Sentences with phrase «moral values of the society»

You can be a person who does not believe in God and still behave according to major ethical and moral values of the society you live in, but to follow a faith requires a belief in God.

Not exact matches

Should our society's dialogue about values proceed in the context of the Constitution, and more particularly, in the arena of constitutional litigation with primacy given to the courts as moral tutors?

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life, language, beliefs, moral values, models of a virtuous life, views of the past, the persistence of an aristocratic culture» in all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of them.

All of them use the current values of secular society as the point of reference against which to present the moral teachings of the Catholic faith.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

And a society that believes this must, at least implicitly, embrace and subtly advocate a very particular moral metaphysics: the unreality of any «value» higher than choice, or of any transcendent Good ordering desire towards a higher end.

We have lost the feeling of security that our forebears experienced when their society was still permeated by the social and moral values provided by the religious tradition concerned.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

When those fundamental values are translated into concrete moral choice, the resulting norm may in fact differ from one historical situation to another — from the premonarchic agricultural setting in Israel to the affluence of the eighth century to the period of Hellenistic or Roman domination to today's secularized society.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

This challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.

It is they, perhaps more than schoolteachers and parents, who set the intellectual and moral tone of the society and suggest the values that shall govern the conduct of life.

Also along with this comes the lack of moral values that have been lost due to today's work crazy society, extreme interest on financial well being and the lack of moral and religious principles.

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.»

Doesn't the Chinese government advocate a return to Confucianism and traditional Chinese values to deal with the moral crisis of Chinese society?

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

This renewal requires a commitment to fundamental values within a framework of belief - in this case Christian faith - that is in dialogue with other frameworks.49 From a similar perspective, Robin Gill sees the primary function of the church in society as that of generating «key values which alter the fundamental moral, social, and political vision.»

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.»

When policies do not presume or promote objective values, the resulting moral relativism, instead of leading to a society that is free, fair, just and compassionate, tends instead to produce frustration, despair, selfishness and a disregard for the life and liberty of others.

My own hope is that the religions of the world will come together to affirm the spiritual and moral values on which a new world society needs to be based.

Heightened awareness of the link between cultural problems and moral irresponsibility has spawned a nearly universal condemnation of the «war on values» being waged in American society.

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

Secondly, Christians and Muslims need, together with members of other faiths, to reflect on the values that they share and on the moral basis of a healthy society and a just and peaceful international order.

William Glasser captured the sum and substance of the quest for our own day as early as 1969 when he stated that «certain moral values can be taught in school if the teaching is restricted to principles about which there is essentially no disagreement in our society» (emphasis added).

That is why atheists who call themselves «good» are, in truth, merely cherry - picking their values / morals from the values / morals considered by the vast, religious majority of society to be «good».

With such a moral heritage, combining both high value and narrow limitation, the tribes of Israel entered Palestine and, after a long conflict with the previous inhabitants, settled down to adjust and synthesize their cultural traditions in the midst of the much more complicated agricultural and urban society which they had conquered.

Advocating censorship as a solution ignores the complexity of associated issues of freedom of speech and questions of imposition of one particular set of moral values in a socially and morally pluralistic society.

Beneath this is the question of whether a society needs some shared moral values.

As Americans in a pluralistic society, however, we must create a milieu for moral decision - making that is somewhere between value conferred by intention or relation alone, and the abstract mystical fetishism that deifies the substance of human life in and of itself.

«A society which limits itself - and its education - to a positivistic understanding of reason [limited to what can be positively seen] will find itself unable to determine shared moral principles and values.

In its summary, the Commission 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.»

Society is built on abstract ideas, science, and technology, not a moral code of values and ethics.

A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large.

She charged the students on the need to imbibe the spirit of moral values, describing them as the agent of positive change in the society.

The British Humanist Association has condemned remarks made by Prime Minister David Cameron, in which he stated that Britain was a Christian country, that it was only as a Christian country that Britain could be welcoming of those of other religions, and that Christian values could reverse British society's «moral collapse».

Buratai, in a remark at a security stakeholders's meeting on Thursday in Wukari, Taraba State, said that restoring moral values to youths was crucial to addressing crime and increasing rate of insecurity in the society.

Often ethics in science teaching is primarily connected to internal scientific values as opposed to moral values in relation to science and the rest of society.

Being in a perpetual state of war is damaging to the intangible elements of society, such as ethics, values, norms and morals.

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.

Joel Spring observes, «The combination of moral and political instruction meant that the student leaving the common school would share with fellow students a set of moral and political beliefs; the result would be the creation of a society with a consensus of political and moral values.»

Since around the middle of the twentieth century, society has witnessed a marked decline in spiritual and moral values throughout the Western World, including a distinct weakening of traditional sexual mores.

The Tri County Humane Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals believes animals, as living creatures, have value beyond economic measure and are entitled to legal, moral, ethical consideration, and protection.

Ferguson added: «This research may help society focus on issues that really matter and avoid devoting unnecessary resources to the pursuit of moral agendas with little practical value.»

My sense from reading some of the criticism directed at the Law Society is that the critics are uncomfortable with the Law Society imposing moral values on its licensees: because the value and parameters of inclusion, equality and diversity are contested and unclear, the Law Society ought not to require its members to acknowledge a duty to promote them.

So - called «general» or «non-economic» damages in civil claims where someone is killed are awarded based upon California Civil Jury Instruction 3921, which states that a jury must come up with a dollar figure value for the loss of, «love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, moral support.»

An understanding of, and commitment to, these values and the development of the skills to uphold and promote them throughout society provides an opportunity for students in Australia to be active and informed citizens who act with moral and ethical integrity.