Sentences with phrase «viable social order»

Of course, very few couples — at least the ones I know — fall in love to redeem the erotic or build a viable social order.

Not exact matches

To ensure a viable future for the country, the new order would have to rest on a foundation of truly reasonable norms, about which a stable and healthy social consensus could cohere.

Hume's assertion that our «religious phase» may have been the «inevitable» precondition or «vessel» of secular morality (it isn't clear whether he means naturally or historically inevitable) can't get the ethical humanist secularist around the more haunting question of whether the secular political project of mass ethical secularism is viable, much less sustainable — especially if that social order is not to be grounded in philosophy, and especially if the politics in question must, as apparently it must, be one grounded in rights to freedoms.