Sentences with phrase «of established society»

What makes radical Islam (at least in the context of Western societies), part of the far left is that it seeks a revolutionary overthrow of the established society, order and values.

All of these movements share a very negative image of established society as sunk in materiialism and heading for disaster.

(2) «Religion sacralizes the norms and values of established society, maintaining the dominance of group goals over individual wishes, and of group disciplines over individual impulses.»

Chambers played an important role in the events that led to the Academy's foundation, [10] the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Royal Academy of 14 December 1768 record «That some time towards the latter end of November 1768, Mr Chambers waited upon the King and informed him that many artists of reputation together with himself are very desirous of establishing a Society that should more effectively promote the Arts of Design».

Not exact matches

You're challenger bank or building society might have a different opinion to some of the more established banks.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

The company claims (through its website) to focus on «environmentally safe solutions [that] benefit society and enhance the daily lives of the consumer,» with the goal «to establish a leading position in the E [lectric] V [ehicle] industry.»

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During a trip to India in 2016, I experienced firsthand how the benefits of doing good are well established in Indian society.

On May 9, Putin signed the Strategy for the Development of an Information Society for 2017 — 2030.91 Based on the Russian government's desire to establish «sovereignty» over the Russian portion of the internet, the strategy postulates that Russia must have the capacity to produce its own software and hardware independently, with all core information infrastructure ultimately under state control.

The groups calling on the province to establish Grand and Goose Island provincial parks are Pine Creek First Nation, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), and the Wilderness Committee.

Do you see governments getting into this in terms of establishing cashless societies based on cryptocurrencies by using government based cryptocurrencies?

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was concluded there was concern about Mexican labour and environmental standards; side agreements were established around these topics, allowing civil society to raise complaints under the terms of the agreement.

Using concepts from a long time ago, thought of by another society to set - up a relatively new country and doing so on the backs of slave labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.

Morals come from an evolved social construct, or set of rules established by society in order for a group of a species to work together in harmony for the greater good of the group and therefore the individual.

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

We may never stop and say, «Now justice is established, now we have set up a valid society in which we can peaceably await the coming of the Lord.»

I ask only this: Let us apply the two commandments absolutely; let us apply them without sophistical attempts to weaken their binding power, without taking account of the established values, orders, salaries, classes — and then we shall see the whole society fall to pieces, without violence.

«The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization».

It is clear then that a state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.

Like the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which Madison authored a few years later, it was a Madisonian addendum to the Lockean ideal of liberal toleration in a society with an established church.

Of course, liberalism is not literally becoming a religion — but it is approaching the question of society's moral order from the point of view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarOf course, liberalism is not literally becoming a religion — but it is approaching the question of society's moral order from the point of view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarof society's moral order from the point of view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarof view of a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public squarof a dominant, established power that expects to command formal assent to its views in the public square.

The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge established 1,500 charity schools for such students, and George Whitefield and the Wesleys preached to them.

That is all the Christian can ask of this man — that he be aware that violence will never establish a just society.

No society has a right to require a religious profession as the condition of establishing a family.

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 social doctrine provided the alternative to the Marxist notion that revolution and the collectivizing of the means of the production would establish a just society in which charity is superfluous.

There are hopeful signs of an attempt to bridge the differences between the sects by means similar to those encouraged by the Society for the Reconciliation of Muslim Sects which was established a few years ago in Cairo.

Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel presents not a world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings — to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

Here, Wilson confronts the philosoher's dilemma, where even if we can establish the best order of society within his «traditional conservatism» we are still «burdened» with the imperfections of a citizenry beset by sundry diseases of the mind, not to mention the soul.

Key to the concerns of Christians on both sides has been the desire to establish a fairer and godlier society.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the life of parish and clan in a society where there are no longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and culture, and no longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

After forty years of persecutions, the Church was in a markedly weak state when it faced the mountain of new tasks in the new society, and it was not able to establish its priorities and take advantage of its new possibilities.

One answer has been that of revolutionary transformation, in which established orders of society are challenged and overthrown, and traditional modes of grouping people are discarded.

Thus, individuals and societies need a system of values by which to live; the nature and pace of modern cultural transformations have cut men adrift from the security of established ideals.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

The theory that human beings in pursuit of their own interests will automatically establish a harmonious society, provided everyone has an equal voice in political affairs, is no more true than the corresponding thesis in economic affairs.

William Penn of the Society of Friends first established religious liberty in the colonies and supplied the Christian rationale for it.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

It is a test of whether republican liberty established in a remote agrarian backwater of the world in the 18th century shall prove able or willing to confront successfully the age of mass society and international revolution.

Our society is established on a system of reinforcement, yet we don't want to apply it where it is needed most: with young children.

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

But even before they had freed themselves from the bonds of English society they had undertaken an «Agreement» in Cambridge, England, the year before and bound themselves to a new covenant with obligations both to God and one another.16 The «Agreement» of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a beginning that contained its own principle, just as, as we have seen, the acts establishing the new republic did.

Even in advanced Western societies like the United States, where the principle is well understood and established, the ability to buy more law than your neighbor is a ubiquitous source of inequality.

George Lindbeck, in his seminal little book, The Nature of Doctrine, has expressed our present ecclesiastical situation vis - «a-vis our society in the clearest possible way: we are, he says, «in the awkwardly intermediate stage of having once been culturally established but... not yet clearly disestablished.»

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.