentences with phrase «individual qua»

Whereas the role of the individual qua world citizen has hitherto been a weak and intermittent strand in Western cosmopolitan political thought, recent concentrated interest in both the theory of democracy and citizenship in the context of the state is starting to spill over to the global plane.

I do not pretend to be utterly clear about this, but I take it that self - identity is as fragile a thing as self - integration, and as dependent as the latter is on resources that lie outside the individual qua individual.

Not exact matches

Indeed, considered with respect to individual essences, they are incommensurable and could not both be ingressed (qua being) in one and the same actual occasion.

In fact, for fundamentalists the biblical book qua book does not really exist; rather, the Bible is an unsystematic anthology of individual verses or short passages that are unrelated to their Contexts and to the larger works in which they are embedded.

Namely, since actual entities are asserted to be distinct individuals, a second entity, AE2, can not rightly be said to be responsible / guilty qua decision maker for the activities of a prior occasion, AE1.

So a religious individual or household might well ask: if my church, qua employer, can get an exemption from anti-discrimination laws, why not me as an individual or as a family as an employer or service provider?

And herein lies the beauty and the genius of the UN Declaration of Human Rights: it captures and puts into words — despite differences in race, culture, and religion — a globally accepted baseline of sine qua non elements that contribute to human dignity that all individuals should benefit from regardless of which government is in power.