Sentences with phrase «view in a free society»

«we see [atheists] openly challenging Christians and insulting them on their own blog page» — as if an atheist speaking on a public forum in a free country is unacceptable — as if «challenging a christian,» let alone any view in a free society, is unacceptable — as if a public blog is his

Not exact matches

In my view a free society means that people can use whatever kind of currency they prefer.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

One of the Yale ministers stated this point of view very well when he said: «Alcoholism is a sin only in the sense that it is a sin attributed to society, especially a Christian society — that we have been unable to bring about a world free from the tensions and conflicts of the present day.

There is no acknowledgment that, in the view of many, a discrimination - free society is one that does not discriminate for or against people on the basis of their race or gender, as quotas certainly do.

This view is eloquently stated in the influential Harvard Report of 1945 on General Education in a Free Society.

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

Inherent in Christian understandings of the realities of the human condition and of what personhood might be if it were set free to flourish, and in Christian understandings of society and church, is a strong stress on human sociality and an equally strong resistance to the ways in which individualistic views of personhood erode or deny sociality.

The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.

It should be conducted in a more independently, relatively free from party political horse - trading, taking the views of citizens and civil society seriously.

The Royal Astronomical Society will be running a (free) event outside our headquarters in the courtyard of Burlington House, central London, where members of the public can come and view the transit using appropriate equipment at no cost.

Their results are now available in a free access article from Society and Natural Resources, titled «Environmental Views from the Coast: Public Concern about Local to Global Marine Issues.»

Much of the drama in «A Fantastic Woman» has a free - flowing, observational quality, as Marina attempts to reconcile her romantic personality with a society that views her as an outsider.

«Trauma 1 - 11: Stories about the Free University in Copenhagen and the Surrounding Society in the Last Ten Years», 2011, Installation views.

At page 78 he refers to the Law Society submission and states «The report does not however give, in our view, adequate attention to the way in which the market is manipulated by BTE insurers so that clients are not free to choose the solicitor of their own choice... The Association of District Judges has made known to the Law Society, during 2008, its concerns that this system frequently operates as a denial of justice to claimants who lose, undersettle or not pursue cases as a result of the nature of representation provided.».

While there is no doubt that the Covenant's refusal to accept LGBTQ expressions of sexuality is deeply offensive and hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and we do not in any way wish to minimize that effect, there is no Charter or other legal right to be free from views that offend and contradict an individual's strongly held beliefs... Disagreement and discomfort with the views of others is unavoidable in a free and democratic society.

The Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy, in partnership with the University of Toronto Munk Centre, has organized a free Citizens» Forum where representatives from the three major political parties can express their views on the «crisis» & how they believe things will unfold once Parliament resumes on the 26th.