The absence of this metaphor corresponds with the broader movement of ecumenical
social thought which, after a mid-century period of neo-orthodoxy, has headed, Paul Bock writes, «back in the direction of humanism» and taken a more hopeful view of the secular prospect.
If it is true that symbols give rise to thought, then
social thinking which has come loose from its cultural origins will eventually become thin and distorted, often with disastrous practical results.
Not exact matches
Follow positive
thought leaders on
social media and be more selective about
which of your offline friends and acquaintances shows up on your own newsfeeds or timelines.
«What's special about Peninsula's approach is that it has created a level of brand engagement,
which is rare,» says Lon Safko, CEO of Innovative
Thinking, a
social media consulting company.
Then we submitted the leaders of those companies to our distinguished advisory board of business experts, the members of
which gave each CEO a score out of five on four key criteria: vision, innovation, strategic
thinking and
social responsibility.
Zuckerberg also had some
thoughts about the form that most news takes, saying he
thinks traditional news entities are having difficulty transitioning to a world in
which everything happens faster and news breaks in a thousand different ways through
social networks and other platforms.
I
think we're on the cusp of a generation of government, political and
social leadership that come from the «outside» as barriers of entry to these fields are lowered and we see more competitive elections,
which will hopefully be more content - driven.
While
social influence behaviors like ingratiation are typically
thought of as a dyadic phenomenon (that is, involving two people — the ingratiator and the ingratiated), these behaviors are actually embedded in a much more complex and dynamic work environment,
which includes many other people.
Notably, these clauses have become even more desirable for employers since the advent of
social media and platforms such as Twitter and Facebook,
which which have given employees the power to publish their
thoughts on a range of issues — not to mention sharing often intimate details of their personal lives in photos or videos.
Viewers know more about Vaynerchuk's companies and endeavors because he is putting in that extra effort to make his brand more human — and I don't
think I would be going out on a limb to say that this human element has definitely contributed to his success and massive
social following,
which includes more than 1.17 million followers on Twitter.
Through the Internet and
social networks, it has fundamentally re-shaped the way in
which people
think about and experience the notions of public and private.
«I would
think that artificial intelligence would have that hugely beneficial
social effect, but a very unpredictable political effect if it came in fast,
which I
think it could.
Prince Harry, who is fifth in line for the throne (for now), made the reserved comments about his wedding to the BBC after he conducted an interview with Obama last week, during
which the pair exchanged common views on
social media use, and discussed Obama's
thoughts on the day his term ended.
Gives explanations & examples that cover
thinks like
social currency,
which emotions prompt or PREVENT something from going viral, triggers, practical value.
CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA,
SOCIAL CAPITAL FOUNDER & CEO: When you
think about how sticky something is, the most important thing to look at is this concept called churn
which is how fast are people leaving the service, and specifically, you can look at companies leaving the service or the amount of dollars that you «re losing.
I asked content marketing and
social media strategist Brian Honigman whether he
thought that video marketing was essential for marketing success, to
which he replied:
In our 9th annual
social media study (49 pages, 77 charts) of 5700 + marketers, you'll discover
which social networks marketers most plan on using more (hint: it's not what you
think), how much time they spend on
social media and much more!
His point was,
which I
think probably more people will do, is buy it synthetically by essentially deferring
Social Security, and that's the most efficient annuity you can buy.
I worked for his grandfather, Ernest and he was earnest and when they passed
social security
which he disapproved of because he
thought it reduced self - reliance and he paid me $ 2 for ten hours work.
Investors also now say they are eager to invest in closed networks that they
think Facebook will not wade into — like
social apps for distinct groups, such as health - care professionals — or ideas like blockchain,
which would enable consumers to transfer their information without letting a large company become a hub of data.
It is true that hetero - ists sometimes do sin in the actions of sodomy
which is a vile and wicked malignancy of all
social constructs that endorse the sodomizers» wants and wills all for but a few moments of pleasure and then comes one's
thoughts of doing the abomidable Act of sodomy!
It is as if Benedict is bringing back into play the long - neglected lessons of St. Augustine to Catholic
Social Thought — re-presenting, as it were, The City of God — that is, the City of that caritas
which the Divine Persons gratuitously pour into the human heart, that it might cast the burning desire for human unity into the kindling of hundreds of millions of parched hearts.
