Sentences with phrase «authoritarianism if»

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

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Without a religious culture, the slide into statism, if not authoritarianism, seems to become irresistible.

How we discharge the duties of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism of the last two decades, or by raising our voices on behalf of the laws and democratic norms of our country — is a question of moral conscience, suitable for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.

But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.

If a relapse into traditional authoritarianism is a distinct possibility in America, and I believe it is, we might ask what are the likely candidates for the job of supplying the new orthodoxy.

If the actual life of a community whose whole reason for being is to witness to the coming of God's Kingdom is itself deeply flawed with unjust practices (lack of due process, sexism, authoritarianism), then it can hardly witness effectively to history's own hope.

If kids perceive authoritarianism as normal and mainstream, they may be less distressed by it (Dwairy 2004).

Scholars of democracy and authoritarianism have already found that unpopular autocrats can remain in power if there is no real alternative and they have rigged the political and electoral system in their favor.

This was turned into an «authoritarianism» score: if you scored high you were more likely to agree with the statement.

Compared with other cues, such as the thought of seeing something disgusting, it was a high disgust - response to the thought of body odours that most strongly predicted if a person would rate highly for authoritarianism (Royal Society Open Science, DOI: 10.1098 / rsos.171091).

But the movie works as a critique of authoritarianism even if he's just a mayor and the dogs are just dogs.

And even if authoritarianism is put in place by consent or through acquiescence then everyone has to consider how likely it is to be helpful based on historical precedent.

The real fear, and it tends to be highly correlated (studies keep showing, anyway) with strong «conservatism» and even more, with authoritarianism (at least libertarians, once they get a great grasp of the facts, if not zealots, can start to change their perspective on CC) is both fear of change, and fear of a wildly myopically presumed macroeconomic harm.