Sentences with phrase «what open society»

To this end, I like the sound of what Open Society stands for, and I shall endeavour to engage with them in the future, particularly since they espouse values so different from your own.

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When asked in an open - ended question what traits society values most in men and women, the differences were also striking.

What «the homeless, tempest - tost» were supposed to find once they arrived on these shores was an «open society,» with «equality of opportunity.»

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

But, no matter what your opinion is on actual marijuana usage, the fact that the DEA is open to revisiting a legal classification that many view as deeply flawed could be a sign that government officials are finally going to fix laws that have had serious affects on the society it is supposed to be serving and protecting.

It opens by asking what role religion still «plays in today's American society.»

Globalization has also meant that we are moving from what may be called the closed society — that is, one surrounded by a clear boundary — to the open society.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

It seems to follow that, just as a dominant philosophical imaginary governs the quality of understandings of the world, so the myths that inform a self - creating social imaginary must delimit what that society can as well as should make of itself, while leaving certain possibilities open.

But for those of us who work in political and social philosophy (and theology), a great question remains: What is the proper relation of Christian faith to the open society?

Considering the vast array of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the whole of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue of faith indicates a very pointed discernment of the signs of the times made by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most lacking in the century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be faith.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

Religions don't own the copyright or playbook on what it means to be kind, accepting, loving, good parents, brothers, sisters... The sooner people open their eyes to this, the sooner we can get beyond this relic of of pre-history and advance the world society as one in unity.

Cheating in and of itself is a narcissistic and destructive urge that our narcissistic society sadly nurtures and feeds, and yes, it would be far better to openly deal with issues of monogamy / nonmonogamy — and engage in open relationships if BOTH parties mutually agree — but this narcissistic and unjust DOUBLE - STANDARD has to go where supposedly «nonemotional» men get a pass on what actually constitutes cheating, not open relationships, but «emotional» women do not.

What does it say about our society, that we are so willing to welcome abusers into the spotlight with open arms?

If Russia can allegedly influence the American Presidential Election by spending $ 100,000 on facebook adverts, one must ask what influence the $ 18,000,000,000 given by George Soros to Open Society buys.

What is at stake here is her unique account of modernity — that, instead of making man more individualistic and society more open, the modern, social sphere has held sway to the point of trampling upon all other spaces that locals hold dear.

Professor Kath Woodward is a researcher at the Open University and the ESRC's Centre for Research into Socio - Cultural Change and is organising the event, she said: «This event will provide important answers on what is social about sport and how it fits into the wider society.»

They despise the open, tolerant and multicultural society that Britain has sought to become and they are determined to reverse what progress has been made towards that aim.

We are intelligent enough to open our eyes and see what is really happening to our society.

«What we need in a diverse and increasingly non-religious society is not Church schools, but schools that will be genuinely inclusive of all: open to all children, not restricted in admissions as many state funded church schools are; open to all qualified teachers, not jealously guarding their legal right to discriminate; teaching a broad and balanced curriculum, not a narrow curriculum coloured by a single unshared religion.»

She described how in Mexico (where she served as embassy public affairs officer) environmentalists created what she called «an opening in civil society» that expanded when a devastating earthquake hit their country in 1985.

When you can start to tune out the noise of doing what society says is normal or just doing what you've always known because it's comfortable, it's then you can open your eyes up to new possibilities and learn to hear what your body is really saying to you.

As in the changes we're seeing in our global society, one needs to keep an open mind to what is good and progressive change.

Jing Shen, the CEO and co-founder of Paktor said: «Society has become more accepting of dating apps and what we are doing here is opening the app up to more users.

What Is There to Know about Bi Dating When you first hear about bi dating the first thought that comes to mind is the fact that you will have to deal with all sorts of unpleasant situations because of the fact that society is not that open when it comes to one's sexual identity.

In what can only be described as a massive sweep, Open Road Films «s Nightcrawler laid waste to everyone and everything today as the San Diego Film Critics Society gave it a whopping seven wins, including Best Film, Best Director (Dan Gilroy) and Best Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal).

