Men must think of the whole range of biosocial conditions which pertain to the realization of the potentialities of individuals in a justly
ordered society living in harmonious union with the planetary environment.
Not exact matches
After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the
Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise
in New York
in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city
life.»
It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical
society, since a CEO
in civilian
life may end up taking
orders from a taxi driver
in the service, as well as future business partnerships.
He was appointed an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire (OBE)
in the 2007 New Year Honours and is a
Life Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts (FRSA).
In our globalized and technocratic age, we're often told, «we need expert management of monetary, trade, and tax policy, not collective deliberation about how, as a
society, we are to
order our common
life.»
In any case, in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of contro
In any case,
in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of contro
in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks
in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of contro
in Process and Reality on
societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of
societies within the current world
order,
in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of contro
in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic
societies, and, among organic
societies, those with a «soul» or «
living person» and those without such a central organ of control.
Hence, even
in this highly complex case, it is the collective agency of the entire structured
society or overall field of activity which is at work to support a «thread of personal
order» among the
living occasions.
Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate
society, i.e., a set of personally
ordered occasions which provide continuity
in time for the patterns already generated
in large part by nexus of
living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.
Commenting on Whitehead's doctrine of structured
societies at the cellular level, John Cobb remarks: «Whitehead at that point was forced to explain the
order in the cell
in terms of its molecular structure, to which spontaneity was denied, and to explain the
life of the cell
in terms of the events
in its empty space, which he depicted as radically unordered.
There is ultimate truth, and if our
lives are not
ordered to that truth then our
lives, and ultimately
society, will be disordered because it is not grounded
in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intellect.
Brilliant minds of the
order of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, John Von Newman, W. Ross Ashby, and Stafford Beer, among many others, provided the conceptual structures for the multidisciplinary methodology of the systems approach.2 Incredible advances
in computers,
in league with sophisticated instruments of systems analysis, play an ever increasing role
in shaping the
life style and the world view of contemporary
society along the lines suggested by systems theory.
Then the social - ethical task of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative
society that manifests
in its own social and political
life the way
in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first
order of business.
As for the ex - girlfriend / fiance, he's not the first gay who has tried to play the part of a straight
in order to fit
in with
society, but no one is ever happy
living a lie.
Morality is a construct by humans
in order for the
society in which we are
living to operate
in an effective and fair (as much as we can make it at the time) manner.
Partly under the impact of constant conditioning
in consumerism, people
in western democratic
societies increasingly are putting together their own religious belief and
life - style packages
in order to meet individual needs.
Within that tradition, both
in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of
ordering power within a community
in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of
life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives
order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular
society in question.
Something deep and universal
in the human person needs hope
in order to
live, and many things
in our
society masquerade as hope but are not.
We don't
live in a secular
society; we
live in a pagan
society that is resistant to the gospel, a gospel which calls the church to perpetual criticism of the social and political
order.
When
society is
ordered, or perhaps more correctly we should say disordered, on the basis of a situation
in which not only is there starvation as the aftermath of war but millions of people are hungry all their
lives, there can be no just and lasting peace.
He added that he had often been a customer of the café and the city was «used to
living in a peaceful, tolerant and secure
society in which people may enter a café and
order a hot chocolate without fear».
these are distinct religious groups that choose to
live apart (more of less) from the main of
society in order to keep their non-violent
life style and sequestered religious training intact.
Yet
society need only forego this one form of punishment
in order to assure that it will not itself take an innocent
life or prematurely cancel the possibility of the wrongly convicted person's experiencing vindication.
So much is this true that the total separation of faith and religion from
life and culture became a cardinal principle of a new outlook, now called The Philosophy of Science, the doctrine of which is that nothing is valid
in society,
in community law, or
in educational principle, unless it belongs to the experimental
order and can be proven by the senses.
The secondary freedom
in the study of economics consists
in the deployment of a variety of models of man and
society,
in order to gain a wider range of perspectives on the complex events of economic
life and to experiment
in imagination with new and possibly better ways of directing economic planning.
In moving from this well - ordered but repressive society to forms of social life which enable these dimensions of the human spirit to emerge in more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettlin
In moving from this well -
ordered but repressive
society to forms of social
life which enable these dimensions of the human spirit to emerge
in more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettlin
in more concrete relationships, we must be prepared to
live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettling.
