Sentences with phrase «ancient human societies»
The findings could shed light on the role group singing played in ancient human societies, and they suggest ways to encourage group bonding today.
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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....
Just as the ancients used the terms «wind» and «breath» metaphorically to refer to the invisible «spiritual» forces that operate in human societies and motivate their cultures, so we may need to draw upon such vague and indefinite terms in order to understand what is happening in this tradition.
Berlin fears the ancient faith in and search for a perfect and harmonious society, «an ideal for which more human beings have, in our time, sacrificed themselves and others than, perhaps, any other cause in human history.»
The school fulfills in our times the role of the ancient initiation rituals, which introduced our children to the society and to their human and sacred role in this society.
In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.
But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.
The first was a constant influx of genetic material from ancient Africans, who had no Neanderthal DNA and who continued to pass through Western Asia for thousands of years as human societies grew in Europe and Asia.
Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.
Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society, argues that conspiracy theories come from an ancient human tendency to stay on guard against predators.
«Ancient Peru: Major discovery of early human life: Elaborate baskets reveal sophisticated societies in the late pleistocene and early Holocene ages.»
In fact, Hannam said, many societies have banned or limited the carving up of human corpses, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to early Europeans (that's why Galen was stuck dissecting animals and peering into gladiator wounds).
A new era in palaeomicrobiology: prospects for ancient dental calculus as a long - term record of the human oral microbiome — Christina Warinner — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B — December 2014
Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society.
Amy Pleasant's exhibition «re / form,» at Whitespace Gallery through February 15, presents a lineage of human history and responses to issues of identity, from ancient to modern times, caused by weighing one's role in society against one's place in nature.
They looked to ancient Greek literature as well as to «primitive» cultures for a more authentic connection with the underlying forces of nature, especially human nature, than contemporary Western society seemed to provide.
In the Western Mediterranean, where human societies colonized and occupied the coastal areas since the Ancient times, the variability of storm activity for the past three millennia was investigated with a multi-proxy sedimentological and geochemical study from a lagoonal sequence.
From the food markets of ancient Rome to the emerging boom in renewable energy, markets touch something very powerful in the human psyche and can deliver great good for society.