Sentences with phrase «civilized man»

However, it is in the description of axial man and not of civilized man in general that the discussion of freedom and individuality belongs.

It is reasonable to suppose that parallel with these new developments in society there was also the emergence of a new structure of existence, a structure that distinguishes civilized man from his primitive ancestors.

(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.

That which constituted civilized man in his distinction from primitive man did not, in itself, bring with it freedom and individuality.

Wish they would one day, and join civilized man.

Rational consciousness played an ever greater role, and we must assume that, for greater or lesser parts of their lives, civilized men found the seat of their existence within this consciousness.

Imputing responsibility has always posed a problem for civilized man.

Religion is what civilized man so he could go on to study Science.

One can not torture morally, because civilized men know that torture is an inherently base act.

I think not as I look at the evolution of civilized man seems to follow a very consistant pattern of constant impovement at some level.

Here, oddly enough, Darwin maintained that savage man has an advantage over civilized man.

What, then, shall we say of the structure of existence in ancient civilized man?

(a) I have already discussed the primary one: since, owing to the limited resolving power of our perceptions, the sentience of most of nature is hidden from our direct and distinct experience, it was natural enough for early civilized man to form the division of nature into animal, vegetable, and mineral or inanimate.

We wonder whether civilized man is greatly different.

Perhaps the marked individuality that characterizes civilized man is just what must be overcome.

In his books and particularly in the recent Understanding Media, McLuhan delivers a vigorous indictment of the literate Western civilized man, busily engaged in rejecting the new media of communication and information - passing such as television.

This was a deeply civilized thing to say — he was a deeply civilized man — and a response whose appositeness it seems not too snooty to suppose few of his interlocutors were likely to have understood.

The New World reeks of career summation, neatly collapsing so many of the various strands of Malick's filmmaking into a single work: Man and nature, man in nature, «natural» man vs. civilized man, the role of the outcast as actor in and outside of history.

Just as before the rise of civilization, those factors which went into the making of civilized man were already present without gaining adequate expression to alter man's basic situation, so during the course of civilization, those factors arose which went into the making of axial man without transforming the basic character of civilized existence.

Blackmun's opposition to the law is based on the right to privacy, «the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men, [namely] the right to be left alone.»

Wish they would though and join civilized man.

Thereby, civilized men found themselves more and more cut off from the unity of group life and thrown into lonely isolation.

With perhaps more faith in education than a modern man can have, the philosopher believes that civilized men will simply know that some actions are inherently base.

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

It is under constant assault and it takes most of the energies of civilized man to keep going at all.

This civilized man - about - town begins to spend his late nights robbing the homes of friends whose parties he has attended earlier in the evening.

The ad by the American Freedom Defense Initiative states, «In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.

We civilized men... do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment....

I've seen the light, OD «y, and it don't bother me one tiny bit to tell you that s - s marriage is a pseudo union, not approved by God - anywhere - and proven time and time and time again to be the downfall of civilized man.

Rorty holds fast to the view that «To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly, is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian» (CIS 46).

In the astronomy of civilized man, careful observation, intelligent generalization, and accurate prediction played a large and impressive role.

Thus we may say that the rise of rational consciousness as an important new factor, which constituted the threshold crossed by civilized man, prepared for the possibility that the seat of existence shift into this consciousness.

I have been speaking as if primitive man, civilized man, and axial man each constituted a single type, recognizing that they shaded off into each other; but we must also recognize that the variations among groups and individuals belonging to each are very great.

They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone» the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

The oral tradition he received (and this all helped to make him the civilized man he was becoming) had already created names for the large number and varied kinds of personal forces who made his world such a live place.

The number of people through out the history of «civilized man» killed in the name of Jesus.

Civilized man is insulated far more than he realizes from the raw material of living.

Carroll is speaking about an advertisement originally rejected by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority that reads: «In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.

I'd have to agree, wish they would one day and join civilized man.

Any particular community life touches only part of the ijature of each civilized man.

There is a natural and uncontrollable tendency on the part of civilized men to get up picnics and barbecues.

It presents, on the brink of civilization, early modern man, whose God - loving and fundamental lust for vengeance still drives today's civilized man.»

And civilized man was almost destroyed.