On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void
in the
lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing
in these silly myths
in order to have a reason to do good things and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our
society and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great reward for themselves or some great punishment after death
in order to motivate them to be good.
The most pressing question for Muslims
in many lands is how to
order the
life of the community
in a
society that is not governed according to Muslim law and
in which Muslims must conceive of their religion, at least
in part, as equivalent to a voluntary association.
The Words of Christ Jesus are prescious to the Worldly Infirmed
in order that they might be able to Cope with their rather; Non-Opulent
Living arrangements
in societies around the world.
Fourth, the resources of both the political
order and the voluntary groups
in society must be used to bring healing and mercy to broken
lives.
By a Christian
society, he did not mean one that was composed solely of Christians, but one
in which human
life is
ordered to ends that are befitting the true God.
Let's turn our attention for a moment to the elephant
in the
living room, or should I say the «alleged» elephant, since Cardinal Dulles refers to «the alleged increase of homosexual tendencies among younger members
in the
Society of Jesus as well as
in other religious
orders and diocesan seminaries.»
We ask if these characteristics, rather than being somehow connected
in a particular way to Jesuits, are not rather widespread ills of priestly and religious
life in this age, to which the
Society of Jesus, like many other
orders, is not immune.
While Calvin seems to see more clearly than Luther the need for reforming the
orders of the world guided by love and justice, both Reformers see the organization of
society in terms which we know are far too simple
in the light of the later history of democratic forms of political
life.
Hence to see the cell as governed by a single personally
ordered society would deny the
life and spontaneity which was the reason for turning to the occasions
in the empty spaces.
This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant «
life form»
in order to safeguard polite
society against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire character of the afflicted: «Nothing that went into [the homosexual's] total composition was unaffected by his sexuality.
In this connection he considered the possibility that the living occasions in the cell might constitute a single personally ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attribute
In this connection he considered the possibility that the
living occasions
in the cell might constitute a single personally ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attribute
in the cell might constitute a single personally
ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single
living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attributed.
This process of development is seen
in all parts of the world, as for example
in India and
in China, so very different one from the other yet moving toward compassion as the key to
life (
in India) or family affection and mutual concern
in an
ordered society as that key (as
in China).
A plant and a man differ, however,
in that the latter is a
society dominated by a serially
ordered society of
living occasions within it.
The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only
in the eternal
order... The primary principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the
society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles of a Christian social
order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a
life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through Justice — which
in the field of industrial disputes means
in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...
The Coalition is calling for a one - day strike of professors and students at Harvard Law School
in order to advance «the issue of «normalization,» or making our school look more like the
society in which we
live.»
Finally,
in the third successive issue of Process Studies (28.1 - 2), Duane Voskuil likewise critiques Oomen's hypothesis
in the light of his own commitment to a Hartshornean understanding of God as a «personally
ordered»
society of actual occasions
in which there are successive satisfactions corresponding to each sequential moment of the divine
life.
By a plural
society is meant one «comprising two or more elements or social
orders which
live side by side, yet without mingling,
in one political unit» (Politics
in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability, by Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth A. Shepsle [Merrill, 1972].
To say that we shall not make a perfect
society in the next century or the next millennium is no excuse for failure to do our best to create an
order relatively better than the one
in which we now
live.
It is obvious that the media of communication have some role to play
in the development and shape of a
society's
life and functioning, but how can that role be adequately conceptualised
in order to formulate policy that protects the social fabric from abuses while enhancing positive aspects of the relationship?
We
live in a secular
society where everyone must «bend» their religious doctrine
in order to
live together.
First, since human
society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to
live out a radically different form of community, one
in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic
order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.
My hypothesis is that very few «postliberal»: pastors, theologians, or laypeople use biblical symbols, analogies, metaphors or explanations as their first
order of discourse
in dealing with
life in society, history or nature.
The Wittenberg Luther found on leaving his refuge disturbed him deeply and led him to voice caution to the forces of change
in both church and secular
life, and to produce a flow of pastoral writings on all manner of subjects intended to restore
order to Germanic
society.
The Southerner believed that he
lived in a well -
ordered society that was comparable to a body
in which each
living part played a certain role or performed a particular function.
In a
society dominated by Instinct social
order predominates at the expense of novelty and
life.