Sentences with phrase «own social arrangements»

De Rougemont pays little attention to the social arrangements in feudal society which brutalized human marriage by founding it on political and economic convenience.

Charity understood as relief of a particular need until new social systems can eliminate that need altogether becomes even more crucial when envisioned radical change of social arrangements is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future, let alone in the lifetime of those who care and are cared for.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

We can not allow laws, social arrangements and psychological adaptations designed for this age to corrupt our vision of the one who is «not God of the dead, but of the living.»

The problem wasn't merely the grossly imbalanced social arrangement of Spanish lord and Indian slave.

Deceptions subvert the moral life, and destroy the foundations of our social arrangements.

People are forced by social arrangements and expectations based on prejudice into situations that make the intrinsically irrational and arbitrary racial distinctions to some degree justified.

Hartshorne notes that an important ethical objection to classical theism is that it tends toward a faith which disarms criticism of and struggle against predominant social arrangements.

The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form of social life — the voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.

But these explanations focus on psychological factors rather than providing insight into the institutional contexts in which ideas are actually produced, paid for, brought into contact with an interested audience, enacted in collective rituals, used to mobilize resources against competing ideologies, and embedded in social arrangements.

The most obvious cost is that broader social arrangements may be neglected.

Moving toward more modern social arrangements is presumed to entail a displacement or devaluation of traditional religious institutions, or at least some concessions on the part of such institutions to the secular environment.

This same dual freedom applies to all of the social sciences — both in respect to the conceptual structures of political science, sociology, anthropology, and other behavioral disciplines, and to the deliberate social arrangements and processes studied.

And we can go yet another step and make a law to keep the races away from one another; and not only law, but a whole array of regulations, social arrangements, customs, traditions, to keep them away from one another.

It was not until somewhere between eight to five thousand years ago that this tribal existence gradually gave way in certain regions to broader and more complex social arrangements that eventually led to the great civilizations, nations and cultures of more recent times.

Today we are moving, with great social turbulence and at a high but necessary cost, toward a more equitable set of social arrangements in which women are no longer regarded as the chattel of men; love, fidelity and mutual respect replace property rights and concern to reduce competition between related males for the same woman.

This order had to respond to the perversions of the old and repair the malignant institutional and social arrangements that had helped bring them about.

Thus, devotion to the kenotic God can be altogether disruptive of our «normal» social arrangements, all of which have some degree of exclusivism.

What she finds is not stuffy puritanism that wants to spoil everybody's good fun, but in fact just the opposite: a subtle, exciting, sexy social arrangement in which men are men, women are women, and both get the maximal benefit from it.

We are implicated in these historical crimes, says the liberal, and deserve to be penalized for them, by virtue of the fact (a) that we are the beneficiaries of social arrangements built on the foundations laid by this past exploitation; and (b) that despite our protests, we continue to treat and regard the historically victimized in discriminatory and injurious ways, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unconsciously.

To the extent that the Puritan and early republican notions of «the good» and «virtue» were too narrow, too bound up with repressive social and psychological mechanisms, too easily subverted to the defense of particular social arrangements, the utilitarian critique has been genuinely liberating.

This is when those who benefit from present social arrangements are called, in the face of that benefit, to submit to change as the will and work of God.

In a capitalist nation such as the United States or Canada, those who benefit most from the social arrangements are the wealthy.

The editors added: «A great deal of what might be called the silent public opinion of the south has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement.»

If we sincerely trust that the promise of divine fidelity provides the ultimate context within which to live out our lives, we will not feel obliged to cling too tenaciously to immediate social arrangements in order to find the approval we desire.

According to Luther, social arrangements should be preserved within the Church lest we give scandal to the gospel.

What those who think of marriage as a trap, as an «artificial social arrangement,» overlook is that the real artificiality takes place when persons seek the joys of union without the risks of marriage and of growing love.

How are social arrangements of power rearranged?

Precisely because a congregation has «material» bases and is necessarily located at some point in conflicts within a society which may tend to privilege its access to the material resources it needs, a congregation's practices are always in danger of serving to preserve the social arrangements from which they profit and of obscuring the inequalities inherent in those arrangements.

Nothing is more striking than the secular alteration that goes on in the moral and religious tone of men, as their insight into nature and their social arrangements progressively develop.

They expressed the conviction that «the silent public opinion of the South has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement» (June 2, 1954).

The result of such a social arrangement is a diminished level of satisfaction experienced by its members.7 Conversely, a society dominated by Intellect has novelty, and is therefore living, but lacks order and stability.

All forms of thinking politically may include advocacy or — less purposively — at least a preference that certain social arrangements should happen or be prevented from happening.

In the lab, researchers mimic these social arrangements and keep pairs in separate aviaries.

This was perhaps the most complex social arrangement ever attributed to animals considered (erroneously) so small - brained.

Their study contradicts the idea that pair bonding (think Adam and Eve) represents the most primal social arrangement.

Nor can we predict triple - sex sexual, parental, or larger - scale social arrangements with any confidence.

Either way, the system wins, and the movie didn't even start to question whether or not that social arrangement was a good thing until near its finale.

Regardless of how effective the film was in removing barriers toward the horror via its commitment to realism, Scrapbook would nonetheless be received as an artifice by viewers due to the formal and social arrangements, such as credit sequences and watching the film on a tape which had either been bought or rented.

As she told a Radcliffe audience in 2012, «the social arrangement of apartheid, the lens through which I had been taught to view all social relations, revealed itself as a distorting prism of terror and fear.»

My brother, a political scientist, informs me of a debate in his field: Many political scientists insist that «policy follows culture,» meaning people establish laws and social arrangements based on their cultural values.

Those with strong social arrangements (often, loyal children) will survive well, as will those that have saved / invested well.

At this time though modernism was still «progressive», increasingly it saw traditional forms and traditional social arrangements as hindering progress, and was recasting the artist as a revolutionary, engaged in overthrowing rather than enlightening society.

Works and lives in Helsinki and Berlin Jaakko Pallasvuo's work deals with hierarchies, feelings and social arrangements.

«' The peculiar institution» of slavery and immigration during the 18th century created a city that, even in 1961, was a complex social arrangement, one that remains palpable today,» Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans expressed in a statement about New Orleans.

By only giving the most catastrophist of possible outcomes, though, and by largely glossing over the complex politics and social arrangements that underpin the problem and are at the heart of effective response, we get a skewed sense of what climate change really is.

Sucking carbon from the atmosphere or reflecting sunlight back into space does nothing useful if it's not accompanied by work to transform the social arrangements that put the carbon there in the first place.

There's no more inequitable social arrangement than the world Big Climate wants to impose on us.

You got ta admire the brazenness of these Big Climate enforcers in appropriating «social justice» appeals to «socio - economic vulnerability» and «inequitable social arrangements».

He explains that civilization is a means for allowing individuals to liberate their energies and their genius — an emergence from primitive, tribal, collectivist social arrangements.