This in turn led to the commonly - held belief that the golden
age of human society lay in the past, and hence true knowledge was to be gained by searching for the best that past ages had bequeathed.
Not exact matches
Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements
of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world
of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements
of the modern
age» the recognition and guarantee
of freedom
of conscience,
of human rights,
of the freedom
of science and hence
of a free
society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....
Personally I see more value in appealing to
human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views
of iron
age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host
of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern
society.
This he did not give and it is good that he did not, for in the changing currents
of human society new applications
of his way
of life must be found for each new
age.
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].
Any student
of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning
of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface
of the political, economic and military history
of the period and discern what was going on in the minds
of men, becomes aware
of a widespread expectation
of a turn for the better in
human affairs, even the dawn
of a golden
age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed
society for a century or more.
How long can a
society remain free when the lives
of entire classes
of human beings are, because
of age or frailty, deemed by law to be Lebensunwertes Leben, just as they once were so deemed because
of race or creed?
Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part
of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead
of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance
of purity amid vile motives and
human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless
age.
gjp, so you prefer the myths and best guests
of ignorant iron
age societies who had about a billionth
of the knowledge and understanding
of modern
humans?
It did not seem in those
societies of human beings that there was a reverence for
age or even a devotion to those who were one's physical parents.
In our
society we all are concerned about high blood pressure (hypertension), as it is one
of the serious health problems by which
humans are suffering in this
age.
In Western industrialized
society,
humans quadruple their birth weight between 2 and 3 years
of age.
«The next step in understanding sleep apnea in the future will be to dissect different subtypes
of sleep apnea, likely defined by distinct pathophysiological mechanisms which may underlie different outcomes and predisposition to comorbidities,» Cavadas says, «As
human life expectancy increases, delaying the onset
of age - related diseases becomes critical to our
society.»
Tendencies that have come to define modern Western
societies include the existence
of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New
Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and
human migration.
«Ancient Peru: Major discovery
of early
human life: Elaborate baskets reveal sophisticated
societies in the late pleistocene and early Holocene
ages.»
Although we stray from the path more often than we care to admit,
human society is all about the
age - old business
of boy meets girl and sets up home under a roof, so much so that it explains such things as the size
of our testicles, the manifest oddities
of the female reproductive system, and why we prefer to have sex in private.
The Mars
Society is pleased to announce that it has joined the online Marspedia project started by two other space advocacy groups - The Mars Foundation and The Moon
Society - in an effort to build out a great resource for people
of all
ages to learn more about the planet Mars, promote the
human and robotic exploration
of the Red Planet and encourage STEM education.
It wasn't until
humans moved past the hunter - gatherer years and into the
age of civilized
society that marriage and relationships really took on a new role.
Absolute Middle
Age Masterpiece with a naked soul kind
of sound all along... This is the album that all us (the fans) deserve from the Band that have just reinvented themselves one more time... Striped down to the the core
of Thom Yorke's vision
of Self,
Society and the
Human Mankind... beautifully crafted over half acoustic and orchestral / half electronic instrumentations... this is the OK Computer for the Y Generation... Classic!
SOCIAL SCIENCES: World History GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - WH.5 - 12.1 The Beginnings
of Human Society NSS - WH.5 - 12.2 Early Civilizations and the Rise
of Pastoral Peoples NSS - WH.5 - 12.3 Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires NSS - WH.5 - 12.4 Expanding Zones
of Exchange and Encounter NSS - WH.5 - 12.5 Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000 - 1500 CE NSS - WH.5 - 12.6 Global Expansion and Encounter, 1450 - 1770 NSS - WH.5 - 12.7 An
Age of Revolutions, 1750 - 1914 NSS - WH.5 - 12.8 The 20th Century
With the advent
of an
aging society, it is necessary to promote the health and physical strength that will constitute the basis
of human activities through a lifetime... [There is a] need to have children experience a spiritual uplift through physical activity.
Her passion for veterinary medicine was sparked by her interest in the
human - animal bond while volunteering for a therapeutic riding barn and the Humane
Society of Indianapolis at the
age of 13.
To foster strong
human - canine relationships and ensure that more dogs have forever homes, Family Dog School at Berkshire Humane
Society (BHS) offers a variety
of training opportunities, including group classes, behavioral consultations, and private lessons, for dogs
of all
ages, breeds, and skill levels.
The American Veterinary
Society of Animal Behavior suggests that «enrolling in puppy classes prior to three months
of age can be an excellent means
of improving training, strengthening the
human - animal bond, and socializing puppies in an environment where risk
of illness can be minimized».
Match - a-Paw is the Humane
Society of Greater Miami's program designed to promote young adult dogs (between the
ages of three and six, or as we like to call them, «Paws over 21» in
human age.)
Set in the far future, where
humans inhabit a peculiar techno - Stone
Age society and robot dinosaurs stalk the earth, it tells a well - above - average story through the eyes
of its protagonist Aloy, an agile huntress uncovering the grim narrative
of the Earth's downfall.
2017 XX Bienal de Arquitectura, Valparaiso, Chile Breaking News, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA The
Society Machine, The Industrial
Age from the Perspective
of Art, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden Witness: Photography and the
Human Condition, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA XII Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico
As put by the artist himself: «I do believe, in at least a metaphoric level, that the union
of human and machine, represented best by smart phone addiction, embodies the «Anti- Christ» as believed in by esoteric
societies as a figure that is as crucial to the present epoch, the Aquarian
age, as Christ was to the past era, the
age of Pisces.»
The rise
of human civilisation coincided with the end
of the last Ice
Age: humankind went from small groups
of tool - using nomads to settled agriculture, the growth
of the cities, the birth
of writing and mathematics, and the flourishing
of the Space
Age, the Information
Society and the onset
of human - engineered climate change.