Sentences with phrase «social ideals»

Moreover, the idea of equality, on reflection, turns out not to be a simple one, so that the meaning of the democratic social ideal needs to be examined and defined.
The duty of the individual to determine his own conduct and profit or suffer by the consequences seems, on the contrary, to be one of our best rooted contemporary Protestant social ideals.
Yet it is notable that through this experience, dominated as it seems to have been by a self - interest as crass as that which he ascribed to his God, he paid unconscious tribute to common social ideals of justice and humanity.
Therefore, to help ease the burden on the teachers, schools have developed professional administrations to share the responsibility of running the schools and instilling related social ideals.
The West is quite willing to impose its political, economic, and social ideals on other cultures as if it is a moral ideal and many sing «Onward Christian Soldiers» while doing it.
Instead of seeing moral obligations simply as individual and social ideals externally related to the factual order of life and physical reality, I began to see them as demands on human life no less intrinsically real than gravitation.
The only people who have anything to fear from more of humanity being spiritual, as opposed to religious, are those who would use (or condone the use of) «revealed scripture» to thrust their own «tribal» social ideals upon others.
Although openly confessing Christians could play supporting or even mildly dissenting roles in society (Reinhold Niebuhr comes to mind), the essential social ideals that higher education would promote would be defined in secular terms and largely by secularists.
Therefore Jesus» attitude toward property can not be explained from social ideals or from any socialistic and proletarian instincts and motives.
What they imply is that we must resist our desire for a complete, rounded - off social ideal.
But does not the strange and persistent cleavage, so invariably manifest within so - called democratic movements in the opposed concepts of liberalism and dirigisme (or individualism and totalitarianism) explain itself when we realize that, although they may look like contradictory social ideals, they are in fact natural components (personalization and totalization) whose interaction biologically determines the essence and progress of anthropogenesis?
In Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Ryan Gosling's Driver is a modern - day cowboy: cool, alone, and in control of his stead — he acts out of a sense of chivalrous instinct rather than any preexisting social ideals.
This context is fine in larger cities as it fits with the general social ideals and norms, this is however not the case for remote and regional centres, especially with regards to NESB indigenous Australia, where our education system basically serves as a tool (ethically / morally dysfunctional tool) for their assimilation into national Australian community where they find meaning through participation at all levels.
Catherine Yass's latest exhibition amalgamates social ideals with the awe - inspiring precision of high - wire artist, Didier Pasquette.
Palpable references to universal yet explicit notions are made; a suspended moment in time holds subliminal connotations that provoke larger queries into social ideals and our personal crises within these constraints.
The current Democrat Party is little more than a shadow of it's former self as the last two Democrat Presidents have done their best to promote the destruction of progressive social ideals and legislation while promoting devastating international trade agreements that put the U.S. and it's citizens at the mercy of foreign business and banking interests.
For all his admiration for custom and continuity, Kirk articulated a social ideal that had little basis in American history.
The salient point, though, is clear: In a democratic world for which» has become «career,» the idea of fitting work becomes far less a social ideal and far more an individual aim.
If the «conservatives» do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.
Their social ideals tend to reflect the views of their race, region, economic class, age, and educational background.
Jesus does not ascethically renounce this world and its institutions, nor measure it critically by the standard of a social ideal, neither does he give positive worth to the duties which grow out of life in this world.
When I speak of «other sorts of theology,» I do not have in mind only a Deweyan or a Randallian sort of theology in which «God» is considered a human symbol of the unity of social ideals.
All I could say was that our first responsibility as parents was to our children's welfare, and we would not put them at risk for the sake of living up to a political or social ideal that we believed, rightly or wrongly, conflicts with what's best for our kids.
Because it does not repress the memory or awareness of the most desperate it seems to be more aware of the realities of social existence than other social ideals that have been proposed.
The prophets forbade such narrowing of social ideals.
Among the goals overridden, as illustrated above, are those of the social ideal of the family farm, the desire of Third World peoples to participate in the control of their own destiny, and the right of people to set standards for their own health and environment.
It's in our hands to create safe, welcoming spaces and to use our restaurants as a platform for our social ideals.
Home / natural birth seems to be the social ideal here.
In Steiner's life, after many initiatives were launched in 1917 around his social ideals, he found that people did not have the capacities to be successful in some degree because they were not prepared to understand the spiritual ideals needed to be creative in new ways.
We're going to be seeing films of all kinds and genres within this shared universe, and more so than any of the other MCU films, Black Panther feels like an invitation for everyone to take part — to tell stories from unique perspectives and world views, and to bring cultural, ideological, and social ideals to these comic book heroes.
For Joe and Anthony Russo and for screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, no social ideal is morally and intellectually pure, which automatically makes this film more adult than most contemporary political commentary.
Noderer lives in Austin, Texas, but I suspect he spends a lot of time up in some remote hill country where the human footprint, and social ideals, are continually challenged by a backwoods mentality and the forces of nature.»
Both John Cage's wit and his social ideals shaped the atmosphere at Black Mountain College, an experimental school in Asheville, N.C., that became a legend in its own time.
And his commitment not just to doing something different but saying something different was not just a personal ideal but a social ideal — and a philosophical ideal, and even scientific ideal.
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