Sentences with phrase «western idea of freedom»

This led Brague to the Biblical roots of the Western idea of freedom, where we can find something completely fresh — a basic, radical new idea that comes before all other talk of what it means to be free in our society.

Also central to her book is the contention that in their opposition to the totalitarian Roman state, «Christians forged the basis for what would become, centuries later, the western ideas of freedom and of the infinite value of each human life.»

Not exact matches

Stardew Valley deals with this of this idea of freedom and what is important throughout the game and ends up being both, enormously fun and a meaningful critique of Western values.

She discusses the ever more globalised art scene and the growing culture of biennales and art fairs, noting that many of the biennials take place in countries «which are politically and economically problematic or in crisis, and it is about the projection of one context into another; trying to impose some western idea of how inspirational art can be to those people and then leaving that place and not taking any responsibility for the idea of intellectual freedom they have proposed.»