Sentences with phrase «ordering of society on»

But unless we have to a far greater degree than at present the ordering of society on the basis of the supreme worth of every human being, we shall have repeated outbursts of world tragedy.

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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.»

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The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

Wolin has described how the liberal discontent with all forms of political authority led to a fascination with the idea that economic society could be a «self - adjusting order,» a «network of activities carried on by actors who knew no principle of authority.»

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 control.

Subordinate nexus, on the other hand, are groups of occasions whose character is derived exclusively from the role which they play in the structured society; hence, when and if that «level of social order» dissolves, they, too, go out of existence.

O'Donovan was our Erasmus Lecturer last year, and that was the occasion of a very lively and productive exchange on biblical truth and the right ordering of society.

Samuel Gregg, author of award - winning titles such as Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded, On Ordered Liberty, The Commercial Society, and The Modern Papacy (on John Paul II's and Benedict XVI's social and political thought), highlights Röpke's more humane approach to political economOn Ordered Liberty, The Commercial Society, and The Modern Papacy (on John Paul II's and Benedict XVI's social and political thought), highlights Röpke's more humane approach to political economon John Paul II's and Benedict XVI's social and political thought), highlights Röpke's more humane approach to political economy.

Whereas Leclerc argued that the ultimate constituents of material reality are mini-substances which act on each other reciprocally and by their interaction co-constitute the new reality of a compound substance (NPE, 309 - 10), Ford argues that such natural compounds are instead to be understood as «single strands of personally ordered actual occasions, potentially divisible into structured societies but not actually so divided» (109).

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.

Countries and societies especially the US are carried away with everything under the umbrella of freedom and rights your governments should learn from third world countries true values and laws.certain lines should never be crossed and such movements need to be exterminated for the sake of youngsters that must learn true values and acts in order to be a well being and not end up in jail and on the long run in hell.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» viSociety, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» visociety is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

After some preliminary discussion, I will provide a brief sketch of such a revised theology of orders and, finally, offer some observations on the application of that theology to current discussions of the role of the church in society.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

On the other hand, however, it also becomes evident that the official order of prayer of the Church as a society must also be the prayer of the Church as the people of God in the Holy Spirit.

Moreover, it is arguable that the Whiteheadian analysis of the self is morally unacceptable; for insofar as each momentary self is held responsible for the actions of its predecessors in the personally ordered society of which it is a member, the Whiteheadian analysis involves the Old Testament practice of visiting the sins of the fathers on the sons.

Nevertheless, Whitehead's own writings on the history of society show that «peace» is unstable apart from justice and that the union of zest with peace accounts for the adventurous aim toward transcending the relative justice and injustice of any given social order.

We aim to rediscover and reconstruct a society based on «belief in the ability of human experience to generate the aims and methods by which further experience will grow in ordered richness» (PCM 227).

Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

The same Americans are not in agreement on what that perception of reality should mean in terms of abortion law, but, if we believe in a society governed by democratic discourse and decision, that perception of reality and the consideration of its legal ramifications can not be ruled out of order.

What these various programs do is redistribute the wealth created by a capitalistic system in order to compensate those in the society who are unable to gain an adequate measure of this wealth on their own.

It is a vast society, the widest of all societies, which lays down the obligation on everything which is that it conform to its very general sort of social order; it socializes into its extensive mold all the individuals which arise within it, just as we in our culture «Americanize» all the children born into it.

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.

An open society, on the other hand, is organized on the basis of functional pluralism, in which every person is classified in many different ways, each for a particular purpose, and in which no single general rank order is recognized.

All civilized life depends on the process of ordering, and wherever there are designations of position or office within society there will inevitably be classes.

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.

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.

Because the institutions of education are dependent for support on the society in which they exist, it is natural that they will respond favorably to pressures to confirm and sustain the existing order and find good reasons to eject or suppress those who are too critical of it.

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.

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.

In a secular society in which there is no vertical relationship to some ultimately clarifying, and thus comforting, transcendent standard, one's «position» on the horizontal plane of the social order is also one's meaning, one's very self.

Accordingly, the «order» of a civilized society is «genetically propagated» in terms of commonly accepted and habitually enacted social practices which are passed on from generation to generation, and thus in the most general terms a civilized society is metaphysically constituted as a «social nexus» in a fashion equivalent to that of a Society society is «genetically propagated» in terms of commonly accepted and habitually enacted social practices which are passed on from generation to generation, and thus in the most general terms a civilized society is metaphysically constituted as a «social nexus» in a fashion equivalent to that of a Society society is metaphysically constituted as a «social nexus» in a fashion equivalent to that of a Society Society per se.

Then Whitehead defines an enduring object as «a society whose social order has taken on the special form of «personal order».»

A Society is, in Whitehead's scheme, a type of nexus wherein the relations between its constituents exhibit an ordered relatedness to one another, i.e., some common pattern of relations is manifest wherein the nexus takes on the additional feature of social unity which thus constitutes it as a social nexus, or in Whitehead's terms, a Society per se.

The whole neo-orthodox case against the liberal doctrine that the orders of this world can be transformed into the Kingdom of love rests ultimately on two propositions about the actual situation of man in nature and in society, which we need carefully to examine.

The Faith and Order statement then went on to point out how every social order is limited by the «continuing sinfulness of man» which are meant to protect human beings in socOrder statement then went on to point out how every social order is limited by the «continuing sinfulness of man» which are meant to protect human beings in socorder is limited by the «continuing sinfulness of man» which are meant to protect human beings in society.

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

I think there's a negative stigma on asking for help in our society, but in order to grow and succeed I believe it's entirely necessary to have some sort of coaching!

by the grace of god — jesus may have simply appeared to be anything but the son of god... and thru charm and guise won over the sad and lonely turning humble men into preachers of dreams... he taught them how to look stylish in order to get what they needed while being perfunctory... all the while having the semblance of a godly man doing gods work... for hand outs — lets not forget they were poor, aging people on the fringes of society.

What Whitehead denotes as the «social order» of the higher living beings can no longer be understood on the model of a society with its emphasis on multiplicity, but only on that of an organism focusing on unity.

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

Founded by leading thinker and member of the communist party, Harry Hay, the Mattachine Society members convinced H00ker to embark on a research study of h0m0 on their behalf in order to advance the movement.

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.

Nor is it an ideology, but rather the accurate formulation of the results of a careful reflection on the complex realities of human existence, in society and in the international order, in the light of faith and of the Church's tradition.

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

In a recent reconstructive essay on Hinduism, Sudhanshu Ranade suggests a connection between the not - so - noble function of «the political branch of Hinduism» in Vedic times, and «the trap the BJP is leading us into today».9 This involves the task of consolidating a hierarchically - ordered socio - political structure for Hindu society reflecting true religious Dhanna and controlling these classes / castes in order «to keep people in their place [so as] to keep them from getting above themselves».10 Perhaps this is the reason that nationalism, in its Orientalist form, is so pervasive in contemporary India.

Tubbs has his finger on a central tension in any liberal political order: Because a free society requires morally responsible citizens who won't abuse their liberties, that same society must take serious interest in the development of children.

The very great advantage to this «system» was that society was organized on a classical and Christian tradition that understood the tension of human existence, in right order, as a function of Plato's metaxy, e.g. the movement of consciousness between immanence and transcendence.