Sentences with phrase «society functions better»

Church and state are separate because society functions better that way.
Society functions better that way.

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He thinks that people need to feel inspired by something bigger than themselves in order for communities and entire societies to function better.
After all, a good dose of «law - bending» is essential to the functioning of a healthy society.
There's well over a century of research on how religions originate, function in society and the individual psychology involved.
Our society functions quite well like this.
If indeed «Sharia» is meant to function as it takes into consideration what would be best for society on a whole through a lens of compassion and mercy», it should also ensure that animals will be dispatched «kindly» — as humanely as possible.
Few members of well - functioning traditional societies are willing to exchange their lives for this kind of labor.
Asian American Christians are usually bi-cultural — we have to be in order to function in both our families, as well as in broader American society.
I do all those things Nye believes creationists are incapable of and I do them very well, thank you - and since I can function perfectly well in society with my beliefs intact, why do they really matter to Nye so much?
The content of this hope is: i) Marx ascribes soteriological function to the proletariat, ii) the apocalyptic conflict between Good and Evil in society and iii) the final victory belongs to Christ.
the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.
It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.
If we think we need to accommodate every special interest and every possible belief, then we lose the sense of community we have from the shared culture and without culture, society can not function well together.
They have in their undertone the mechanistic world - view that suggests that a good society must function like a machine whose operation is controlled by the laws of nature» (pp. 44 - 5).
Can we assess the relative significance of a life by inquiring into its relative importance to a well - functioning society or political community?
That is, the function that the churches may be best able to fulfill, even in modern society, is that of promoting communication with God.
It is not my intention to defend everything the encyclical tradition has had to say about sex and marriage but rather to point out that that tradition, especially in Arcanum Divinae, at least had the argument in the right ball park — namely, that what one says about sex is correlative to one's understanding of the nature of the family and what its function is for the preservation of good societies.
As the apostolic Church it is the function of the Christian community to proclaim to the great human societies, with all the persuasiveness and imagination at its disposal, with all the skill it has in becoming all things to all men, that the center and heart of all things, the first and last Being, is utter good.
The Church discharges its responsibility to God for society in carrying out its pastoral as well as its apostolic functions.
However, the economy would be market socialism, that is, a civilization in which the society as a whole insisted that its comprehensive well being be the goal of all of its functions.
The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.
The Southerner believed that he lived in a well - ordered society that was comparable to a body in which each living part played a certain role or performed a particular function.
It might be a valuable means to combat the alienation in modern society that emerges from the gulf between intellectual and emotional experience.13 Certainly, one of the best safeguards for the use of LSD is a systematic intellectual account of its functioning.
The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.
In conclusion, Labor has long recognised that an effective competition policy is at the heart of a well functioning economy, but it's also at the heart of a fair society that protects the interests of consumers over rent - seeking monopolists.
Providing environments that support healthy emotional as well as academic growth makes it more likely that we will see kids who are not diverted from their job of becoming engaged, reasonably happy, functioning members of society.
Society in turn has watched as the «available parents» have volunteered to fill that roll in schools, and rewarded those parents with the «Good Parent Awards» instead of asking the question «what's wrong with our classrooms that they can no longer function fully without additional adult help?»
The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.
Politics in Spires: Graham Smith and David Owen argue in a response to your book, published in The Good Society, that the Tribunate function might also be carried out by trade unions and labour parties.
The free market is presented as the best way of organizing economic life — but it can only function well against a background of equal personal and property rights that protect all members of society, from the very rich to the very poor.
Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to a new and surprisingly portable molecular imaging system that combines optical imaging at the surface level and scintigraphy, which captures the physiological function of what lies beneath, announced developers at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
Premature babies treated with caffeine have better lung function in mid-childhood than preemies not treated with caffeine, according to a randomized controlled trial published in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The supplement examines the issues surrounding distracted driving by teens, exploring developmental states and changes that are associated with adolescents» distractibility and their relation to driving, examining patterns of distraction among newly licensed adolescents as well as brain function, considering the potential role played by parental modeling of distracted behavior while driving, accounting for the role of technology and the influence of peer passengers and society norms, and investigating policy, legislation, and intervention.
«More gray matter is associated with better cognitive function, while decreases in gray matter are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias,» said Shannon Halloway, PhD, the lead author of the Journal of Gerontology paper and the Kellogg / Golden Lamp Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rush University College of Nursing.
Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.
San Diego, Calif. (Embargoed until 6 PM on Tuesday, June 14)-- Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to a new and surprisingly portable molecular imaging system that combines optical imaging at the surface level and scintigraphy, which captures the physiological function of what lies beneath, announced developers at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
The way we think, talk, act, remember, believe and function within a social society are all heavily influenced by the secretion of hormones from glands in the brain and body, which have been designed and refined over the course of human evolution to kick in when we need them, and deliver the beneficial effects that we all know so well.
Life is Feudal: MMO is a realistic social experience, where the best way to thrive in the world is to work together and build a fully functioning society, where everyone has a place, from the most basic hunters and gatherers, to farmers, soldiers and civic leaders.
Anna discovers the hypocrisy of Russian society which excludes her yet she does not function very well outside of it.
Whether it's in college, on the job or at home, everyone needs to know how to function well in today's information - rich society.
The function of the plaque is a mystery, offering opportunities to learn about the interpretation of archaeology; as well as discussing the roles of women in Viking society and examining the materials the Vikings used.
WASHINGTON — Nearly half of all adult Americans can not read, write, and calculate well enough to function fully in today's society, and people in their early 20's have poorer literacy skills than did those in a 1985 survey, according to a federal study.
To others, the intervention of the government is a positive good, protecting children from potentially dangerous values of the their parents and assuring allegiance to a common set of ideals necessary for our society to function.
These include an endlessly forgiving higher education system; the presence within the U.S. of most of the world's top universities; huge efforts at research and development; a hard - working populace and an adaptable immigration policy; a society that encourages second chances and invites new ideas; and the world's largest and best - functioning free - market economy.
book: «Learning is best formula for promoting economic growth and reducing the crippling effects of poverty... Schools can serve as the foundation for highly functioning democratic and sustainable communities and societies
As we included in the Smart Cities book: «Learning is best formula for promoting economic growth and reducing the crippling effects of poverty... Schools can serve as the foundation for highly functioning democratic and sustainable communities and societies
Key Issues To ensure charter schools and neighborhood public schools function in the best interests of students, parents and community members, we believe that, like all public institutions, they must be guided by six basic principles of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, quality, oversight, equity and public control.
Universal and comprehensive health care coverage provides a foundation for a well - functioning economy and society.
By providing a better education for our children we provide these students with the tools to function successfully in society.
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