Sentences with phrase «for civilized man»

Imputing responsibility has always posed a problem for civilized man.

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Morally, man is evil, and becoming more so as he grows more civilized: what grounds have we for hoping that he will improve?

The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope... the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

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....

But regardless, I say that Dylan, for the sake of civilized and civic - minded decency, and yes, also on the grounds of hesitancy about so categorically pitting his young man's gut instinct against the experienced judgment of men like Kennan and Aron, should have aborted «Masters of War» before it ever emerged from his lips.

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.

(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.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

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.

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and womFor this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and womfor the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

For centuries men had thought of Rome as a stable feature of civilized existence.

Particularity is the basis for generality, just as individual moments of experience are the basis for man, and man is the basis for a civilized epoch.

At a conservative estimate the story of man's origins takes us back at least half a million years and man has been civilized for only about two per cent of this period.

You act as though it were a negligible matter that for innumerable generations forward - looking men, paying a price in sacrifice which no imagination can compute, have been building up the decencies, securities, and opportunities of civilized life.

Focused inward on containing man's capacity for evil through a pattern of small habits, it runs the risk of atrophying into dry ritual rather than enriching civilized life to the fullest — but that is the worst it does.

Even though we are a civilized world and women are equal to men in many respects - it is still hard for a single woman, all alone, all by herself, to go to a bar and have a drink and try to meet a guy.

Since man become civilized, we have been creating communities to engage with others and improve the quality of life for all involved.

Native characters are aggressive, imperious, evil, savage, and the diametric opposite of the «civilized» white man who blames the Native for being on white land before the whites arrived.

Trevor Howard, most famous for much more civilized turns in films like «Brief Encounter» and «The Third Man,» delivers one of his most dynamic performances as an ex-serviceman who, bored with civilian life, joins a gang of black marketeers for excitement and money.

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

In particular, enriching field trips contribute to the development of students into civilized young men and women who possess more knowledge about art, have stronger critical - thinking skills, exhibit increased historical empathy, display higher levels of tolerance, and have a greater taste for consuming art and culture.

«Hardened canine criminals meet their match in Evans (The Evans Guide for Civilized City Canines), who here outlines methods and philosophies likely to reform a rogue's gallery of aggressive, unresponsive, non-house-trained animals marauding as man's best friends.