Based on a D. H. Lawrence novel of living free in a changing Britain and how that plays out sexually in such a suppressed society, we start with two good friends (Glenda Jackson and Jennie Lindon), a rougher contact in high society (Oliver Reed) and more open, freewheeling friend (Alan Bates) examining the slowly blooming new freedoms, their connection to nature, each other and what that portends for the future in this lush, warm, personal film that holds up extremely well today and has some of the best work of all involved.

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

But if we come to the conclusion that man is not a wolf to man, that man does not kill and does not overwhelm the other for pleasure or instinctive compulsion, the way will be open to the demand for other types of societies that allow humans live in a way different from what occurs nowadays.

With the reauthorization of ESEA looming, we need to make a strong case for what really matters in education: well - supported public schools that are open to all children, provide a rich, relevant curriculum, and connect to the community and parents in ways that strengthen our society.

And, I allowed my own voice to come into my teaching in a more open way than ever before as I told students what it was like to go to elementary school when the school system was integrating in the 1960s, and how my own views on what was happening and how I should act in social situations differed from some of the messages I received from society.

As FBI director James Comey said in his February 12 speech, we can ignore the realities of racial conflict in our society, or «we can choose to have an open and honest discussion about [what] our relationship [could be] if we took time to better understand one another.»

A must read for anyone interested to know what Russians really think of the States, and how the soviet Russian mind tries to survive in the open society of the West.

If you are open to adopting an adult dog, let the staff of your local shelter or humane society know what you are looking for - a surprising number of purebred dogs wind up there.

The Sauk County Humane Society (SCHS) is an open admissions shelter and turns no animal away in its time of need, no matter what its age, condition, extent of injuries, or behavior.

I notice that a «Petland» is going to open soon (probably right before Christmas, the bastards) not far from where I work and I am going to go to the head of the Humane Society here and see what can be done about it.

«Watch Dogs,» the latest open - world action game from Ubisoft, does not exactly take place in the real world, but it does provide an eerie picture of what modern society could become.

Titled ASSEMBLY, this section of the fair includes many activist - minded projects, which Adrienne Edwards say she hopes «will serve as a platform to help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest by breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience and making new propositions that open up conversations about the role of art in today's society.»

With this week's opening of the 2017 Whitney Biennial within a politically tumultuous moment in history (or what the 2017 curators describe as a «turbulent society»), we reflect back on the show that altered the way institutions address identity and the politics of race.

Opening on 23rd January at the Rook & Raven gallery, Bigger Than The Both of Us, a solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Corinne Felgate is comprised of two new major installations, Bigger than the Both of Us (MOMA) and Studio X Y Z, that draw on the artist's on - going research into our collective relationship with the man - made environment, and how society's perception of the manufacturing industry shapes our understanding of what it is to exist in the world today.

If these comics, which can be found at the New - York Historical Society's «Armory at 100» website aren't enough to excite you about the museum's major Armory show opening October 11, then I don't know what will.

Adrienne Edwards, Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum and the new Live section at Frieze, said «I hope that together these projects will help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest,» adding that breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience might «open up conversations about the role of art in today's society.»

Battling exhaustion and the flu on the Monday after the opening, Goldstein, sitting in the Stedelijk's popular restaurant with a cup of fresh mint tea, considered for a moment, then said, «If artists make arguments about what a work of art can do, and if artists give us an opportunity to have insights through their own eyes and words to culture we all share, I think Mike, in a most profound and almost impossibly comprehensive way, gave us not only a window [into] but in some ways a means to rethink art and to examine our relationship to our culture and our society.»

We will endeavor to use what we have learned in these intentional communities to contribute to a more just, open, accepting, and creative society.

This year, we were lucky enough to see one in a series of many of this ongoing practice by R.H. Quaytman, whose exhibition Passing Through the Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, at The Renaissance Society opened in early January.

«I am interested in the space this text opens up for us to imagine and voice what we want in our leaders, and even beyond that, what we can envision for the future of our society,» says Leonard.

IRIN has undertaken a project with the Open Society Foundations to explore the challenges that global warming is triggering, and what local communities are doing to adapt, to reduce their vulnerability.

Hey, I mean they have an open society where anyone can say what's on their mind right?

Take dare of yourself, Dr Judith Curry, Defender of the Open Society... Try physio, sports chiro, tai chi, what ever it takes, you need two strong arms in your fight for science and justice and the George Washington — American — Way... Then, once more into the fray!