Sentences with phrase «which society values»

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As a society, we don't agree on how to define the problem, we don't agree on who is responsible, and we don't agree on a set of values from which to seek answers.

Rather, success is how well it sustains the ideals, values and engaged citizenship on which free societies depend.

It holds about 100 MSCI USA companies with the highest ESG ratings, determined by the degree to which they reflect socially conscious values with regard to the environment, society, and corporate governance.

Creating Shared Value (CSV) is the basic way we do business, which states that in order to create long - term value for shareholders, we have to create value for socValue (CSV) is the basic way we do business, which states that in order to create long - term value for shareholders, we have to create value for socvalue for shareholders, we have to create value for socvalue for society.

And I'm talking about real profits which are coming from productive assets that are creating new profits which is new collateral, new value that underpins our society.

They have created Prelude, a suite of educational tools that develops soft skills — imagination, intuition, hunch, affect and creativity — the value of which is beginning to be properly recognized in the education system and greater society.

Both persons and societies have a derivative value in this metaphysical scheme, for it is only actual occasions of experience which have value in themselves.

It may be even more difficult for liberation theologians to admit that there are values in the perspective of the oppressor when they see so clearly the marks of interest in the structures of society the oppressor has organized and in the ideology by which these are justified.

One part of the answer is that in a pluralistic society we do not have many shared values by which to shape the body politic, whereas we are able to agree that economic improvements are desirable.

It is simply that I have decided that the only theological work worth doing at the moment is that which contributes toward the creation of a vision and a set of values relevant to the transformation required for civilization to survive and move into the promise of the planetary society.

When it attained power and influence its ideal faded and, in large measure, it conformed to the values of the society in which it had power.

At present this urgently requires a well - argued case for religious freedom; [13] without it Christians will certainly sufferbut society will suffer immeasurably as it loses the spirit of Christianity which has contributed so essentially to the freedoms and values which have benefited it for so long.

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.

All of them use the current values of secular society as the point of reference against which to present the moral teachings of the Catholic faith.

But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:

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.

The chaos and psychological insecurity of our world, the confusion and conflict of values regarding drinking and drunkenness, the traumatic circumstances to which many children are subjected — these are a part of the sickness of our society of which the sickness of alcoholism is one manifestation.

Maybe a more positive valuing of human sexuality, which is evident in contemporary Christian thought, may help to combat the trivializing of it in Western society.

Whatever may be the level of a given society, it can and does develop such sharing, such participation in agreed values, such mutuality in pursuit of them; and it leads to the appearance of a «culture» which expresses such agreements and aims at their implementation.

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.

> Actually, it is the liberal Western society which has no qualms about invading, bombing, and destroying > societies that do not comfort with so - called Western «values.»

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?

The manifold forms through which society's most essential values are communicated are not, therefore, of secondary importance.

I believe that one of the best routes to the center of Whitehead's perspective is to view his metaphysics as an elaboration of a basic value assumption in which the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations reflect a drive in the universe toward the evocation of greater complexity, deeper intensity, and wider range of contrasts within the organic unity of an individual or society.

Typo in a previous post of mine: «We already see this true in Europe in which their science and math education along with a society valuing science has created unprecedented numbers of non-believers *»

It seems to me that the church has been simply supine before the mores of Western culture, according to which it is indecent to talk about death in polite society P «Theological Perspectives on Aging,» Human Values Institute Conference, May 12 - 14, 1986; published in Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith, and Ethics, November 1986].

Thus, individuals and societies need a system of values by which to live; the nature and pace of modern cultural transformations have cut men adrift from the security of established ideals.

A new U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower, stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

The values on which these societies were based were not seen by the colonizers, as meaningful for human living.

A free an open society is one in which the freedom to purse any inquiry regardless of where it may lead is valued.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

We must learn how to distinguish the Christian message from the operative assumptions, values, and pursuits of our host society, and more particularly those segments of our society with which, as so - called «mainstream» churches, we have been identified.

In addition to propaganda, society also employs censorship against those communications which threaten commonplace values and assumptions.

It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy, faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.

The result was a group, initially called The Responsible Society, which as Family and Youth Concern became a strong voice for family values.

This represents a refreshing and welcome change from the physicalist and «value free» programmes which abound in Western societies.

This renewal requires a commitment to fundamental values within a framework of belief - in this case Christian faith - that is in dialogue with other frameworks.49 From a similar perspective, Robin Gill sees the primary function of the church in society as that of generating «key values which alter the fundamental moral, social, and political vision.»

The Church teaches many things about the way in which society should work: about the laws we make, about how we treat one another and respect each other's rights, about behaving justly with our money, about the value of human life and the duties we owe to the communities in which we live.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A planetary society is emerging which makes requirements for human fulfillment that can not be met unless there are profound changes in the ideas, values, and power coalitions that now determine our priorities and shape our future.

Clearly we find ourselves living in a society which through its most powerful medium communicates a set of values, assumptions, and worldview which are completely at odds with the religious values, assumptions and worldview professed by more than 70 % of its citizens.

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.»

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?

In fact, capitalism has rendered society an entity in and of itself, which has ended up by imposing its norms and its objectives on all of society, where everything has a commercial value and we are heading for a state of total market.

My own hope is that the religions of the world will come together to affirm the spiritual and moral values on which a new world society needs to be based.

They do not deny the value of tradition or social order, but they are searching for a new strategy by which to bring about basic changes in society without too much delay.

There is an essential difference between a faith which recognizes responsibility for the universal human community but does not seek to dominate it, and master race theories such as Nazism, or the interesting new Japanese version of Nichiren Buddhism known as Sokka Gakkai (Value - Creating Society).

While Platt puts his faith in the resourcefulness of the sciences to solve human problems, he highlights the importance of the value question at least implicitly by his insistence on the necessity of reordering the priorities by which we as a society invest our talents.

In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even commercial advertisements.5 Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer culture.

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

This means that those realities which refuse to assume or submit themselves to be valued in monetary terms as commodities have no place in society.