Sentences with phrase «individuals upon community»

Liberalism introduces a particular cast to its preliberal inheritance mainly by ceasing to account for the implications of choices made by individuals upon community, society, and future generations.

Not exact matches

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

Within the Islamic framework the individual and the community have defined for them the rights and obligations which ensure life and happiness through cooperation and equity in assigning privileges and tasks without encroaching upon the rights of the individual or the community.

There is increasing attention to the concept that mental health and mental illness can be best understood when there is focus upon the relationship between the individual and the community in which he lives.

There is, for instance, the conclusion to a C. S. Lewis Lecture on Christian apologetics: «This means, of course, that we need to rethink the Christian basis for a liberal society, in which the rights of individuals and communities are founded upon a Christian understanding of man which is widely shared by non-Christians.

A crucial question for the Roman Catholic community today, for example, is whether or not it can respond creatively to the challenge of individual voices as diverse as those of Hans Küng and Daniel Berrigan, and adapt its communal life to the demands for change that they place upon it.

This unique emphasis upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member of many different, smaller communities) provides two different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual person and the other for what Edmund Burke called «the little platoons» of daily life.

What it is to suggest is that the default basis for evaluating institutions, society, affiliations, memberships, and even personal relationships becomes dominated by considerations of individual choice based upon the calculation of individual self - interest, and without broader considerations of the impact one's choices have upon the community — present and future — and of one's obligations to the created order and ultimately to God.

Josiah Royce with a quite different philosophical orientation from Ritschl expressed the same truth when he described the Church as the community which is sustained by its memory of the atoning deed of Jesus.21 What is supremely important here is that knowledge of God's forgiveness does not depend upon a private and subjective illumination of the individual believer alone.

-LSB-...] With the word of Spirit and of freedom, a further horizon opens up, but at the same time a clear limit is placed upon arbitrariness and subjectivity, which unequivocally binds both the individual and the community and brings about a new, higher obligation than that of the letter: namely, the obligation of insight and love.

Even so, there are some basic outlines that circumscribe academic communities: their face - to - face quality, their common pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and their integral character, the sense in which the quality of the individual's thought and the quality of the communities» thinking are mutually dependent upon one another.

Perhaps the future of cosmic evolution depends considerably upon how communities of human individuals take shape.

What needs to be underneath them is a simple foundation they can build their existence upon (ie: Jesus teachings)-- where that all goes from there is in the hand of each individual and team - work exercise (even community decisions).

On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....

Just as we sometimes fail to recognize how dependent we actually are upon the historical revelation, falsely supposing that our knowledge of God has been derived entirely or largely from nature and reason, so also often, having accepted the fact of revelation, we think of it as having been made directly to us as individuals and thus regard ourselves as being at every essential point independent of the community.

PAHJ calls upon the insights of Joseph Campbell's Great Monomyth Wheel — the universal structure of storytellers — that helps us as individuals and communities to create and understand the personal and collective stories / mythologies we live by.

Our suite of education and community outreach programs position Mass Audubon as a leader and catalyst for conservation by inspiring and stimulating individual and institutional action, ensuring that our members, visitors, and program participants feel and act upon a deep sense of interconnection and responsibility as stewards of the natural world.

«These are violent individuals who prey upon our communities and didn't simply «make a mistake.»»

Blue Labour sees immigration going hand in hand with neoliberalism which, for the last thirty years, has wrought enormous changes upon communities and individuals ill - adapted to cope with them.

Social scientists most commonly view citizenship as a juridical status conferred by states upon individuals in a national community.

«I would say that's the threshold issue: Violent crimes and violent individuals are people are who prey upon our communities and those are people we should rightfully be afraid of,» said Sen. Pat Gallivan, a western New York Republican.

«The community corrections system relies upon the efforts of dedicated individuals who enforce the law while helping offenders... Read more

Built upon an interfaith coalition, trained volunteers connect frail or vulnerable individuals in underserved communities with needed services including:

As Kenneth Shine and I emphasized 15 years ago in this journal, if science is to flourish and attain its appropriate role in aiding human progress, «It is incumbent upon all of us in the scientific community to help provide a research environment that, through its adherence to high ethical standards and creative productivity, will attract and retain individuals of outstanding intellect and character to one of society's most important professions.»

Rather than placing the entire responsibility for advocating for the sequencing of various organisms upon individual researchers, NHGRI has established three working groups comprised of experts from across the research community.

