Sentences with phrase «age of human society»

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.

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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.