Sentences with phrase «civilized culture»

Hidden beneath the totems of so - called civilized culture, we find the barbaric truths of feudalism, serfdom, colonialism, and imperialism.

In the words of one Connecticut Supreme Court justice, public education is vital «not only because our state constitution declares it as such, but because education is the very essence and foundation of a civilized culture... it is as necessary to a civilized society as food and shelter are to an individual.»

For twenty centuries the Christian faith has struggled to come to terms with culture, and with the Christian ethic of love has both informed and challenged the various expressions of civilized culture, particularly in the areas of science, art and education.

Miller is trying to make the point that organized religion is morality for a civilized culture.

@Jarhead Those civilized cultures / societies would not have reached consensus without a divine rule book to go off of.

All other civilized cultures have moved on to bigger and better things.

He traveled the world studying primitive and civilized cultures and found out that the diets between the two populations were vastly different in nutritional content.

The beauty and power of the natural world and the accomplishments of highly literate and civilized cultures are celebrated in Beverly Miller Orthwein's sophisticated watercolors.

Not exact matches

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

One thing that separates a civilized man from a terrorist is that the cultured man will not do anything to win.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

Yet, in the less spectacular cases that take place under more normal circumstances, the equivalent selfishness, acting in one's own interest, no matter what damage is done in the process to the other, is considered somehow acceptable in our so very «civilized» culture.

Civilized values are derived from the necessity of cooperation between individuals in order for cultures to survive.

They only want to be happy, and their cruel fate is that in the process of trying only to be happy against the grain of established culture they manage, more or less, to get civilized.

That appraisal would have been supported by the fact that geographically Christianity was confined to a smaller proportion of the earth's surface than it had been at the close of the fifth century and that the cultures into which it had entered were held by fewer of civilized mankind than had been true at the close of the preceding height of the Christian tide.

From our mention of the Roman Empire we must immediately go on to note that the Roman domains included only a fraction of civilized mankind and an even smaller proportion of the human race outside the «higher» cultures.

Disassociation makes it easier to identify with our «civilized» nature, deny our «savage» roots and connection with indigenous cultures.

If I'm not mistaken, one of Le Billon's distinctions is that the French are not inherently more civilized or culturally superior but they do deliberately and intentionally make food and culinary culture a priority to be addressed in schools.

@I'm digressing, but: I wish there was more of a culture of civilized discussion.

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25 years, I am a well cultured and civilized girl who respect for relations and elders.

Touting prime hot spots - including the future site of the United Nations headquarters - «Mighty» trumpets American virtues, and there's a secondary message to foreigners, that integrated adoption of American ideals will reinvigorate wounded nations, and lead them to the civilized greatness - in architecture, art, society, and culture - as depicted in «Mighty Manhattan.»

In particular, enriching field trips contribute to the development of students into civilized young men and women who possess more knowledge about art, have stronger critical - thinking skills, exhibit increased historical empathy, display higher levels of tolerance, and have a greater taste for consuming art and culture.

Schools gladly endured the expense and disruption of providing field trips because they saw these experiences as central to their educational mission: schools exist not only to provide economically useful skills in numeracy and literacy, but also to produce civilized young men and women who would appreciate the arts and culture.

Culture is the back bone of any civilized country.

We Have A Moral Obligation & A Moral Duty To Care & To Protect What We As A Civilized & Cultured Society To Be With Compassion» It Is Unacceptable To Cause Pain & Suffering for Profit & Greed!

I have never understood how «civilized» cultures could endorse capital punishment — animal or human.

Chaa Creek has provided unique adventure travel experiences for thousands of visitors looking for an in - depth yet civilized Belizean vacation, with a focus on Belize's ecology and natural history as well as a vibrant, varied culture that includes the rich Maya civilisation.

In the belly of Western culture is the feeling that we're not worthy... All this internalized self - loathing is the cost we pay for being civilized.»

There were other civilized and semi-nomadic cultures adjacent to the Mississipian culture.

Even if we assume the Eastern Woodland culture was no more successful than the much less civilized (meaning much less agriculturized) hunter - gatherer cultures of today's South American rain forests, their 2.5 people per square mile population density times the 2.6 million square kilometer Eastern Woodland area results in a possible Eastern Woodland area population of 6.5 million people.

Their cities, suburban towns, outposts, road networks, canals, and irrigation projects attest to their large and civilized (meaning agricultural) populations far in excess per square mile than your average hunter - gatherer cultures and their 1 person per square mile population densities spanning the most forbidding deserts, steppes, mountains, and jungles.

One summer in France, about 15,000 elderly people died cuz the much historied and cultured Euroes don't have the civilized comfort of air conditioning.

Culture... arose about 40 thousand years ago, in the depths of the glacial climate... Civilized humanity has never seen a climate change as severe as global warming.

I also don't believe a civilized world should promote and develop a gun culture that allows everyone to be armed at all times.