What is important is the impact and results, which personally tend to be gross disenfranchisement and
dehumanization which can lead to great atrocities if pushed too far WW2 and The Middle East are great examples.
The forces of destructiveness and
the dehumanization which have become manifest from the late 19th century onwards have put a question mark on the secular modern culture.
Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and
dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).
My immediate thought is for the liberation of males from
the dehumanization which oppresses them.
Not exact matches
The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism
which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and
dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.
The protest is NOT against science and structure, rather, the protest is against the «
dehumanization» of the human being by reducing him / her down to only matter and rules, and is against dismissing the «spirit & soul»
which give every individual his / her unique «person.»
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.
I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities
which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and
dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.
It is the turning of man against his humanity with
which we are concerned, the self - sought
dehumanization manifest in so much individual and social pathology in our century.
It is an inspiration for all people and especially religious communities
which struggle against oppression and
dehumanization.
Where black churchmen were bound together across denominational lines by the spirit of justice
which — though at times only timidly — opposed the oppression and
dehumanization of others, white churchmen were united across those lines by a spirit of hatred for black people.
Far from the stilted caricatures of the Johns Wayne and Ford, these days Native Americans are more likely to be represented on screen as sympathetic characters,
which is refreshing, because after decades of
dehumanization at the hands of Hollywood, they finally have gotten a chance to shine by occasionally telling stories that feature them if not as heroes, at least as human.
Quite the opposite happens; what Franz experiences is progressive
dehumanization,
which is nearly complete once he, his cash reserves having dwindled to nothing, breaks up with Eugen and is summarily cast out of his false paradise.
The
dehumanization caused by objectification inevitably leads us to the concept of disposability,
which is defined as «something designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up».
«Commerce is a positive - sum game in
which everybody can win; as technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead, and they are less likely to become targets of demonization and
dehumanization».
Specifically, my dissertation research examines whether homogeneous groups are dehumanized compared to heterogeneous groups and the extent to
which this homogeneity - based
dehumanization leads to both decreased prosocial and increased antisocial behavior.