Sentences with phrase «own ideas of justice»

We are so focused on the invisible hand of the market, we'd forgotten about this idea of justice and this moral dimension of markets.

It also forms the idea of justice; through our empathy for other humans, we seek to mete out punishment to wrongdoers on the same level of seriousness as the crimes they have committed.

As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justly.

Everyone's ideas of justice are on a spectrum, but I'd sum of my own in the fewest words by saying to follow the concept of the Golden Rule, which most Christians love to preach but don't follow.

I have needed men and women to walk with me as I move on this made - up idea of the justice alphabet, they are the ones who have created bridges for me to cross, space for me to grow in real and meaningful ways.

Under such influences as these, the social mass lost its indiscriminateness and the constituent persons emerged into clarity and importance, until the ideas of justice associated with the old social solidarity became intolerable.

But modern ideas of justice to the individual were not in the background of the Old Testament's thought, and nowhere in the Bible does «atonement» mean what modern theologies, presupposing modern legal systems, have made it mean.

Or, in the case of John Rawls, they are behind a pre-social «veil of ignorance» making deals with one another according to their calculated self - interest and thus bringing «society,» with its key idea of justice, into being.

The ecumenical movement articulated as social middle axiom the idea of free society, the idea of responsible society, and the idea of just, participatory, and sustainable society, and then the idea of justice, peace and integrity of creation throughout its recent history.

When we say something like «God loves each of us the same» we are promoting our own ideas of justice as complete equity.

Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist — in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless — I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality — namely my idea of justice — was full of sense.

Equality, then, governs the idea of justice.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

That's a far cry from religious dictates that often present a god whose idea of justice is eternal torture for those who aren't in the club..

Nothing seems to contradict more the popular idea of justice than this teaching of Jesus on forgiveness.

The God of the Bible is free and dangerous, offending our human sense of propriety and our human ideas of justice both negatively and positively.

It should in fairness be said, however, that the reason for this contrast does not lie in the superiority of the modern mind but rather in the long - accumulated presuppositions with which we start and the area of human relationships within which our ideas of justice move.

For how else are we to carry a certain idea of justice or goodness to extremes if not by conforming our judgment of eminence to the testimony given outside of us in history by the words, the deeds, and the lives of certain exceptional people who are not necessarily famous, but who testify by their excellence to that very way of eminence that reflection attempts to reproduce in itself and for itself?

Everyday examples of such would be a cat's color, a tree's size, or a person's idea of justice.

In the second place, this anonymous book says, that this slaughter was done by the express command of God: but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit.

This understanding of agape as regard carries to his understanding of justice which finds equalitarian ideas of justice overlapping with agape.

The first volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, Andrew Rawnsley's own story of New Labour, The End of the Party, David Willetts's critique of the baby boomer generation, The Pinch, and Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice shared third place.

«Dan would never do something like Eric did with Al Sharpton and say that he will have an annex for Sharpton's idea of justice.

How we form those beliefs is based on an idea of justice, a consideration of how particular actions affect others.

We discussed the fact that that YTTs need to talk about these ideas of justice, body - acceptance and plurality FIRST.

Wakanda is a place, but in Coogler's view it's also a state of mind, an idealized transnational black consciousness where competing ideas of justice, solidarity, and militancy play out.

But this time the straight - arrow cop (Keanu Reeves) is a dark knight — a vengeful lone wolf who will do anything to bring the bad guys to his own personal idea of justice, whatever the cost.

Police Chief Chang's (Vithaya Pansringarm) idea of justice is to lock Billy in a room with the deceased's father for him to retaliate on Billy by beating him to death.

The film explores the ideas of justice and vigilantism.

It also acts as a send - up to the curator's armchair ideas of justice and equality.

When I spoke to him on April 20, 2012, the whole idea of justice and... Read More»

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

That's a twisted, distorted idea of justice.

The words that are left behind can be rearranged into a poem of their own making that reflects ideas of justice.

You get a glimpse of their strategy, their ulterior motives, and their idea of justice.

In an earlier column I noted that we use the idea of justice in two different ways.

Mere considerations of form should not prohibit us from hewing closer to the idea of justice, or in this case, of democracy.

Some radical ideas that came to me on a Saturday morning: (1) States Parties: set up a Global Justice Research Fund to support a well directed and sustained quest for multidisciplinary knowledge about the core idea of a justice component and how it can be achieved: what are the components of justice connected to atrocities, what is connected with what, what tools can be developed to measure and learn, and how can we make better use of technology.

Every state has some sort of system in place to collect child support from a so - called «dead beat» parent, and these systems should be made use of instead of a custodial parent's foggy idea of justice.

It makes a mockery of the law and our idea of justice.»

Not exact matches

The airline industry is one that wants to consolidate further but views the likelihood of a Department of Justice approval as low so has largely written off the idea in recent years, the analyst contended.

They also argue that the amnesty the South African government granted to perpetrators of human rights under apartheid in exchange for their testimony before the Truth Commission compromised justice and could be defended only if it were necessary for a transition to democracy, not by any idea of reconciliation.

His greatest gift, so it was said, was his espousal of the idea of a «living Constitution,» whereby (in his words) Justices would adapt the Constitution «to cope with current problems and current needs.»

fred, Your idea of perfect justice must be different than mine.

«Perfect Justice» for you may mean cutting off your wife's hand if she touches the genitals of someone ATTACKING you, but God's ideas certainly don't ALL jibe with those of most INTELLIGENT people.

In this statement, the prologue to the Gospel of John, Gadamer discovered «an idea that is not Greek and does more justice [than Greek ideas] to the being of language.»

bostontola «Your idea of perfect justice must be different than mine.

Although the argument is a mere two sentences, it aptly summarizes why many Christians are no help in the pursuit of racial justice, and it is loaded with a myriad of bad ideas — an impressive accomplishment for 11 words.

Again, no one is claiming that Thomas's position is identical with Scalia's, but, given what the great Catholic theologian had to say about the limits of judicial authority in reference to the written law, his position is far closer to that of the late justice than to the idea of a «living» or «evolving» Constitution so ubiquitous today.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.