We all need sleep and community and sunshine, but the rest is very personalized based upon each individual's needs.

Also, if you're allowing an individual to upload video, it's incumbent upon the community to review every second of the video content before approving it onto the site, as people (shockingly enough!)

Upon enrolling in the Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) Program, she was happy to find exactly what she'd been hoping for at HGSE: a community of like - minded individuals asking similar questions to those she'd been pondering, and challenging her with new questions.

But they enable individuals to live in harmonious communities, pass on their values and histories, and act together without being acted upon.

The award is one of the most prestigious honors in the education community... The honor is bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to improving education across the country in significant ways,» etc..

The Community Foundation of the Ozarks has a successful entrepreneurial model that builds upon relationships with individuals and families of means to establish substantial local school funds.

Online and blended programs for teacher development can draw upon resources that are not available locally, provide just - in - time support, and offer chances for teachers to connect with each other over time, building professional learning communities that often help individual teachers to reconsider their core beliefs about education (Dede, 2014).

Visionary leader with high expectations and successful administrative experience Willing and able to be a visible community leader Strong working knowledge of community relations, program evaluation, finance, school law, collective bargaining, personnel recruitment, selection, and retention Desire to build upon a record of continuous academic improvement and success Sensitivity to the total needs of all socio - economic and cultural backgrounds pertaining to students, parents, educators, and support staff Individuals who possess, model, and expect fairness, honesty, and integrity

These individuals, upon completing eLearning programs with you, would happily become an advocate to all who are interested in their community to learn more about your course.

Each Charter Schools USA school is an integrated part of the surrounding community and reliant upon strategic partnerships with community organizations, businesses and individuals to drive student success.

That being the process of providing opportunities for everyone to find their talent and build upon that talent for the individual, community and national success.

This section has so far focused on DC's relationship with comics» creative community, based upon the premise that creative people are the true drivers of vision in comics, that a strong relationships with those individuals will lead to visionary comics, that a manager's relationships is evidence of his vision, etc..

Clients receive services based upon their own abilities through any of three employment programs: The Outsource Center, Community Work Groups or Individual Placement.

But our best opportunity, for a community of excellence, depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.»

Proponents of empowering individuals and communities, they created a legacy that Sydell Miller, her children and grandchildren continue to build upon today.

Turner Contemporary is a charity and we rely upon the support of private companies and individuals to keep our exhibitions free, and to deliver our school, family and community programmes.

The exhibition represents the life stories and related issues of the post-war Chinese LGBTQ community as the artworks on view touch upon a profusion of subject matters such as identity, equality, exploitation by mass media, social predicaments, comments on individuals / groups, human desire, as well as life and death.

In So Perfect Sharon Koelblinger draws upon the history of intentional communities and considers what there is to be gained (and lost) by individuals seeking out a utopian counter culture.

Global Green USA is also calling upon individuals in devastated communities to submit their green rebuilding ideas for their next Citizen Entrepreneur Challenge: Citizen Sandy for which they will provide seed funding and technical expertise to the winning project and finalists.

The mission of Arizona's Finest Lawyers is to identify Arizona lawyers who are nominated by their peers and who meet the selection criteria of the organization based upon his or her established high level of skill, integrity, commitment to the rule of law, and individual advancement of Arizona's legal, judicial, business, civic, and political communities.

SCOTUS noted in Martin v. City of Struthers that «Whether such visiting shall be permitted has in general been deemed to depend upon the will of the individual master of each household, and not upon the determination of the community» and ruled that Struthers may not «make this decision for all its inhabitants» (on First Amendment grounds).

R (Buckinghamshire County Council) v Kingston - upon - Thames Royal London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 457, [2012] PTSR 854 (High Court and Court of Appeal) Jonathan represented Buckinghamshire on a challenge to a lack of consultation before another local authority placed an individual in receipt of community care services in its area.

Again, particularly for those provinces with fine option programs, it's another way for the individual to contribute through some type of community service and assistance to make recompense in a small way to those people they've victimized and to the threats they've inflicted upon society.

The award, which has been bestowed upon prominent members of the legal community for more than half a century, is in recognition of an individual who has shown deep commitment to philanthropy, and whose leadership and service exemplifies the highest ideals of the law.

This will impact upon the health and economic and social welfare of individuals and communities.»