In its origins, society views business organizations as institutions that will produce and sell the goods and services it needs and desires.
The first was the intuition of Rousseau, his favourite philosopher, that the principles of social justice go back to the very origins of society.
From its Protestant and Enlightenment origins, American society has tended to honor the personal conscience of the dissenting individual — at least in principle, although, as any atheist running for public office can testify, not necessarily in practice.
(Jacobi, 1781) For one thing, Wieland was historically wrong by misconstruing the actual origin of societies.
He talks disparagingly about boundless regions of ignorance in our conjectures about other societies, and among those he has in mind who speak ignorantly about earlier conditions of humanity are Hobbes, Rousseau and Hume in their discussions of the state of nature and the origins of society.
Today's LGBT focus on marriage equality betrays our movement's origins at society's margins.
Many of his works can be seen as Enlightenment speculations about the origins of society and politics, including the Death of Lucretia (1768), an event thought to be critical to the birth of the Roman Republic.
The New York City Police Department Emerald Society is the oldest of its kind and now has 10,000 active members, said the current president, Joseph J. Keenan Jr. Unlike previous Irish societies, which were centered on religion or ancestors' county of origin, the Emerald Societies that began to take root in the 1950's were for those of Irish descent in a particular occupation.
Today it is odd to encounter a book about the origins of American society that gives more space to the spats between Congregationalists and Presbyterians than the origins, motives and actions of Africans.
"There was a thread of respect that runs through the origins of the society," said John Horlbeck, 56, a former Navy officer whose father was also a society member.
