Sentences with phrase «dehumanization known»

It is flatly inconceivable that anyone would invent a Son of God who was consigned by church and state alike to die the most extreme form of death by degradation and dehumanization known to the ancient world.

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The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

As is well known today (at least in the academic circles of the black church), Richard Allen is commonly considered the father of the black church because of his refusal to be a member of a congregation where white Christians were making the house of God an instrument in the dehumanization of black people.

know that before signed the order for the extermination, it started with the dehumanization of the beliefs

This is not to say that Cold War — era fears of fascism, dehumanization, and nuclear war are no longer socially pertinent (the opposite might be true, given the political actors currently commanding the world stage).

No doubt this is an absurd, insane parallel, but I suggest that it makes a certain unconscious sense — all the more so in view of the cultural historian José Ortega y Gasset's famous essay, «The Dehumanization of Art.»