Sentences with phrase «moral standards of society»

And the result may be that we would continue to lose, the secular - atheistic Democrats would win, and the moral standards of society would continue to deteriorate.

In the Greco - Roman world of the first century, the Christian church was not the only agency which aimed at elevating the moral standards of society.

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The encyclical warned of four resulting trends: a general lowering of moral standards throughout society; a rise in infidelity; a lessening of respect for women by men; and the coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments.

All civilized societies regardless of the times have gained «moral» standards from their respective deities (Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Incan, Myan, etc.).

It is not farfetched to suggest that the depletion of spiritual capital accounts for the breakdown of moral standards in our society.

On the one hand, it is drawing all nations and cultures into one global conglomeration which has the capacity to formulate some common moral standards that might enable us to eliminate the wars of the past and establish a stable global society.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

Today there is a widespread loosening of moral standards that formerly held society to something like a common moral code.

Mike's moral standard derives from his society, but that society just maintains and transmits a standard that has been developed progressively throughout history primarily with the help of religious thought.

For instance, known Jewish forms for receiving proselytes show parallels to elements in the Christian catechesis, such as the insistence upon a radical reorientation of moral standards, and upon membership in a society carrying solemn obligations; such, again, as the recital of typical commandments which the convert will be expected to observe, and the warning of the danger of persecution» with demands for constancy.

In this is rooted their sense of sin, not simply as ordinary infraction of the moral standards of a primitive society, but as rebellion against God and an affront to his holiness.

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

These philosophers also believed that people were basically virtuous; they supposed that improved standards of living, and habits rationally modified by knowledge, would lead to gradually rising moral standards in society.

Citing the rise of child pornography and sexual tourism, he concludes that moral standards in society at large have broken down.»

More importantly, however — and more in keeping with the Durkheimian spirit of this chapter — one can ask if any agency in American society has been required to express those moral standards.

Secondly, Bush's compassionate conservatism was a moralising doctrine, which assumed that society's basic moral standards were in decline and set the federal government the task of improving them.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

With an increased focus on connecting educational leadership to student learning, creating cultures of improvement, and other big picture concepts, the standards can be seen, in part, as a force for helping principals remind us as a nation that the moral purpose of educational change is to improve society and the lives of its citizens, especially those most in need.

The mission of Dogs Deserve Better comprises the following six principals: advocate and become a voice for dogs living chained or penned outside; educate society to evolve to higher ethical and moral standards for the treatment of dogs living under these conditions; meet with caretakers of dogs chained outside to advocate on behalf of the dogs and discuss other options available to them; fence yards to improve the quality of life for these dogs; provide low - cost or no - cost housetraining for dogs whose caretakers wish to bring them into the home; temporarily foster and find new homes for dogs whose caretakers wish them to have a better life, but are unwilling or unable to provide that for them.