Sentences with phrase «values of modernity»

We need to show up the foolishness of Modernity; On the Way to Lifeasks for «a Catholic Modernity» (pages 33, 51, 63...) It does not want this to be simply a Catholic version of Modernity (page 51); it does want us to incorporate many of the central values of Modernity (page 63)-- but these include «commitment to rational discourse», which in fact has always been properly Catholic!

Like Marx, Weber saw the heavy toll that the structures and values of modernity would continue to assess against the possibility of humanness.

Or, we need a new pattern which takes the good community values of the tradition and good values of modernity, like freedom of human persons and equality between them.

Are not the values of modernity preferable to the distortions of an obnoxious piety?

Not exact matches

In the great essay («The Storyteller») from which this quotation is taken, Benjamin explains how the various forces of technological modernity have gradually reduced the power and value of experience — have made personal experience less «communicable.»

«Assimilating what is of undeniable value in secular modernity's embrace of religious pluralism, freedom of conscience, individual autonomy, and the equal dignity of men and women requires genuine discernment....

Many of these shared beliefs and values are by - products of modernity and higher education.

Heidegger seems to me obviously correct in regarding modernity's nihilism as the fruition of seeds sown in pagan soil; and Nietzsche also correct to call attention to Christianity's shocking — and, for the antique order of noble values, irreparably catastrophic — novelty; but neither grasped why he was correct.

But it is right to criticize the spirit of modernity for its exaggerated individualism which made the individual a law unto itself and deny any moral or spiritual responsibility to the social totality and destroying even the traditional egalitarian community - values to further the power and interests of the individual in isolation.

Many people try to solve this basic, problem by simply condemning the typical products of the scientific age and by reasserting the values of the past — that is, by a resolute renunciation of modernity in favor of the «classical» tradition.

Here the theological understanding of human being as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual vision.

Strauss does not publicize the affinities or parallels between the Christian and modern syntheses, because he values a practical alliance with Christian natural law, and because he prefers to hold the founders of modernity rationally accountable.

Global governance then took a Copernican turn, away from the paradigms of western modernity (such as national sovereignty and interest, the primacy of reason, growth, progress, representative democracy, the authority of government, western universal values, hierarchies), towards a new postmodern ethic.

They had some excuse for their view; theirs was the age of the «evangelical united front» for social reform, and the stubborn resistance of Catholics could be seen as a short - term result of their foreignness Unfortunately, the common beliefs and values on which the «common school» rested have been dissolved away by the acids of modernity.

In calling for «rebellion» in the modern situation, Leibowitz intends nothing less than the absolute rejection of modernity's key operative assumption: man as the center of value.

Therefore any idea of a simple return from modernity to tradition is to be ruled out, though redefinition of the traditional community - values relevant for the post-modern society is to be welcomed.

We are victims and practitioners of the modern mind - set that relies on what Italian philosopher Gianni Vattinio describes as «the reduction of everything to exchange - value» (The End of Modernity).

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

However, there are groups of tamed adherents of secular ideologies and religious faiths who feel that in the dialogue between religions and secular ideologies they must find some alternative path to save the positive human values and what modernity has realized of them through the last three or four centuries.

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

Accordingly, «the responses of modernity should first be looked at, not in terms of competing truth values... but in terms of divine love's force at work.»

Modernity, for Heidegger, is simply the time of realized nihilism, the age in which the will to power has become the ground of all our values; as a consequence it is all but impossible for humanity to dwell in the world as anything other than its master.

It has differentiated itself from grand macrotheoretical formulations concerned with value orientations, the comparison of whole civilizations, or global assertions about dominant themes in modernity such as universalism, pragmatism, and the like.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

At the heart of this new brand architecture, ibis Styles is defined as a cheery brand, which captures the values of pleasure and modernity for customers looking for an offer that is continually diverse, highly urban, stylish and all inclusive, whilst remaining economical.

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This project positions and gives value to the heritage of Arab modernities within an international context.

Caught between the tensions of Islam and modernity, Europe and the Middle East, freedom of expression and communal values, faith and secularity, the artists in «Without Boundary» tend to be skeptical of religion, politics, and social mores.

Following on from Tokyo, New York, Taipei and Hong Kong, this special event underlines the brand's values of creativity, modernity and excellence.

Shibboleth asks questions about the interaction of sculpture and space, about architecture and the values it enshrines, and about the shaky ideological foundations on which Western notions of modernity are built.

I can't help but think that your work glorifies urban spaces and modernity, yet values the importance of real, in - person experience.