Sentences with phrase «civilized societies manifest»

And although it is true that different civilized societies manifest varying degrees of «communal unity» depending on their particular social - historical situation, and / or political orientation, still it is the case that there is a general metaphysical equivalence in this regard.

The issue concerning the extent to which a civilized society manifests a certain «identity» of social character — that is, the extent to which it is a self - identical entity — can likewise be resolved by comparison to a Society per se.

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On the other hand, it is certainly the case that a civilized society does not exhibit any type of overriding unity greater than that which is manifest by the many individual efforts of its constituents.

In an equivalent light, a civilized society is constituted as an enduring, i.e., historically continuous, entity which manifests a definitive set of social relations that transcends the invariable changes in its membership.

Thus a civilized society does manifest some form of real individual unity.