Sentences with phrase «social conscience which»

Not exact matches

The 1948 declaration which established the modern state of Israel pledges that the country will «ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex,» and that it «it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture.»

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

Yet it is unlikely that the ordinary conscience will find itself entirely at ease with a change that overthrows social norms on which people have depended throughout recorded history.

Thus they are carried away by a whole complex of emotions and ideas; authentic spirituality, aspiration for a true church, suffering with the poorest of the poor; but also, sociological conformism, assent to commonplace notions, a bad social conscience (which relieves the individual of his responsibility), extremist and excessive simplification (for it must never be forgotten that recourse to violence is always and above all an act of inhuman simplification).

Despite all influences to the contrary, it lifted a standard of judgment in the light of which the Christian conscience at its best could not be content with social evil.

Even those things which lie, as readily admitted in many a papal social encyclical, beyond the Magisterium's strict sphere of competence are still of importance in the shaping of that much - vaunted individual conscience.

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.

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

Perfectionists are right in their conviction that our civilization stands under the judgment of God; no one can have an easy conscience about the social and political anarchy out of which the horrible tyranny that now threatens us arose.

Although Barth himself was one of Hitlerism's «most determined foes,» Barthian theology abetted Hitler's type of reactionary politics: «Here,» said Niebuhr, «religious absolutism which begins by making the conscience sensitive to all human weakness ends in complacency toward social injustice» (June 6, 1934).

But the significance of such a law is not only that it puts the coercive power of the state against the unjust discriminator, but that it puts the moral power of the state against it also, T. V. Smith's statement that laws «represent the maximum of private conscience which can at any time become social fact.»

A UK - based group trying to raise awareness about the plight of homelessness has released the iHobo app, which is basically a Tamagotchi with a social conscience according to reports.

Further compounding these consequences in India and elsewhere, has been the fact that conversion and baptism, though fundamentally consequences of the exercise of personal conscience have assumed marked social and political overtones and repercussions which have enhanced «communalistic «tendencies both within and outside the Church.

Growth - action groups can help us simultaneously develop sensitive ecological consciences and carry out social action to save the environment on which all life depends.

It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation [of religion] to the political process will place at a relative disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoidable consequence of democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself or in which judges weigh the social importance of all laws against the centrality of all religious beliefs.

When social scientists, in their efforts to remain simply «objective,» forget that people have a conscience to which they plead, they are in my opinion unrealistic and are not doing their duty as scientists.

On the other hand, there is also an element in conscience which goes beyond social conditioning.

Bak USA, the Buffalo tablet computer maker with a social conscience, which last week secured another $ 10 million investment from B. Thomas Golisano, the billionaire founder of Paychex and the former owner of the Buffalo Sabres, is starting to look like a real business.

The leaders of all the main parties offered all their MPs, including ministers and shadow ministers, a free votes on the grounds that marriage is a «conscience» social issue in which the party whips have no official say.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

In «The Belko Experiment,» the why turns out to be social science, much like the 1961 Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which explored individual willingness to go against personal moral conscience in obeying commands.

This was first established by the U.S. Supreme Court 50 years ago in Tinker v. De Moines Independent Community School District and even before then in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (which first recognized the First Amendment rights of students by declaring that they couldn't be forced by districts to recite the Pledge of Allegiance against their religious and social consciences).

His answer: Probably not, because the dilemmas and dramas of climate change are simply incompatible with the kinds of stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, especially in novels, which tend to emphasize the journey of an individual conscience rather than the poisonous miasma of social fate.

There is also evidence showing that EC plays an important role in the development of conscience, which involves the interplay between experiencing moral emotions (i.e., guilt / shame or discomfort following transgressions) and behaving morally, in a way that is compatible with rules and social norms.8 Besides, children who are high in EC appear to be more able to display empathy toward other's emotional states and pro-social behaviour.4 EC is thought to provide the attentional flexibility required to link emotional reactions (both positive and negative) in oneself and others with internalized social norms and action in everyday situations.