Sentences with phrase «traditions of abolition»

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17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

The abolition of such observances strikes at the heart of tradition, the distinctive language of belief.

Indeed, this is the reason why Scripture and Christian tradition uphold it, a fact which suggests that if anything, it is the abolition of capital punishment which threatens to cheapen life.

The Jews, however, class this film with the tradition of the passion play, which spotlights the Jews as the real killers of Christ; and they call for the abolition of all passion plays as such.

Still more incisive than either the abolition of individualistic anthropocentrism or the abolition of the fixation on consciousness - centered and observer - centered theoretical beginnings, and still more offensive to a style of thinking marked by Continental philosophical traditions, is the second alteration of the conception of subjectivity in Whitehead's book.