Sentences with phrase «social totality»

Hence, the issue of the objective reality of the universe as an all - encompassing social totality or, in Whiteheadian terms, structured society can not be resolved empirically at the present time; accordingly, one should be free to postulate it as a trans - empirical hypothesis as I am doing here.

Even more perfectly than the human soul with its field of activity can be said to overlap the field of activity proper to the brain and through the brain the other interrelated fields of activity within the human body, so God as the soul of the universe shares a common field of activity with the universe as an all - encompassing social totality.9

On this model, of course, the separate category of «science» would be reintegrated into the social totality.

But it is right to criticize the spirit of modernity for its exaggerated individualism which made the individual a law unto itself and deny any moral or spiritual responsibility to the social totality and destroying even the traditional egalitarian community - values to further the power and interests of the individual in isolation.

Not exact matches

But reason, taken in its totality — hence, not merely scientific reason, but reason in face of total reality — can never find the complete solution to human fulfillment in purely political, economic, technological or social means.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

That having been said, however, social scientists who understand both the usefulness and limitations of their craft know that the religious phenomenon, at its heart and in its totality, escapes the nets of social theory and analysis.

Put in systematic structural terms, biopolitics takes into account the totality of (1) natural systems, (2) social systems, and (3) technological systems.

THE THEOLOGY WHICH CAN BEST SERVE THE CHURCH IN ITS MINISTRY TO THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE WILL TAKE THE FORM OF CHRISTIAN BIOPOLITICS — A UTOPIAN APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE QUEST FOR A DESIRABLE FUTURE, WHICH TAKES AS ITS CENTRAL THEME THE FULFILLMENT OF LIFE WITHIN THE TOTALITY OF THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SETTINGS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

Civil societies, for example, are relatively self - sustaining totalities, unified fields of activity for their human members; but they can not be considered even metaphorically as substances without the concomitant danger of totalitarianism, i.e., the radical subordination of individuals to the social whole.

But for our present purpose, it is enough to say that when we are thinking about the last things, our thought must include much more than human existence and human personality in its body - mind totality, even in its social relationships.

And, one may repeat, Old Testament laws in their totality are not consistently upon a single high moral, ethical and social plane.

The totality in Marxism is achieved by society's reconstitution of Christianity; in Teilhard the same alienation of the secular from the sacred is overcome, and the same totality is erected — but by extending the influence of Christianity into all sciences, social movements (including communism) and other agencies of human perfection.

What is safe always depends on the totality of the social, psychological, nutritional, emotional, and physical circumstances (furniture including bedding, mattress quality and stiffness) within which the «bedsharing» occurs.

Our democracy should not only be about holding free, fair and transparent elections; it should be about the totality of efforts to broaden access to healthcare, education, provide potable water, reliable power supply and other social amenities to the citizenry to make human habitation in Ghana a sight to behold.

The series also included reporting from the path of totality, an online interactive showing future solar eclipse paths and social media coverage.

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