Sentences with phrase «only by coercion»

Without a common theological narrative to sustain the demands of real virtue, traditionalists believe, moral community collapses and society is held together only by coercion and violence.

Not exact matches

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Only violence is effectual in the face of exploitation, coercion and oppression by the rich and their governments.

13:1 — 14) and Christ himself (John 19:11), followed by Augustine, Innocent III, Pius V, Pius XII, and, to add that unsentimental woman, Elizabeth Anscombe («civil society is the bearer of rights of coercion»), would send the sensitive professor to a fainting couch, revived only by what he thinks is the plausibility of Derrida.

In 1998, however, a meta - analysis in Psychological Bulletin found that most victims of pedophilia turned out only «slightly less well adjusted» than the average adult, with the probability of maladjustment being influenced by the degree of physical force or coercion present in pedophilic encounters.

Religious individualism, then, leads to a purely secular society which can be held together only by external coercion.

«It would not do to excuse a mother for the grossly evil habits of her child by appealing to her use of persuasion only, when sometimes there have been Situations in which some coercion was morally required» (PS 2/1, 45).

Freedom exists in a situation in which there is only persuasion being used by the agents involved with no application of the coercion of rewards and penalties produced by voluntary manipulation of the environment.

He is critical of the way they defeat self - learning (the only real learning) and stifle creativity by their built - in coercion and by seeing the student as the passive, dependent recipient of the «knowledge» transmitted by the teacher.

The ONLY legal authority for government intervention in such private loan contracts is fraud or criminal coercion by either borrower / lender.

They could only ever get their way by coercion and force.

But Maine's new version of Rule 7.3 narrowly tailors the restriction only to where it's needed: for «non-commercial clients» where the solicitation by the lawyer «involves or has substantial potential of harassing conduct, coercion, duress, compulsion, intimidation or unwarranted promises of benefits.»

Prostitution is a good example: forbidding prostitution that does not involve violence, coercion, deceit or any other infringement of sexual self - determination, physical integrity or the protection of minors and other defenseless persons is only motivated by the moral judgement of a society.

Québec solidaire's proposal would only ban the wearing of visible religious signs by persons in authority, such as judges, prosecutors, police officers, prison guards and others who exercise coercion on behalf of the state.