Sentences with phrase «very values of a society»

The answer to an instant gratification culture isn't to simply discard technology but to subvert the very values of a society that calls you to produce and consume more, more, more and do it now, now, now.

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While pensions are not nearly as common as they once were, they are a very important part of the retirement plans for many of society's most valued workers: teachers, police officers, fire fighters and more!

St. Tikhon's mission of training a new intellectual cadre to bring Orthodox values into all areas of Russian society is very compelling, with parallels to what the U.S. Catholic Church hopes of Notre Dame or Catholic University of America.

And a society that believes this must, at least implicitly, embrace and subtly advocate a very particular moral metaphysics: the unreality of any «value» higher than choice, or of any transcendent Good ordering desire towards a higher end.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

Structured societies may be very complex indeed, with their subordinate societies themselves containing subordinate societies: «The Universe achieves its values by reason of its coordination into societies of societies, and into societies of societies of societies» (Adventures of Ideas 264).

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Pope expressed this relationship within the framework of the common good: «It is urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority, and no State can ever create, modify, or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect, and promote.»

At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.

as long as it is her womb.the baby is a parasite for all she cares... really truly selfish and demeaning of value of life... very shallow view... no wonder people get depressed and kill themselves... they feel they have no value with society's pathetic view of what life is and how they value it..

Such a society needs churches for providing «a very worthwhile safety net» for have - nots and for «promoting fundamental American values of hard work, family, freedom, and faith» for all citizens, as President Reagan put it this spring in thanking the National Association of Evangelicals for its ministry.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

We know that television entertains us, a companion ever ready with the escape and fantasy we sometimes need, but also that it cultivates a mean world full of violence, that its values and stories demean and dehumanize us, and that its religious impact is the very antithesis of the Christian faith in which most people in our society profess to believe.

I am a passionate Darwinian in explaining why we exist,... but if we lived our lives in a Darwinian way, that would be a very unpleasant society in which to live... One of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and our social lives».

Thus the symbol of consent was deeply imbedded in the very matrix of values out of which New England society lived.

Respect for one's elders in such societies was one of the most important values instilled in children from a very early age.

The purpose of this recollection is to show that even the judiciary has a very crucial patriotic role to play in checkmating the forces that threaten to destroy our values as an ordered human society, rather than take subterfuge under legal helplessness and technicalities.

But an unanticipated situation had arisen whereby evil - minded forces threaten the values and the very existence of the nation, exploiting the liberal values to destroy the very same society.

«Science adds significant value to the economy and society so to see it prioritised alongside school infrastructure, fast transport links and new houses is very positive,» said Paul Hardaker, chief executive of the Institute of Physics in London, in a statement.

While this mindset has gradually been shifting to accommodate the changing society, it is still very much a part of the family values system.

Adapted very faithfully from the novel by Thomas Keneally (later author of Schindler's Ark), the film concerns a young «half - caste» in turn - of - the - century Australia who feels torn between the values and aspirations of white society on the one hand, and his Aboriginal roots on the other, and who thus takes to violence against his perceived white oppressors.

Society adores winning stories, but Buschel's narrative efficiently recognizes that taken without images of money and fame, ego can be a very negative, isolating value.

Expanding on his concern that British values are not shared by all members of society, a secondary headteacher of a London school argued that tolerance of and inclusion of different groups only had «real value» and meaning in London, which as a city is «very ethnically diverse».

Built into the very fabric of our society are cultural values and habits which support the oppression of some persons and groups of people by other persons and groups.

Additionally, disabled individuals with assistance dogs attest to the fact that having the dog with them has decreased the social isolation that is a part of being different in this society — a very important part of the value of this concept.

Emily Butler, Mahera and Mohammad Abu Ghazaleh Curator at Whitechapel Gallery says: «We are very excited take our first journey into online commissioning with Jonas Lund, who has created a pertinent work asking important questions about the value of art in a globalised, technologised society.»

As the artists who created the posters see it, President Donald Trump's «Muslim ban» threatens the values of cross-cultural exchange that lies at the very core of the American society.

But some version of that doctrine is needed, or we will have to get very used to (a) injustices, as interpreted by the society we live in from time to time, and (b) more attempts to amend the Constitution to improve the wording and to avoid the consequences of judicial opinion as out of step with its times as the SCC was in 1928 (where no doubt it spoke for the values of a good portion of society, even then.)

Judicial mores following very slowly on the changing values of society (snail like speed) are changing for the better and the positive.

I think the problem is that such mechanisms are not appropriate in an adjudicative context, and make the ultimate decision either very difficult for a court to review (in that there are no reasons to review) or very easy to review (by proceeding by way of vote the law societies, prima facie, failed to comply with their duties of fairness and their duties to weigh various Charter values.

Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while building our infrastructure and highly valued social programs during some thirty post-war years.

The promotion of Charter rights and values enriches our society as a whole and the furtherance of those rights can not undermine the very principles the Charter was meant to foster.

The very holding of this inquiry, and the questioning of whether race hate protections should be reduced, sends a message to ethnic and racial groups that in the eyes of the government they are less important, less included, less valued and less protected than other members of Australian society.