Even though China's «one child per family» policy is implemented in ways that are incompatible with my personal values and, I believe,
with universal human values, I do believe this policy can be implemented in humane and voluntary ways that provide a remarkably robust response to the human - induced global challenges which loom ominously before humanity.
Short term interests and desires usually conflict
with universal human values, while long term interests / desires tend to converge.
Not exact matches
With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the
human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of
value in a culture are neither necessary nor
universal.»
So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends,
universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but
with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.
Moreover, it appears to be so exclusively associated
with the
human condition that it is hard to attribute to it any
universal biological
value.
Not only its aesthetic
value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle
with the ancient, and at the same time always new,
human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its
universal significance, in a class
with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8
Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted
with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of
human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and
universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals
with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political
values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and
human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospe
human rights, as defined in the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospe
Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.
Every society has its own internal system of
values which often are in conflict
with the
universal values of
human rights.
In this way, Lee has questioned the nature of
human beings and their notions of ideal society
with the aim of arriving at
universal values.
The programs by which leaders of the world's most populous country have gone about instituting a «one child per family» regimen in China are incompatible
with my personal
values and also not in keeping
with what I believe to be
universal human values.