Sentences with word «civilizational»

If the West is to recover from the crisis of civilizational morale in which it has been immolating itself, it is Christ who will help humanize the earthly city through the agency of the City of God, present in an anticipatory way in the counterculture that is the Church.

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

This is what «a new civilizational paradigm» finally means.

challenge of global governance without historical precedent, where solidarity and human cooperation are the symbiotic key to integrate ecological bioethics as civilizational meeting - point

The abundance of scientific research showing we have pushed nature beyond its limits does not just demand green products and market - based solutions; it demands a new civilizational paradigm, one grounded not in dominance over nature but in respect for natural cycles of renewal — and acutely sensitive to natural limits....

In this case, the enduring refugee crisis prompts precisely the sort of civilizational clash that Huntington foresaw: lands, resources, and the loyalties of people are all likely to be violently competed for as one group appears to be threatened.

Here are the names of a few civilizational disasters where populations were disarmed to «protect» life; Nazi Germany, Maoist China, Soviet Russia, the killing fields of Pol Pot's Cambodia.

States continue to be the primary actors in an anarchical system with scarce resources and where self - help is required for survival, but cultural fault lines — arising from civilizational differences — rather than ideological or economic issues are posited as the dominant source of conflict in global politics.

It presents a challenge of global governance without historical precedent, where solidarity and human cooperation are the symbiotic key to integrate ecological bioethics as civilizational meeting - points.

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It's one of the things I've always enjoyed, Mark - just when the sense of impending civilizational collapse threatens to overwhelm, the conversation takes a tangent into thumb - in - braces musicals.

This impending civilizational conflict indicates the fact that tribalism is so deeply entrenched in human behavioral patterns that it not only refuses to wither away but, in times of mounting tension in the face of threatening world crises, it is likely to intensify.

Given the role of food shortages in earlier civilizational declines, we obviously should watch food price and hunger trends closely.

The members of the American commentariat most attuned to this plague of Euro - childlessness tend to discuss its impacts in terms of the rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and the difficulties so many European states seem to have in assimilating immigrants from a different civilizational orbit.

They point to the past and note how Islam led the world for centuries as the greatest civilizational system.

They said the Nazis were wrong on the basis of clear reason, civilizational tradition (remember the fences and signposts), and biblical faith.

And it is certainly not irrational or irrelevant to insist on that most basic of civilizational requirements: the protection of innocent human life.

That doesn't mean it should be about surrendering any part of its ennobling civilizational mission.

The newspapers that reported on the WCC meeting were also discussing «Islam Hadhari» (roughly translated as «civilizational Islam»), the phrase the government has given to its vision of a modernized faith.

But whether or not this relationship is given in any extensive manner in prior Christian literature, it is a subject of utmost importance for our entire civilizational venture.

That Catholic theology today offers the modern secular world a vision of civilizational unity it no longer seeks.

According to Dreher, «The key thing to notice here is that the original Benedictines understood that the process of civilizational decay was, in the short run, irreversible, and that therefore the only reasonable thing to do was to make a strategic retreat behind defensible borders.»

World history is a history of ethnic, national and civilizational interactions and encounters.

The historian's task was to trace the power, and the shift from one civilizational moment to another.

Eighty years ago, the conflation of God's purposes in history, the Christian mission, civilizational progress, and American power was affirmed with dogmatic certitude by the most influential liberal religionists, Harry Emerson Fosdick prominent among them.

This kind of adversarial characterization of relations between states, whether framed in national or civilizational terms, misconstrues cultures and civilizations as insulated, isolated, monolithic entities, undervalues historical cultural sharing, and overemphasizes the conflictual nature of the international system.

Collective Civilizational triumph is not a zero - sum enterprise that favours one geo - cultural domain over another.

Recovering this common history helps us to go beyond cultural and civilizational stereotyping and to recognize conflict as contingent rather than inevitable.

As he clearly implies without however really stating it explicitly, the enemy is merely holding up a mirror to our own our own civilizational malaise.

In a 2013 conference at the University of Vermont, Ehrlich assessed our chances of avoiding civilizational collapse at only 10 percent.

A great, civilizational drama looms, but what we see on screen is a lumbering, flat - footed fancy - dress melodrama.

In this sense, the SDGs of the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations represent an innate opportunity for the emergence of a new biomimetic civilizational paradigm, since it is essentially an authentic Humanifesto: it is characterized by the universal declaration of human reconciliation with the environment.

The artist dissects a variety of tales from laboratory life on the one hand, and on the other, he explores civilizational connections and colonial exploitation methods within the concept of landscape.

Whatever cloud of civilizational angst hovers over us, she suggests, our lives as sentient, indulgent beings can't help but go on.

Providing clean energy for the nine billion people the planet will hold in 2050 is a problem that's equally civilizational in scale.

Thus although I believe strongly in thinking hard about our paleolithic roots as indicators of our mental and civilizational capabilities (see my most recent novel «Shaman») I also think we are changing culturally, and can now think on the scale of centuries, and plan and act accordingly as a civilization.

then there'll probably be a bit of a lag before the regional power failures, waterborne diseases, fresh water shortages, famines and general civilizational collapse begin to whittle down the population.

By incorporating capacity, it respects the obvious truth that climate is an overarching civilizational challenge that will demand major financial resources.

The problem is less that Mann is unpersuasive in bridging the gap between scientific findings and the possibility of civilizational catastrophe and more that he doesn't try to do so.

We know which economic indicators to watch for signs of an economic recession, such as declining industrial output, rising unemployment, or falling consumer confidence, but we do not follow a similar set of indicators that signal civilizational collapse.

Climate twitter — the most fun twitter — has recently been reigniting the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope.

Cases of severe civilizational disruption due to «precipitous collapse — often lasting centuries — have been quite common.»