Sentences with phrase «toward social convention»

The psychological strategy fully shares its optimistic assumptions about the inherent benevolence abiding in all people, the moral significance of the individual's expressive needs, the absolute moral priority of the unhindered and unencumbered individual over the exigencies of the group, as well as its antipathy toward social convention and traditional institutions.

Not exact matches

The goal toward which Alwyn's life moved is embedded in the same social conventions which constrain and direct the lives of many other black Australians — a life of continued violence, hopelessness, and early death.