Sentences with phrase «society as a whole understands»

The following comments really illustrate how much society as a whole understands women, biology, and nurturing.

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Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

Ultimately, the Church's limitation of the state depends on our ability to recover a genuine understanding of the Church's true nature and to regard ourselves not simply as a so - called intermediate association within the state and civil society but as the true whole, the heavenly city, that precedes and transcends them.

I shall return to how he suggests we understand value arising from what is being called, in his peculiar way a «society,» but the point from Adventures of Ideas is clear enough: however we learn to appreciate the status of a complex whole comprised of constituents, it must be construed in a manner which permits that complex whole to serve in turn as constituent within a larger and more complex level of organic whole.

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

Socialism, as they understand it, meant that society as a whole would order its economic life for the good of all.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

At stake in the Boe case is an emerging relationship of great importance to society as a whole, but the «seal of the confessional» may not be the best image under which to understand it.

But on the whole the film promotes an ideological reaction against all establishments rather than an understanding of oneself as personally, and inevitably, involved in society and its establishments and therefore also in the crucifixion.

The shift from understanding Christian life as directly expressed in the service of the neighbor to understanding that the salvation sought is that of the whole society is an easy one, and those who made it can claim to be faithful to Wesley even if he did not take that step.

This entails an understanding of exactly why the Magisterium is so central to the Church, why it is right to talk of «formal cooperation» with evil as always doing «irreparable harm -LSB-...] to the whole of society» and why the Catholic vision of sex, love and, so crucially, our woundedness (see Fr Cummings» article in this issue), is the right alternative to the prevailing hedonistic humanism.

She demonstrates how a clearer understanding of babywearing, and the attachment parenting philosophy as a whole, can ultimately lead to a happier, healthier society.

Society as a whole needs to understand and come to grips with the fact that it's OK for men to love their kids and be sensitive.

More specifically, for easy and quick interaction with «strangers», society as a whole needs to have the understanding, that they are safe from arbitrary violence (put simpler: people must believe that they won't get killed by a random stranger when walking down the street).

Society as a whole and parents in particular need to be able to understand how our children's education is progressing.

Many in education and in our society as a whole do not believe that gifted children can struggle in school and that is because there is a lack of understanding of the facts about giftedness and the traits and needs of our gifted children.

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I think for the global community to understand the climate change problems in a proper context, I think the new chair should play a very important role in identifying the climate issues, not necessarily only identifying the problems, but also the solutions and what opportunities the solutions may provide for the global society as a whole is very important.

Here, I was reminded of how much lawyers can influence society as a whole while widening my understanding of the U.S. legal system.

I am also skeptical of the argument, advanced by Joseph Avray on behalf of the advocates» society, that the hearing fees are wrong because it is somehow impermissible for the government to charge for what is «a public good» — understood not in its strict economic meaning, but simply as something that benefits society as a whole.