Sentences with phrase «is a civilized society»

It is fitting then that the final issue to be resolved regarding the status of a civilized society should concern the question of the creativity of one and many, e.g., is a civilized society a «one» or a «many» metaphysically?

The pertinent question then becomes: To what extent is a civilized society a real instance of this more technical class of derivative existent?

Perhaps the simplest and most apt designation would be: a civilized society is a civilized Society.

But in what way is a civilized society a special case of Society?

Make no mistake, this is central to the attack on the price we pay for being the civilized society we like to believe we are.»

Not exact matches

«Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society» (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes).

Separately, Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, is circulating a letter among his colleagues, calling on the A.T.F. to re-evaluate bump stocks, which he said had «no place in civilized society.»

Religion is a poison to civilized society, and we need to stop kissing people's butts constantly when they insist on shoving it in our faces at inappropriate times like these guys did on this flight.

Because if you ever truly read the Bible, there are passages that actually condone slavery, however as a civilized society, most of us with an endearment to our fellow human being decide that slavery is wrong, regardless or religious endorsement of any kind.

This CNN forum, and the vitriol it has induced, is a good example of precicesly why a civilized society keeps religion out of the public forum... (and for the record, the high stress atmosphere of an airplane is clearly a particularly bad forum to inject religion).

While in a democratic system the majority gets to set the rules, in a civilized society no minority is denied equal protection.

I also know taxes are necessary for civilized society, but that doesn't make prying a third of my income from my stingy mitts any more joyous.

Civilized society requires that all men and women have equal rights before the law, but that equality should not extend to equality of condition: that is, society is a great partnership, in which all have equal rights — but not to equal things.

The more impoverished a society is the more religious they are, and the more civilized the less religious they become.

Go through the posts and observe their sizes, and make no post that is any longer than the others — this is the first principle of civilized living in society.

Eye for an eye was a «civilized» control of the society at that time.

They also acknowledged that the Seven Laws of Noah are the foundation upon which civilization stands and that recent weakening of these principles threaten the fabric of civilized society, and that justified preoccupation in educating the Citizens of the United States of America and future generations is needed.

There is some diversity which is unwelcome, and deeply contrary to civilized society.

Don't you really mean below, cause if you are reading messages newest to oldest (like the rest of civilized society) you would not know what people are planning to say!

Anyone who follows biblical morals is unfit for a civilized society.

«Worship» is a primitive paradigm that may work for nomadic goat herders but is repugnant and a perversion in civilized society whether it be hollywood worship, sports team worship, political party worship or deity worship.

I won't go into great detail about why I oppose this re-definition that most civilized societies have accepted as the normal... based on religious and spiritual basis that marriage was between a man and a woman.

Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion of honor, a notion of honor that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.»

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

In a press release, organizers said the event was focused on promoting Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, which encompasses five basic principles that include belief in one God, just and civilized society, unity and democracy.

I am saying, for one thing, that violence is the general rule for the existence of societies — including the societies that call themselves civilized but have only camouflaged violence by explaining and justifying it and putting a good face on it.

We are now a civilized and modern society and religion is just a relic of ancient times which which will soon disappear all together like every fad does.

Stand firm, for it is you, and not your opponents, who are showing «active sympathy for the weak» (to borrow the Nietzschean phrase without adopting the Nietzschean critique); and you also, not your opponents, who are defending lawful law and the moral foundations of civilized society.

using women and children as shield to protect weapons of war is evil in any civilized society.

It is a result of a more civilized society that they are kept in check, not because your religion is so much better.

This right, like all others, is afforded to individuals of a civilized society by their society.

Beheading someone for no reason other than to make a political point is evil in any civilized society.

Religion is harmful to society and civilized life and should be banished.

There can be little doubt that in civilized societies at the present time the stress is put on living as well as one can in the present moment or for a fairly short future.

Opposing view, Also, in civilized society the torture of prisoners is considered inhumane and barbaric.

All civilized life depends on the process of ordering, and wherever there are designations of position or office within society there will inevitably be classes.

A new U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower, stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

and the more of them there are, the more we can come together and accept that the concept of «blasphemy» really is something that can not be tolerated by a lawful and civilized society.

It is reasonable to suppose that parallel with these new developments in society there was also the emergence of a new structure of existence, a structure that distinguishes civilized man from his primitive ancestors.

There are norms and values in every civilized society and one has to abide by that.Muslims respect Jesus as much as they respect Muhammed (PBUH).

On all too many occasions, hanging would truly be «too good for him,» but that familiar phrase reminds us how far civilized law restrains itself from meting out thoroughgoing retribution, presumably for reasons that must supersede society's legitimate concern for reciprocity, proportionality and just deserts.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

The purpose of the economy, according to Keynes, is to control the material basis of a civilized society, enabling its citizens to explore the higher dimensions of human existence, to discover their own full potential.

The quality of endurance, therefore, is no less relevant to the status of a civilized society than it is to that of a Society society than it is to that of a Society Society per se.

In the case of a civilized society, the principles of «order» and «genetic propagation» are no less fundamental as regards its status as an existent thing than are those same principles required of a Society society, the principles of «order» and «genetic propagation» are no less fundamental as regards its status as an existent thing than are those same principles required of a Society Society per se.

On the other hand, it is certainly the case that a civilized society does not exhibit any type of overriding unity greater than that which is manifest by the many individual efforts of its constituents.

There is no centrally consolidated social experience which has dominion over the affairs of society as a whole; and consequently, a civilized society is not a subject as such, either structurally or functionally.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

The issue concerning the extent to which a civilized society manifests a certain «identity» of social character — that is, the extent to which it is a self - identical entity — can likewise be resolved by comparison to a Society society manifests a certain «identity» of social character — that is, the extent to which it is a self - identical entity — can likewise be resolved by comparison to a Society Society per se.