It is self-reinforcing: a value-system that above all promotes that value-system itself. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: Obama's Missing Moral Narrative] Reference
Or rather, it followed for Marx because he took for granted the value-system of writers like. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Each value-system, when activated, shuts down the other, and each can be activated by language. From Wordnik.com. [The Poll Democrats Need to Know About] Reference
How many people are persuaded to change from one value-system to a conflicting one by a good argument?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
In this sense, historical materialism from the start incorporated a particular value-system: that of the Enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The individual who derives his/her value-system should be guided by time-honoured principles of what is right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Inculcation of Ethics Through Education and Globalization Effects on Ethics « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
The constitution of our country must become the highest embodiment of its political, moral and constitutional value-system. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH OF DEPUTY PRESIDENT, THABO MBEKI, AT THE ANC NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE] Reference
Hillary may have a record but she has yet to truly lead with honesty, integrity, and within a value-system I would approve of. From Wordnik.com. [Superdelegate deluge] Reference
Through socialisation many Africans have ensured that our families and communities are themselves grounded on the value-system of Ubuntu. From Wordnik.com. [Address at The Heritage Day Celebrations] Reference
Today, government as well as civil society, use elements of this value-system of Ubuntu in their approaches to the day to day challenges. From Wordnik.com. [Address at The Heritage Day Celebrations] Reference
Therefore, straightforward Madhulikar (a product of high-order Nehruvian thinking) has his value-system under threat at a late stage in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: 'Breathless In Bombay' Author Murzban Shroff Reflects On The Real Mumbai: Exclusive Interview] Reference
Many, many people base a whole philosophy, world-view, value-system, whatever, on the the pure scientific idea of evolution, which they go far beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Pious Atheism « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
He posits that our values change as a society, but concludes finally that we all share a common underlying value-system that allows us to discuss these values. From Wordnik.com. [Dear readers...] Reference
In this regard, it is also important that we project the alternative value-system that we want to replace the acquisitive and selfish one to which we are opposed. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, THABO MBEKI, AT THE OPENING OF THE 51st NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] Reference
However, as a way of stimulating debate about whose voices are heard in the genre, and why, and what other voices there are outside the US value-system; it succeeds all to well. From Wordnik.com. [Spingate] Reference
As we know, the African people in this country have, over many centuries evolved a value-system of Ubuntu with its basic tenet aptly captured by the saying: motho ke motho ka batho. From Wordnik.com. [Address at The Heritage Day Celebrations] Reference
It suggests a value-system that privileges ultimately trite works written by the middle-classes for the middle-classes, works which may well achieve gravitas at the expense of vigour. From Wordnik.com. [What is Literary Fiction?] Reference
We have to create the situation in which a new social value-system emerges, based not on government injunctions, but on a definition imposed on our country by the people of South Africa themselves. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, THABO MBEKI, AT THE OPENING OF THE 51st NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] Reference
It entails the cultivation of a value-system that results in social behaviour that opposes criminality, and discourages crime not merely because the law prohibits crime and provides for its punishment. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Aesthetics is the study of affect itself and the sensations which produce it, of how these relate, how those relationships are systematised into a value-system, how that value-system shapes our responses. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
A superficial answer to these questions may suggest that it is not possible to speak of a single South African character and identity which derives from a common value-system because we are a diverse society. From Wordnik.com. [Address at The Heritage Day Celebrations] Reference
It is the defence and promotion of this new value-system that will turn the masses of our people, at all levels of our society, into active combatants for the realisation of the objective of the RDP of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, THABO MBEKI, AT THE OPENING OF THE 51st NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] Reference
So Rodney, who had his own value-system, saw them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lee Shore] Reference
But its our strong basic value-system that has helped us survive. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
Instead, we seek to expand the geographic and normative reach of our value-system. From Wordnik.com. [The Global Buzz] Reference
My friends reflect my value-system, my educational-level and my social-standing (none). From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
Normative power implies the attraction of the ideas and value-system on which a society is based. From Wordnik.com. [The Global Buzz] Reference
CollabNetThis whitepaper discusses and defines Scrum as a framework, a value-system and a process. From Wordnik.com. [Resources | ZDNet] Reference
Assess the readiness of the organization impacted by change, including: What is the value-system?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Rather, they only exist, and are thus only specifiable, relative to a particular value-system, or axiology. From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
The United States '-- and more broadly, the West's -- value-system still animates the aspirations of people worldwide. From Wordnik.com. [The Global Buzz] Reference
In Le Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system, founded on honour and military valour; and that of the Restoration. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Overview: This article defines Scrum as a framework, a value-system, and a process - giving details from each of those perspectives to help different audiences. From Wordnik.com. [Recent White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - TechRepublic] Reference
What matters are the reasons such (technologically-derived) norms and standards come to be constitutive, in some way, of one's value-system, influencing means and/or ends. From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
China's current leaders have seized on his teachings as a means of promoting their own goal of creating a "harmonious society", as modern China searches for a value-system. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Has it generated a new televisual value-system, in which the dead get a paramilitary two-step to the grave as proof of their innocence, to the tune of "Let me walk you home"?. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
During all these years it should have further deepened the civilizational and value-system difference between itself and Azerbaijan. ". From Wordnik.com. [«Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայան] Reference
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