Sentences with phrase «social sense of obligation»

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So difficult is the achievement of balance in human thought and experience that one sees even the Bible moving from an original sense of social solidarity, lacking adequate recognition of individuality, to a sense of the value of the single human soul, in danger of lacking adequate consciousness of social obligation.

Whether or not the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai amid thunder and lightning and great pictorial drama is to be taken literally, there is little question that the Hebrews entered Canaan with a clearer sense both of their covenant relation to their deity and of their moral and social obligations to each other than they had possessed prior to Moses» leadership.

It's correct that you can have an excess of individualism, whereby people have no social ties whatsoever except perhaps to their immediate family and have no sense of the common good or obligations to the larger community.

Window shoppers, like town criers, feel a sense of social obligation to be on Facebook but rarely post personal information.

As Stephen Knack, now a senior economist at the World Bank, explained in a 1992 essay, «Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout,» even people with a weak personal sense of obligation have a greater likelihood of voting in a place that is populated with duty - bound compatriots.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students often have shared cultural values and social experiences, including a world view that is shaped by their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, a deep sense of obligation to family, and similar upbringings in places of poverty and financial hardship.

The pet provides a sense of obligation and duty, acts as a social catalyst, and gives the elderly owner someone to talk to and confide in.

The other half of the mix - the creative drive and sense of social obligation - came from the strong Protestant work ethic instilled in American artists by the experience of the Depression and the Federal Art Project of the 1930s.

Environmental lawyer and long - time friend, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. has said «Ed has a greater sense of social obligation than anyone I know.

Rather, lenders operated out of a sense of social obligation.

But our laziness and sense of social obligation unfurl as a pile of «Happy Birthday!»

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students often have shared cultural values and social experiences, including a world view that is shaped by their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, a deep sense of obligation to family, and similar upbringings in places of poverty and financial hardship.