Contemporary visual arts are at the heart of our nation and are central to what makes us expressive and creative
individuals within society.
His questioning of the political, social and economic scenes in contemporary Mali is evident in how AIDS, wars, ecological issues, human rights, globalisation affects all aspects of life and
individuals within society.
This Situation (2007) enables a conversation that throws into question our self - image as a society and our roles as
individuals within that society.
As time went on, civilization developed, and the role of
individuals within society grew more specialized.
The third point is a by - product of the previous two — with more information, organised in more ways, the media experiences of
individuals within a society are likely to be more differentiated.
Salvation could come not for
individuals within that society, but only for society as a whole, when the sin of slavery was abolished.
For that reason, someone whose personal character becomes clearly manifest in its willingness to accept compassionately the excluded and forgotten, those whose lives are burdened with shame, will be exceptionally disruptive both to society and
the individuals within that society.
Otherwise, with only your quote from above to go on, it seems that you would agree that if a given society, such as Uganda, or a tribe within Uganda, has agreed that homosexuality is ethically inadmissable, then
the individuals within that society would be wrong to dissent from what has been generally accepted by social contract and common consent?
Political theorists, going as far back as John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, have long argued that exposure to diverse perspectives is vital both to a robust civil society and to the development of
individuals within those societies.
Artes Mundi 4 winner Yael Bartana uses documentation, simulations and re-enactments to explore the relationship of
the individual within society.
The sculptor found in him a kindred spirit, sharing political views on the responsibility of the artist in the community and more broadly
the individual within society.
Yael Bartana uses documentation, simulations and re-enactments to explore the relationship of
the individual within society.
Not exact matches
We're not
individuals, we're always people
within families, communities and
societies.
I could care less what
individual people believe or practice
within their own segment of
society, but the LDS church is organized around a very well - enforced «church first» principle.
His solution, following his own reading of Whitehead's doctrine of
societies, is to argue that an organism or compound
individual entity exists wherever one of its constituent subsocieties is dominant over the other subsocieties
within the organism (PEW 215).
I suppose there will always a tension between the need for security or an illusion thereof, and freedom; both
within each
individual and
society.
The problem facing American
society is this: it is increasingly difficult to avoid the «accident» of free time that can not be justified
within an
individual's work - oriented world.
They met those problems on the new level of an inter-racial, international fellowship entered by free personal choice, but all subsequent Christian history bears witness to the fact that the adjustment between
society and the
individual, both
within the church and out of it, still remained one of the most crucial problems of mankind.
If any members of the Church including also
individual bishops were to demand that the Church should alter her constitution in a way contradicting her dogmatically defined self - understanding, such movement in favour of change would actually no longer take place
within the Church but outside, for those demanding such a change could no longer belong to the Church in the full sense of a visible
society.
Whereas sociology studies the nature of
society and the interplay between the
individual and
society, education studies the learning ability of man at various stages and tries to find those teaching methods which will be most fruitful in leading the
individual to full maturity
within his
society.
«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle
within the
individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting
society at its deepest levels.
Others believe that the social and cultural fruits of religious awakening will appear gradually if we are patient, arguing that once
individual Christians are spiritually reborn in great numbers, they will inevitably act as salt and leaven
within the
society.
I believe that one of the best routes to the center of Whitehead's perspective is to view his metaphysics as an elaboration of a basic value assumption in which the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations reflect a drive in the universe toward the evocation of greater complexity, deeper intensity, and wider range of contrasts
within the organic unity of an
individual or
society.
He felt that
individuals living
within a
society must obey the rules of the government as well as those laws proscribed by their religion.
It is a vast
society, the widest of all
societies, which lays down the obligation on everything which is that it conform to its very general sort of social order; it socializes into its extensive mold all the
individuals which arise
within it, just as we in our culture «Americanize» all the children born into it.
In our history, in our
society, in our churches, the heterosexual box is that into which girls are pressed into ladies who should marry and who must be held
within the social order as subordinate to husbands, fathers, or father - surrogates — regardless of the unique and
individual capacities, needs, and desires of either women or men.
Only because our species evolved
within such
societies do we now have, each of us, the capacity to experience reflective self - consciousness and develop an
individual identity.
Most
individuals in simpler
societies are better adjusted to those
societies and to their roles
within them.
Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the
individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people
within human
society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.
Paul's answer to the question as to what the vices are that characterize
society as a whole including those who criticize other
individuals within it is found in Romans 1:28 - 32.
The community defined by these two concepts is what our human nature really craves, and what it must have if it is not to be in conflict with itself both
within the
individual and
within society.
Consequently, without routine, social relations
within a
society would be capricious and chaotic, subject to the fluctuations of
individual whim or the expediencies of the moment.
More importantly, it awaits the emergence of a dynamic, responsive agency capable of coordinating the activities of a human
society as a whole,
within which human
individuals might find themselves to be the willing, freely responsive instrumentalities of a higher will.
In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Pope expressed this relationship
within the framework of the common good: «It is urgently necessary, for the future of
society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no
individual, no majority, and no State can ever create, modify, or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect, and promote.»
This gives the
individual who is overwhelmed by the trauma he encounters in
society something to do
within the direction of an answer.»
they are simply reaching out to those
individuals within a religious
society that feel they are being forced into a belief because of others, & that is simply not right in the same way it would not be right for you to eat fast food when you did nt want to & everyone around you is telling you to.
As noted above, the concrescing actual entities
within a given structured
society prehend in different ways a common world, i.e., the concrete interrelatedness of their immediate predecessors together with the common element of form which bound them together as this rather than that
society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their
individual processes of concrescence.
It is doubtful whether social transformations that might open us to the otherness
within society could really become actual unless
individual persons
within that
society simultaneously learn to accept the «shameful» otherness
within themselves.
The state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak
within the concrete structures of human
society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of
individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.
Within a community organized along the lines of a Whiteheadian
society, on the other hand, a single
individual or a small group may indeed speak and act for all the other members as their representatives.
The differentiation between religion and the state that is said to characterize modern
societies, for example, focuses squarely on processes
within individual societies.
But
within any
society that seeks to be just and good, a tension will inevitably arise between
individual freedom and the right of the state to limit freedom for moral and social reasons.
It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent»
within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of
individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or
societies of
individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.
Admittedly, Whitehead seems to solve this problem of the transmission of a common element of form for an ongoing
society of actual occasions in a different way, namely, with his doctrine of objectification whereby
individual concrescing actual entities positively and negatively prehend the eternal objects ingredient in their predecessors
within the same
society and «transmute» them into an eternal object suitable for the
society as a whole (Process 25, 27, 41 - 42).
The prophets after the Exile are of a lesser breed, and most of the authors of the period are anonymous members of the community who give expression to a wide range of religious experience as it comes to
individuals living
within the framework of a religious
society.
For example, «cultural minorities seek more than the right of their
individual members to equality and participation
within the larger
society.
Today the environment
within which most of us live and work is a media environment, an over-arching web of mediated symbols, processes, stories and values that surrounds, gives shape to, and interprets most things we do as
individuals and as a
society.
The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions
within society in such a way that
individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.
Yet it is still true that
within the family is a nucleus of growth, action, and character development which determines largely the course each
individual will take, and through the aggregate of many
individuals the course of
society as a whole.
Either way, homophobia is classed as other: an illiberal force from outside our
society, or a twisted psychological seed from
within an evil
individual.