Sentences with phrase «understanding present society»

Netherlands About Blog Philosophy on the move It goes through a wide range of philosophical issues: knowledge / truth, ethics / morality, language / meaning, culture, and society.I try to use philosophy as a perspective for understanding present society.

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In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

How to understand men as fundamentally related to God when their relations to nature and society had so changed presented a most difficult practical as well as theoretical problem.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

I don't understand what is going on with society when you are no longer able to present your point of view without someone calling for your firing or resignation or whatever.

Elsewhere Cobb is careful to specify that both God and man are best characterized as living persons consisting respectively of societies of actual occasions (CNT 188, 192).1 In the present context, consequently, it is clear that we are to understand God to be present in man in the same manner in which one actual occasion is present within another and that this presence concerns the aims at the fulfillment of a concrescing occasion in a living person by the occasions or «prehended data» in its past.

It is a great paradox that nature is much more unambiguously susceptible to human understanding than is society past and present.

I want to interpret the tradition in terms of the present and the present in terms of the tradition, thus setting up a communication between past and present in the service of enhanced self - understanding.1 Such an enterprise differs from an effort to explain American society in terms of social and economic variables.

The Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute present a series of lectures on a Catholic understanding of the Arts.

They believe that not only is human difference a healthy fact of life, but that individuals should understand the past and present dynamics of ethnic identity, relationships and groups, not only because it will make them more sure of themselves, but also because it will strengthen the democratic nature of tire total society.

For readers living in or near New York City: The Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute present a series of lectures on a Catholic understanding of the Arts.

It seems much simpler to me to say that the structural possibilities for the self - constitution of currently concrescing actual entities are present in the society or field of activity to which the entities belong, but that only God in virtue of the divine primordial nature has an infallible understanding which possibilities will be genuinely fruitful and to what extent they will be fruitful and which possibilities will ultimately be fruitless, at least in terms of the achievement of higher goals and values.

I would be more tolerent, but my understanding of history and society demonstrates that people who live their lives by stone age fairytales are screwing up the present as well.

It is our hope that the present comparative treatment will deepen the understanding of American civil religion at the same time it opens up issues that can be explored in many other societies.

At the same time, I understand this political theology to be a positive attempt to formulate the eschatological message under the conditions of our present society.»

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

Presenting the imagined baby care guides within the context of the greater society allows readers to better understand practices that in the context of their own modern societies, may seem strange indeed.

Those results square with another recent study, presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in October 2012, showing that after a dose of oxytocin, men with autism were better able to understand difficult - to - read emotions conveyed in photographs showing only people's eyes.

A novel molecular imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

«The goal of our research is to understand the neurodynamics of real - world social interactions, and we used the classroom as a real - world social neuroscience lab,» says Suzanne Dikker of NYU and Utrecht University, who is presenting this new research at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual conference today.

Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry, commented, «Alzheimer's disease presents such a terrible burden on individuals, families, and society that if BACE1 inhibitors produce beneficial effects on the course of this disorder, it is well worth the effort to try to understand and circumvent this new risk.»

Among other things, the new map will help astronomers to understand and explain the motion of the Milky Way, which is apparently being tugged by the gravity of neighboring groups and clusters of galaxies, says 2MASS team member Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, who presented the it here at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

And as will be presented today at the 25th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), cognitive neuroscientists increasingly are using those emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.

But together the two projects «point to the power of large studies to understand what factors determine survival and reproduction in humans in present - day societies,» Pääbo says.

It brings together the author's work on the southern coast of Peru and, by mixing the results of excavation with ethnographic analogy, presents a model of Nasca culture that adds significantly to our understanding of the complex societies in the Andes.

«The universality of our law is really surprising, and understanding this can lead to safer building designs and shed some light into the anticipatory nature of human interactions,» said Karamouzas, who will present his work during a talk at the American Physical Society's March Meeting on Friday, March 6.

His research, presented April 11 at a meeting of the American Physical Society, could help scientists understand the formation of planets within and outside the solar system.

Founded in Rouen, France, Interactive Biosoftware is present on the 5 continents, in more than 35 countries to play an active role in the process of understanding and finding solutions to society's most devastating diseases.

So when I present to teachers, I try to help them understand that even if they're the best teachers in the state, they still need to get better, because when they get better, their students are healthier, live longer, and contribute more to society.

Kelley's transgressive project extends understanding for sexual taboos and illicit pleasures still considered incompatible with the aims and interests of present society.

The exhibition, organized by guest curator Fumio Nanjo, director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, and Asia Society's in - house curator Dominique Chan, presents works that explore the artist's burgeoning understanding of life's transience.

Chun's multinational career has shaped his understanding of communication and societies, and his intention is to «express the conflicts and struggles... between people, or between the past, present and future, though delicately hidden behind a dangerous harmony.»

«If we understand the exhibition as a form of communication, it does not simply comment on actualities in our society such as widespread discrimination, bias or deliberate misinformation, but rather it presents a complex view of the real, with no one dominant view, a reality formed by a vibrant and brilliant multitude of perspectives» said Delahunty.

In understanding and observing «the spectacle» present day society has found itself in, she engages in a dialogue regarding persona and curated social media facades.

The American Meteorological Society's policy program seeks to present climate science and climate policy accurately and clearly for anyone who wishes to better understand the topic.

Every effort is made to present all the issues, similar to what an enquiring mind would need to understand before rendering an opinion as to whether there are pros and cons to a warming (or cooling) scenario for a particular sector in a particular region, or even for the global society.

They do not understand, that when you demand that from society, the quality of science must be way higher than is is at present.