Sentences with phrase «societal view of»

«The societal view of dads is that we're bumbling fools,» Steve Dubin tells his all - male audience.
Some stumbling blocks in the breastfeeding relationship that mamas may encounter include the modern societal view of breasts as solely sexual objects which often leads those in public places, including many churches, to shame mothers into hiding in restrooms or vehicles or at the very least using covers that make breastfeeding far more difficult and clumsy than it needs to be.
Everyone knows divorce sucks, but, according to 2 people with a decent claim on «most brilliant power couple on the planet,» that very unanimity creates a societal view of divorce that just makes it worse.
In the collection of articles based on lectures in honor of Hartshorne's ninetieth birthday, Nobo unfolds, in reaction to Lewis Ford, how in his opinion Gad is essentially immutable, imperishable and objectifiable.30 In doing this he agrees with Ford's criticism that Hartshorne's societal view of God does not offer an adequate Whiteheadian solution to the problem of God's objectifiability or prehensibility, but in contrast to Ford he is of the opinion that such a Whiteheadian solution is possible, and that it is even reasonably simple.
Trying to conceive of God» as one actual entity is likely impossible despite several attempts to clarify Whitehead's statements on the subject, 2 but neither has Hartshorne's societal view of God as a personal nexus been clearly conceived.
And the societal view of God, it seems to me, can account for the religious intuition of God's faithfulness.
Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal view of the world, perhaps more than any specific philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.
Since this view introduces no new divine acts, it furnishes no new argument in favor of adopting the societal view of God.
The most obvious solution might seem to lie in adopting the societal view of God, as Brown in fact recommends.
This implies that an unresolved loss of desired birthing or breastfeeding experience may reinforce societal views of female self - disdain, and comments equating support for female physiology with hate for women.
Through my own experience in the LGBT community, I have concluded that although the societal views of alternative lifestyles are becoming more open and accepting, we still find ourselves in the position of trying to find happiness in our lives while confronting misconceptions, judgements and misunderstandings about what alternative lifestyles and what LGBT love is all about.
Again, this may suggest that Madden and Lenhart's (2006) conclusions about societal views of online dating more accurately represent people's real attitudes toward finding romance on the Internet than do the conclusions of scholars such as Anderson (2005) and Wildermuth (2001, 2004) such that — for persons of any age — online daters are no longer viewed in the pejorative terms they once were.
Although other factors may have minor influences... the consequential predictors are opportunity, attitudes that fit societal views of sexuality... and other adult - like behaviors.»

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I hope to convince J.D. that while I grew up with very liberal, Jewish parents (dad from South America) in California, and in a nuclear family without alcohol or violence, I experienced surprisingly similar parallels to many of J.D.'s societal views — even if we may have drawn moderately different conclusions about the underlying solutions.
From a societal point of view, this scares me.
Dr. Felt calls attention to a peculiar aspect of one the arguments used to support the «societal» view.
More importantly, for the societal view as well as for the entitative, the primordial nature is an adjustment of pure conceptual possibilities, so that although in the former view there is a temporality to its successive reconstitution, there is no temporality in its valuation.
There is a deep cleavage between those who agree with Whitehead in describing God as a single actual entity, nontemporal in his primordial nature and everlasting in his consequent nature (the «entitative» view), and those who prefer with Charles Hartshorne to regard God as a personally ordered temporal society of successive occasions (the «societal» view).
Brown writes: «On either view [the entitative or the societal],... God's freedom lies in his primordial evaluation of possibility» (PS 2:145).
«Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views
For a Whiteheadian and indeed for any process - thinker, any claim for the uniqueness of Jesus and any notion of his «finality» would require careful re-statement if they are to be accepted; they would need to be brought into congruity with the general line of thought appropriate to such a view of the world as the evolutionary and societal interpretation would provide.
While certain societal roles conventionally limited to one or the other gender can and should be challenged, gender itself, as the root of the word indicates, is determined by our genitals...» West's subsequent view is that «A de-gendered society is bound to de-generate.»
This paper will examine the arguments on each side, indicate what the societal view implies about the nature of...
Proponents of same - sex marriage hold that societal change is necessary to treat others as we would like to be treated, regardless of our views of morality and sin.
