Sentences with phrase «what society values»

«If we take seriously the notion that school buildings present students with powerful messages about what society values, then school architecture needs to be radically rethought,» she says.

Our biggest architectural accomplishments are highly visible symbols of what society values most, and those values have changed over time.

Far fewer cite these as examples of what society values most in women.

Not exact matches

Millennial 1: What, is money your only benchmark for judging a person's value in society?

This is how stories build societies, he adds, by teaching us what our values should be.

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

Target has always worked to create shared value — doing what is good both for its business and for broader society.

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.

I agree that this is a test of American society — it is a test to see what we can come up with that allows us to maintain our core values without willy - nilly caving to cult masquerading as a religion.

In his widely persuasive attempt to apply «systems theory» to political analysis, for instance, David Easton writes that «what distinguishes political interactions... is that they are predominantly oriented toward the authoritative allocation of values for a society» (EPA 50; see also PcS, chapter v).

What is possible for those who survive is to live locally and in community with others who have the same values rather than those of the self - destroying society around us.

What is now possible and will remain possible for those who survive is to live locally and in community with others from the values of God's Commonwealth rather than of the self - destroying society around us.

Values can not be identified with what is desired, and society can not accept the market alone as the basis for deciding which desires should be fulfilled.

Rose may be happy to see her values of right and wrong imposed on society at present but what will it mean when she herself is deemed at some time to be wrong on a socially disputed issue?

Values can not be identified simply with what is desired, and society can not accept the market alone as the basis for deciding which desires should be fulfilled.

It is the onus of those who want to legalize the drug to show what value it will bring to society, and so far, I have yet to see a good reason to legalize marijuana to the general public.

I shall return to how he suggests we understand value arising from what is being called, in his peculiar way a «society,» but the point from Adventures of Ideas is clear enough: however we learn to appreciate the status of a complex whole comprised of constituents, it must be construed in a manner which permits that complex whole to serve in turn as constituent within a larger and more complex level of organic whole.

One function of narratives is to call attention to how societies are ordered and what values shape the order.

The real question, then, is: To what extent are we willing to give up the value of absolute freedom of expression in order to protect society from expressions which might destroy other values in our society, or the society itself?

They are particularly essential in a society devoted to values, to keep before the public a clear vision of ideal ends to be served and to show explicitly in what respects materials offered for public reception do or do not measure up to these standards.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

What every society must have if it is to survive is commonality — common interests, language, tradition, institutions, values, ends.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

In What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West (HarperCollins), he argues that the Qur» an and Islamic principles support the values of pluralism and free society.

As we try to plan and direct the evolution of human society and its pluralistic values and styles, by what are we to be shaped and transformed?

In his chapter on democracy, Sen argues that a democratic polity is important first because freedom is an inherent good, second because it contributes to economic well «being, and third because societies need free political debate to choose what economic «needs» to value.

What CS Lewis saying, we can not expect to force Christian values on our society; for instance, divorce and homosexual marriage.

The basic question the First Amendment raises is: To what extent are we willing to give up the value of absolute freedom of expression in order to protect society from expressions which might destroy other values in our society, or the society itself?

We can dream of a perfectly balanced society, where the difference between individual initiative and solidarity are reduced to a simple state of tension, where human beings are judged because of what they are rather than the added - value they produce, where cultures are considered to be equally valid expressions of being and where scientific and technical progress is oriented towards the well - being of all rather than the enrichment of a few.

Any people and pastor wishing to take God's Word in Scripture seriously, therefore, will regularly be asking what issues or values in the surrounding society are addressed by that Word.

and «What values (secular or otherwise) found our society?»

In the second place, he proposes to the truly revolutionary societies an attention to what is of value in their own contexts, and a program for growth to world consciousness — education, religion, an ethical business community, and so on.

learned peaceful people have been saying for many years that most muslims and what they are taught is aganist Proper Moral Values and a peaceful society, and what they have done is prove these people to be correct.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

And especially ascets usually still have (in parts of the world) kind of special social standing, unlike in supposedly superior systems where merely the amount of mammon and looks are considered as what determines «social standing» — with money (or similar) being a / the «value» of determination of «social standing» surely making some sense in a capitalist (ish) system, tho there being many (possible) downfalls to that, such as «robber society».

This is the natural consequence of the logic of exchange as the foundation of worth and value: if worth is based upon what one has or knows or achieves, those who have little by society's standards become worthless and expendable, objects of scorn, neglect and abuse.

What precious little is left of Christian belief and values in our society is rapidly being eroded.

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.

To the degree that members of oldline Protestant denominations participate in this reinstitutionalization of society and in the consequent erosion of deep values, their loyalties will be dispersed over a number of different social worlds, they will exist without what JeanFrancois Lyotard has termed a societal «master narrative,» and they will surely experience lukewarmness with respect to traditional faith.

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..

What does follow is that in some sense God relishes the realization of value by all finite occasions and societies of occasions and the maximization of value for the whole world community.

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

There is considerable resonance between what ordinary people in society value and what the megachurches have to offer.»

It seems much simpler to me to say that the structural possibilities for the self - constitution of currently concrescing actual entities are present in the society or field of activity to which the entities belong, but that only God in virtue of the divine primordial nature has an infallible understanding which possibilities will be genuinely fruitful and to what extent they will be fruitful and which possibilities will ultimately be fruitless, at least in terms of the achievement of higher goals and values.

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That is, it must involve study of the dominant images, symbols, and stories by which the congregation's host society tells itself who and what it is, what its vision of the «good» or «fulfilled» human life is, what its central values are.

This function, which is of important value to society, is made more difficult if counselees must always fear that what they admit to the counselor may be extracted from him by threat of imprisonment, or if the counselor takes the attitude, openly or impliedly, «Don't tell me anything that might get either of us in trouble.»

«A society which limits itself - and its education - to a positivistic understanding of reason [limited to what can be positively seen] will find itself unable to determine shared moral principles and values.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.