I can't help but
think that homeschooling's unctuous critics have betrayed the American vision of freedom with
which I grew up, and rationalized the extension of
social control in a way my peers and I learned to see and resist.
I don't know, but I'll risk a guess that the editors
thought it worth a momentary suspension of their liberal propensities to have someone take on with gusto,
which Laurent certainly does, those terrible Catholic neoconservatives who construe Catholic
social doctrine in a way supportive of a market economy and liberal polity.
And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional,
which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep
thinking,
social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.
Also a part of this was the emergence of the
social sciences
which, in the application of the psychology of knowledge and the sociology of knowledge to classical modes of
thought, had a significant relativizing impact.
«I
think internalizing the fact that no opinion / belief / enthusiasm inoculates either you or anyone else from the baser aspects of the human condition, or the larger
social milieu in
which we all exist, is probably a very smart thing to do.
That authenticity stretches through every part of Anderson — from his
thoughts about politics and
social justice, to his beliefs about faith
which are, like Dre's, complex.
We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in
which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and
social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological
thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.
He will broke no compromise with institutionalization,
which is ultimately what he
thought the
social traditions of human cultures promoted, even as he resisted a liberalization that secularized the gospel.
Social Christianity (
which on the whole is simple socialism), the Bekenntnis Kirche (
which, once Hitlerism was defeated, merely aligned itself with anti-Hitlerism, thus with what might be called socio - communism), the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr (
which, while solidly
thought out, affected neither church nor society)-- all have failed.
Even if we deny that Jesus worked for transformation in the explicit sense of deriving the dialectic of individual and society from
social structures, or beginning the process of transformation with changes in property and
social relationships, it can not be overlooked that in an indirect sense, the manner in
which Jesus
thought and acted de facto broke open and transformed the
social structures of the world in
which he lived.7
(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in
which popular
thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and
social righteousness.
I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (
which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)-
which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to
think ethically because they
think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (
social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).
From Marxism process theology can learn the importance of critical analysis of the interests that arise within the situation and of the way that the
social situation controls
thinking which does not become self - critical.
April 1999),
which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «
social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this
thought: «I don't
think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.
The kingdom of God, whether
thought of as that
which gradually comes on earth through a transformed society or as that
which comes only in God's eternal kingdom beyond death and earthly history, is always a
social concept.
In this theory,
social pluralism,
which is commonly
thought to be hostile to religion, is in fact the best friend of religious flourishing.
As for the «narrow public witness» against
which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't
think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's
social witness and public policy advocacy.
In contrast to the classical Western neglect of the beautiful ones, there is the Hartshornean theory of «contributionism»
which, like traditional African
thought, maintains that, given a
social conception of human existence, «the rational aim of the individual must in principle transcend any mere good of that individual» (EA 188).
I
think social media provides that for us,
which I
think is dope.
A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism,
which aims to provide a better understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the
social setting, historical circumstances, and climate of
thought in those times.
Traditional Catholic
thinking about international relations was based on an older understanding of and appreciation for individual political communities as the loci within
which a
social order embodying justice in all its aspects might be established and maintained, thereby securing peace as the tranquillity of that just order.
Stapledon lends most credence to the Marxists in
social philosophy, if they recognize the spirituality
which Stapledon sees as an essential aspect of their
thought.
In this sense, one of the greatest present dangers to responsible moral discourse in
social ethics is, I
think, «moralism» and unrestrained idealism,
which frequently operate to overcome these harsh realities I have described by attacking them — or worse, by simply ignoring them.
And free discussion is, for Rorty, «simply [my italics] the sort
which goes on when the press, the judiciary, the elections, and the universities are free,
social mobility is frequent and rapid, literacy is universal, higher education is common, and peace and wealth have made possible the leisure necessary to listen to lots of different people and
think about what they have to say» (CIS 84).
Meanwhile, Protestant
thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in
which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human
social institutions.
For instance, we can ask: How did the
social / philosophical / religious environment in
which a person was raised affect the way in
which that individual
thinks about tyranny in general, and the problem of abortion in particular?
Social education seeks to arouse and develop the spontaneity of fellowship
which is «innate in all unravaged souls» and
which is entirely harmonious with the development of personal existence and personal
thought.
For the open - minded among the
social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into
social scientific
thinking,
which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.