Sentences with phrase «authoritarianism which»

But all the same, she'd like a bit more consistency from May's policy positions, rather than the baffling mixture of progressive far - sightedness and authoritarianism which is currently on offer.

Often he is a satire, a joke on authoritarianism which savages left and right.

It would seem then that the only way to purify our concepts of God of the false authoritarianism which can only sanction a suppression of our natural love of personal freedom, is to accept without reservation the image of the defenseless (but by virtue of that quality, radically powerful and creative) God who withdraws any intrusive presence and thereby opens up the future in which alone human freedom can dwell and find nourishment.

Not exact matches

In terms of a secret agenda for collectivist authoritarianism, I admit a few liberal elites are that depraved — I was myself shocked by the degree to which the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, the ones who helped train our current President and whose leader (Michael Harrington) I myself read and admired in the 80s, were open to deception and smear - tactics, as revealed by Stanely Kurtz's Radical in Chief.

It's an authoritarianism of permission, which is something quite different.

Festivals, musical forms, and other features of folk culture are not denounced as antiquated features of authoritarianism that seek to destroy autonomy, which seems to be what the Frankfurt School thought about folk culture.

The problem with the «Christ against culture» position is two-fold: first, strong reaction tends to increase the attractiveness of that which is banished; and second, the rejection of many cultural experiences tends to leave persons psychologically involuted, intellectually isolated, and spiritually subject to the pride and authoritarianism generated by any dogmatic and closed system.

Rather, it is for him a profoundly spiritual question, because he finds behind authoritarianism an image of God which refers to a severe ruler who does not support humans in their own being but hinders them.

For example, authoritarianism does so by forcing the child to choose between security and autonomy, both of which he needs.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

The acceptance of that reliability became the ground for a new authoritarianism in which a book was substituted for an institution.

Pentecostalism is authoritarian in the sense that it strongly emphasizes obedience, but it is a different kind of authoritarianism than is practiced by the Afro - Brazilian religions, the carnival clubs, and other popular Brazilian associations, which depend on a single leader.

To join and stay in the EU, member states must be democracies — that means unelected European Commissioners, and even other heads of other member states, do not pronounce on member state democratic politics (unless a country is veering towards authoritarianism — in which case the EU treaty has clear procedures for this — see Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:SOM:en:HTML).

Levitsky and Way posited two mechanisms which raise the cost of authoritarianism: Western leverage, defined as a country's vulnerability to external pressure, and linkage to the West, defined as density of the country's ties to the US and EU.

Here, May was validating the path of a country over which we do have some influence as it embarked on an experiment in right - wing authoritarianism.

In fifth place this week is an article which pointed towards comments made by Alex Salmond about banning «all Donald Trumps» from Scotland and the passing of a law which could see football fans questioned and arrested just for the clothes they are wearing, as evidence that Scotland is drifting towards authoritarianism under the SNP.

Trump «doesn't seem to have an impulse against projecting an image of authoritarianism, which is new,» added Michael Macleod - Ball, chief of staff for the ACLU's Washington legislative office.

Policy is determined by the loudest voices, reducing us to a world in which might makes right — the classic definition of authoritarianism.

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

The painting reflects on the political climate during the time the Bauhaus was in operation - the 1920's and 30's, and serves as a framework through which to consider the other paintings in the exhibition which depict places evoking authoritarianism, globalism, the rise of right - wing populism, and locusts of power.

The painting reflects on the political climate during the time the Bauhaus was in operation — the 1920's and 30's, and serves as a framework through which to consider the other paintings in the exhibition which depict places evoking authoritarianism, globalism, the rise of right - wing populism, and locusts of power.

It was designed to play host to various cultural and economic spectacles intended to distract the public from the less savoury manifestations of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos» particular brand of conjugal dictatorship, which they (and Washington) had ludicrously rephrased as «democratic authoritarianism.»

The political establishment's absorption of environmentalism allows it to substantially lower the standard by which it is measured, and gives authoritarianism a legitimising basis.

With regards to climate change, I agree with George Brandis who is shocked by the «authoritarianism» with which some proponents of climate change exclude alternative viewpoints.

«The Greens opt to pressure democratically elected governments to reject a large body of science in favour of authoritarianism and promote policies which create unemployment and economic contraction.»