18 Segundo emphasized that any «conception of God, which [206] views him solely as some immutable, self - sufficient nature without any real interest in what he himself brought about, is nothing but the rationalization of our own alienated societal relationships.»
5) Well - ordered sexual intentions have in view goods both of body and of soul, goods that are at once personal and societal.
This paper will examine the arguments on each side, indicate what the societal view implies about the nature of God, and suggest an additional argument for the societal view based on the idea of God's freedom and faithfulness which this view implies.
This meaning is preserved in the societal view since the structure of the primordial nature, its pattern of ordering, is in each successive divine occasion identical to the abstract pole of preceding occasions.
Whitehead's statements about the singularity of the primordial nature, the advocate of the societal view may observe in response, can mean two different things.
Now one may observe, by way of rejoinder, that the loss of «first - handedness» is not avoided on the societal view.
If the societal view is at least as defensible, metaphysically, as its alternative, then the superior adequacy of the societal view for our religious experience should be counted as additional evidence in its favor.
The societal view effects an even more radical change in the process conception of God's freedom.
Instead of being viewed as threats to societal well - being or as radical departures from past history, such developments are defended as long overdue cultural affirmations which can only benefit America.
With minor variations, they hold views similar to those of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, namely that the Hindu tradition is a samaj dharma or societal tradition which is open to a variety of sadhana dharma (s) or spiritual traditions.
Little by little, the atheistic view of the world mu become a more and more «normal» part of societal understanding.
And thereby that the conception of God as one actual entity offers the possibility (and more so than the societal view) to conceive of God as efficacious with regard to worldly entities, even with respect to the consequent nature.
Further, the second consequence of the societal view is this: according to that view, God is time and time again briefly indeterminate.
One of these was A.H. Johnson who was the first to mention the possibility of a «societal view,» and thereby elicited an explicitly negative reaction from Whitehead.8 Others who entertain this view are, mainly, William Christian, Lewis Ford, Marjorie Suchocki, and Jorge Nobo.9 Amongst these, Ford is the only one who links his holding of the «entitative view» to an emphasis on the imprehensibility of God's consequent nature10 (and who later finds this so much of a problem that he starts searching in other directions, though not in that of the «societal view»).11 The other three — Christian, Suchocki, and Nobo — do see possibilities for a conceptually coherent account of the prehensibility of God.
If one wishes to retain the «societal view,» one must also retain the non-reversed polarity of God, and therefore also the existence of phases of indeterminateness in God.
But I think it's important to pass along the rational view and what it's based on... exactly because I believe striving for more rational thought is a requirement for the (societal, non-genetic) evolution and progress of the human race.
The prime difficulty is that a reversal of poles requires an everlasting concrescence which is incompatible with the succession of concrescences required by the societal view.
Many religions, unfortunately, skew the education of their members to the extent that they are incapable of viewing their religion in its social context, and therefore do not, and can not, understand the societal benefit of the freedomd to grow and change and learn as a society.
It is also interesting to note that, in the not - too - distant past, husbands hitting their wives was also viewed as not only a societal norm, but a necessary part of maintaining a harmonious, successful marriage.
It is also interesting to note that, in the not - too - distant past, husbands hitting their wives was also viewed as not only a societal norm, but also a necessary part of maintaining a harmonious, successful marriage.
Unfortunately, as I have said before in the past, the rest of the world often holds a strictly binary view of Africa: we are either failing or we are succeeding, rising to great heights or falling to the lowest depths of destitution, disease and societal dysfunction.
In most recent shared views and writings on human and societal development, the investment made on other people gives tremendous yields; thus the facts and authenticity of the book are invaluable.»
While this approach works well in most cases, it is necessary to view regulatory oversight of opioid medications differently from that of other drugs, because these medications can have a number of consequences not only at the individual level but also at the household and societal levels.
«Tailoring materials that will absorb a specific color of light is very difficult from the scientific point of view, but from the societal point of view we are contributing to the development of a technology that can help reduce greenhouse gases.»
These are ecological functions that we are beginning to discover, and a revised view of chloride is also interesting from a societal perspective.
«More importantly though, from a societal point of view, our methods and findings might help us understand how to approach phenomena such as racism, religious hatred, and gender inequality discrimination, since the methods offer the opportunity for people to experience the world from the perspective of someone different from themselves.»
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