Sentences with phrase «of civilized society»

The short version of the question, and the one I will address here, is simply: What is the metaphysical status of a civilized society?

Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind.

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.

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.

The identity of a civilized society is likewise completely a matter of the actuality of many, and the potentiality of one, for whatever distinctive qualities a society may manifest it does so purely in terms of the various social enactments and characteristics exhibited by the many individuals who populate that society.

The composite and relational unity of a civilized society is thus constituted in terms of the mutual immanence of individual human beings related to one another by the «sympathetic» character of their experience.

A surplus of goods produced by farmers made possible the beginnings of the city — the characteristic mark of civilized society.

He wrote that «The rule of law is the bedrock of our civilized society, not acts of «civil disobedience» committed in the name of the cause of the day.»

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!

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».

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

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

Since each of the constituent human beings of a civilized society is itself more ultimate metaphysically than is the larger social whole, it follows that a civilized society is really only a relational unity composed of many individuals related as one socially.

The individual constituents are the actual primary units of a civilized society, and therefore the larger society exists solely as a «composite one» and not as an indivisible or atomic one.

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 per se.

Within the range of these three options, the individuality of a civilized society correlates most appropriately to that of the collective individual, the intermediate type.

The various and diverse customs of a civilized society, be they economic, political, religious, etc., essentially organize the assorted activities of individuals into determinate and meaningful relationships, and thus there is «order» in civilized society.

So too, the qualities of endurance, identity, and efficacy, intrinsic to the nature of a civilized society, each exhibit the essential social creativity of one and many.

The efficacy of a civilized society, regardless of its apparent authority in the affairs of individuals, is in reality nothing but the cooperative agency of many persons functioning, either officially or informally, to carry on the daily exercise of accepted practice.

While the quality of endurance does pertain to the society as a whole and not to its constituents per se, nonetheless the reality of that endurance is vested in the many who are solely responsible for bringing about the continuity of social order which ensures the endurance of civilized society.

Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to claim that no other major area of Whitehead's philosophy has received less attention than has his theory of civilized society.

Such a program has as its ultimate consequence a lessening of interest in human reproduction and thus a rending of the intergenerational bond that is the essence of civilized society.

Just as it is the right of civilized society to point out that he is a bigot and that his views are immoral.

Whitehead suggests that the aims of a civilized society are a «fineness of feeling» and a «generality of understanding.

The vigor of civilized societies is «preserved by the wide - spread sense that high aims are worth while» (AI 288).

Anyone who wants to be above the law can be outside of civilized society.

Behaving with decency a freaking tenet of civilized society.

«It is sad the Appeal Court gave this ruling not minding the fact that liberal access to court by citizens is the hallmark of a civilized society.

It wasn't until humans moved past the hunter - gatherer years and into the age of civilized society that marriage and relationships really took on a new role.

The film efficiently dramatizes the road leading to the publishing of Marx and Engel's monumental The Communist Manifesto, the 1848 political pamphlet that diagnosed capitalism as a corrupt construct rather than as an inevitable outgrowth of civilized society.

It's a simple story with some lovely images and a terrific performance by Hayakawa as the simple artistic primitive, but it also reverberates with the cultural arrogance of a civilized society that holds the value of art over individual happiness.

Our inherited moral traditions are the essential elements of civilized society.

Hence, it is an embattled form of faith; fundamentalists believe that they are fighting for their own survival, the survival of the religion, and the survival of civilized society.

There's another angle to the increasingly allowable downfall of civilized society, though, and that's the ongoing discovery of author control.

You can choose to write something more people will enjoy / value, or stick to your guns and complain about the fall of civilized society.

In no other facet of civilized society would something like this be tolerated from a leader of a free people.

I'm old - fashioned enough to regard a nonpartisan civil service as a basic building block of a civilized society.

«Surely 13 years is robust enough experience to clearly show that ABSs do not repeal the rule of law nor herald the decline of civilized society, nor decimate any of the values and ethics of the legal profession.»

Upholding the law and maintaining order has always been at the forefront of any civilized society.

In a recent interview featured on tech / social media news Web site Mashable with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Page opined that much of civilized society is now at a point where many people don't need to work full time in orde...

Now it stands to reason that, given Whitehead's own perspective of the correlation between cosmology and sociology, the key to resolving the issue as to the status of a civilized society should be sought in the context of that more general metaphysical scheme.

We provide clear rules and enforce them calmly — even if it's the umpteenth time that day that we've needed to enforce the same rule — to help students learn to function as members of a civilized society.

Those of us in the field usually know and appreciate that lawyers are the fabric of civilized society, and we ensure that fairness and justice permeate every aspect of society where we are... [more]

Larry Salzman sees property rights as the foundation of a civilized society and prosperity.

Civilized societies do come to manifest various socially peculiar characteristics, in some cases extremely divergent and seemingly strange, as do some Societies, but no social characteristics can ever be more fully exhibited than in the individual persons who enact those peculiarities, and thus the identity of a civilized society is always relative to those enactments.

The social unity of a civilized society is certainly more complex and interrelated than that which a mere aggregate of parts would allow.

These quandaries are made worse by the fact that one of the marks of civilized society is the refusal to take pleasure in punishment.