Sentences with phrase «social duty»

Opposition to such thinking comes from traditional conservatives» who favor social duties over social claims» and from traditional socialists» who see links between the culture of rights and that of consumerism (with their shared, strident insistence on entitlement, recognition, and self - fulfillment).

Thus, Lepard writes (citing a passage from the Bhagavad Gita) that Hinduism may view the caste system as legitimate, but it also teaches «that such relationships and related social duties are ethically subordinate to a concern for all people.»

I suspect that religion deeply shapes social morality, and that Christianity implies both a social duty to care for the poor and the oppressed and an intellectual duty to understand the great philosophies of the elites that have shaped cultures for centuries.

We wouldn't need to be missioned - to, he argued, if the church would just be reasonable, do its social duty and either allow priests to marry, ordain women, or both.

Yet, she says, «it is a social duty of the university to teach about all the phases of life.»

He said that producing audiobooks is a part of a social duty to preserve trees and nature.

[30] Someone who makes a statement to the police about a suspected crime is protected by qualified privilege; he or she is discharging the social duty to help in the detection of criminal activity.

The person communicating the statement usually has a legal, moral or social duty to make it and the recipient will have a corresponding interest in receiving it.