Sentences with phrase «evils of modern»

Lewis and Klein — no friends of global capitalism — portray the workers as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an end - run around the evils of modern business.

Plane rides are a necessarily evil of modern business, but they don't have to be a work killer.

Not exact matches

The third and final installment of «The Witcher» series, in which you're out to stop an evil otherworldly army called «The Wild Hunt,» will take place in a massive open world that's «larger than any other in modern RPG history» and «30 times larger» than previous «Witcher» games.

The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

Also, the Bible has basic elements of good vs. evil, and for the purpose of a sermon (ie a pastoral message meant to convey some sort of spiritual lesson), having a good modern day example of Christian symbolism is always a fun tool to use to keep a congregation interested.

I often ask my wife if what i did or said was evil and i more often then not get «yes» so as i said before, i believe its a matter of perspective of those involved and the society it takes place in — but now in the modern day where your actions are on youtube in a seconds notice — the world is the final judge... and that does» t bode well for the U.S.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

A doctrine challenged by science can be abandoned; a commandment that clashes with modern attitudes ignored; the problem of evil washed away in a New Age bath.»

Watch muslims in the name of islam.Not 100 years ago but in modern day.Islam is evil and everyone who follows it becomes evil.Let the videos speak.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

In fact, although it may sound old - fashioned, I do not believe that we take the question of «evil» seriously enough in modern days, so that we are continually being disappointed, shocked or horrified by its manifestations.

It is not without significance that the modern artist has given himself so fully to envisioning evil and nothingness, or has been so deeply bound to visions of Satan, of chaos, and of emptiness; for the artist can not escape the reality of his time by fleeing to an earlier moment of history.

You vigorously deny the existence of God, yet you frequently blame Him for all the «evils» in the world, all the natural disasters, and everything else under the sun that is wrong in modern society.

More accurately, their illiteracy is spiritual, and their kind of omniscience brings a peculiarly modern anguish to the problematic knowledge of good and evil.

Christian Century reviewers also disagreed: Samuel Terrien thought that J. B. presented «modern man's reaction to the problem of evil without the category of faith in a loving God» (January 7, 1959, p. 9); Tom F. Driver found the play afflicted with «a sort of theological schizophrenia,» divided between its religious and humanistic dimensions (January 7, 1959.

When we think about modern culture, we might naturally gravitate towards some of its «evils» (more on this in a moment), but there is so much good to point out.

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

Buber has demanded, as no other modern thinker, the hallowing of the everyday — the redemption of evil through the creation of human community in relation with God.

cit., «Religion and Modern Thinking,» p. 100 f.; Images of Good and Evil, p. 82 f.; The Way of Man, p. 44 f.) He has, accordingly, real freedom — the freedom of a separate person to go the way of his own personality, to do good and to do eEvil, p. 82 f.; The Way of Man, p. 44 f.) He has, accordingly, real freedom — the freedom of a separate person to go the way of his own personality, to do good and to do evilevil.

What new attitudes toward evil do these typically modern manifestations of evil evoke in the modern man?

Yes, Breaking Bad has some grisly moments, but ultimately, it's a remarkable piece of modern American fiction about the lengths we will go to justify our own evil, the little temptations that start adding up to real wickedness and the ripple effects of our own actions.

The problem of modern man is not that of finding deliverance from the unseen powers of evil, or from the burden of guilt, but is the search for meaning in human existence.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

Her books include Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy.

The biblical answer to the problem of evil in human history is a radical answer, precisely because human evil is recognized as a much more stubborn fact than is realized in some modern versions of the Christian faith.

A bunch of hedonistic, evil people like yourselves who have no religious beliefs are helping to shape the modern world.

C. S. Lewis suggested that a modern version of the Fall in the Garden of An Eden (coming to «know good and evil») might be interpreted this way — coming to know that one's own view of good and evil is not the only one and may not be the correct one.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

The modern utopias of liberalism and of Marxism have asserted the possibility of the order which overcomes evil emerging either through gradual development or catastrophic struggles in history.

(4) Modern culture has tried to explain away the problem of evil, flying in the face of the known facts of history.

Niebuhr said that modern culture does not have a principle of interpretation that adequately takes into account the unity of man's self - transcendence and his physical life, the meaning of individuality, or the origin of evil.19

Furthermore, those approaches, sometimes found in Catholicism, which tend to depict God's coming as Man and his agonised death on the Cross as more than was strictly necessary or as under the primary control of evil are insufficient for meeting the modern challenge of allowing God to be God.

It is this: that the greatest evils which harass the modern world and which threaten it with destruction are the lineal descendants of the doctrine that man is naturally good.

These «people» are an embodiment of modern evil and have no place in any real church and no place in the 21st Century for that matter.

According to Murdoch, the thoughtful modern person can no longer conceive of men and women as rational creatures who are slowly expunging evil from their midst; instead, it is necessary to think of human beings as «benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.»

She saw modern Catholic experience as Manichaean — the dividing of human experience into areas of absolute good and absolute evil.

A biblical appreciation for sexuality, with a candid acknowledgment that sexual desire can be a force for good or evil, avoids some of the more extreme responses to the modern sexual revolution.

But no observant Jew, either in antiquity or modern times, has ever claimed that eating pork is an evil in and of itself or that resting on the Sabbath is so inherently good that it is enjoined on the whole human race.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

When Jesus represented Abraham in Paradise saying to Dives in torment, «Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish,» (Luke 16:25)-- as though such reversal of circumstance, issuing in a permanently divided humanity, some in bliss and some in torture, would be an ethically adequate ending to the human story — he spoke in the traditional manner of Judaism, but the modern conscience remains unconvinced.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

After the immemorial evil of parricide for which the wrong man is convicted, after the irradiation of the Russian soul with baneful modern ideas, Dostoevsky enshrines a transcendent moment of ordinary fellowship in kindness.

Monster: The one you spelled out is this «Once I understood the Bible was not a good guide for morality, all of the arguments that were offered up as explanations or excuses for a book that is certainly evil by modern, civilized standards no longer held water.»

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

A modern, secular version of this view can be found in certain tragic views of life which assume that evil and suffering is part of the human condition to which there is no ultimate solution.

Part of the problem that many modern Westerners have with this view is that we rarely see or recognize how depraved and evil people can become.

The creator of light and darkness, of the good and of the evil instinct, of health and sickness, confronts modern man in the unity of his numinous ambivalence with an unfathomable power, in comparison with which the orientation of the old ethic is clearly exposed as an excessively self - assured and infantile standpoint.

The modern, secular version of this view sees evil as a product of human institutions and social structures which can be overcome by human solutions.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.