Sentences with phrase «for hedonism»

Standing out amongst this already stellar list are Rob Corddry and Patton Oswalt as Dodge's buddies who are finding new standards for hedonism as social mores dissolve, and Community's Gillian Jacobs as a waitress whose gone a bit cuckoo.

It's famous for its hedonism — and its nudism.

Not exact matches

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

3 Generous, life - giving spousal love is the antidote to hedonism and immaturity: parents gladly give up frivolous pursuits and selfishness for the intensely more meaningful work of loving and educating their children.

In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

Secular Humanism and Hedonism are no match for Islamic Jihad.

In this sense, true evil appears only in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalization.

i believe gov» t is there to work for the public good, not «self - centered hedonism.»

Pessimism, stoicism, and hedonism meet in an outlook that has few if any goals for the future, and in such as there are, only short - range ones.

For despite our doubts and denials, our complacency and hedonism, he is alive.

The vision of the American dream with its great ideals and dedication to the good of mankind has become clouded, not only by social and political disorder and revelations of immorality, but by the prevalence of a self - centered hedonism which finds expression in a feverish quest for enjoyment.

It is perhaps not surprising that many Muslims are unconvinced by this self - centered hedonism in which, to return to Lennon, «all the people» are «living for today.»

Usually it is not so much our hedonism that is being chastised in this way (though that comes in for some invidious comparisons too) as our alleged «excessive individualism.»

For some ethicists, a prudential hedonism must describe human behavior.

If pleasure or happiness is understood in this very broad fashion, however, hedonism loses what many view as one of its major attractions.4 That is, recognition of pleasure as a single dominant end makes possible the use of a determinate rational procedure for moral deliberation, such as Bentham's felicific calculus (PML 37 - 43) or Rawls's counting principles (TJ 411 - 15).

The church conceived as it is in I Peter as «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation» would have to be regarded as a sacerdotal throwback, a repristinization of an archaic vision that Western civilization has consumed and digested — drawing from it nourishment for altogether new purposes: Thus, as the command «fill the earth and subdue it» (Gen. 1:28) helped inspire Western civilization to create science and technology, so Jesus» celebration of love has been culturally recombined with the materialism of the Bible to produce the vital hedonism of our civilization.

Maybe those who want sex as unbridled hedonism are ruining it for the Christians...

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

As for your assertion that I warp good existing ideas as part of my Western hedonism, may I offer that I firmly believe that living a moral life is even more paramount without a God.

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But I've been in training for this kind of hell - bent epic of hedonism, social frenzy and barbeque for, oh, my entire adult life (sorry mom), and I expect to return alive, if not entirely intact.

She says both groups of animals took the same amount of time to start taking heroin, suggesting THC use doesn't start them on the path to hedonism, but the THC - primed rats got more into it, suggesting it paves the way for increased use.

I'm officially back from Hawaii, with a few day stopover in uos Angeles before finally migrating HOME.I've been immersed in total paradise for the last 10 days, and while most of my vacations usually involve more hedonism than health, the... Continue Reading about Ayurvedic Cleansing Green Kitchari Bowl

For this month's experiments in healthy hedonism I'm focusing on whether life without alcohol, caffeine and sugar is a life worth living.

This book is not just ideal for someone struggling with autoimmune / thyroid issues; it's also perfect for people who are struggling to maintain a balance between health and hedonism, which I believe is pretty much everyone.

As I've admitted in the past, one of the results of my month - long vice detox is that I've become a bit of a fancy pants when it comes to wine.Over the last few years, since completing The Wellness Project, my pursuit of healthy hedonism has... Continue Reading about The Best Biodynamic and Organic Wines For Under $ 30

Looking for a fun friend to enjoy life with and travel with to fun places and adult playgrounds like Hedonism II in Jamaica.

And by conflating his mental instability with his descent into the dreary morass of his father's real estate dealings, the film seems to be awkwardly groping for a larger connection between David's inner state and the hedonism of late - Seventies Manhattan.

Danny Collins is a rock star that has lived the life of excess and hedonism for decades, reveling in the continued fame and fortune his talent and charisma won him in the 1970s.

But for the rest of us, Life of the Party is just another exercise in shallow hedonism.

Luckily, there's plenty of allegorical beef for everyone, as Grau paints a vivid picture of Mod Madness in steady, deteriorating orbit around the entropy and hedonism of the time — sprinkling it liberally with a disdain for dictatorships Grau no doubt nursed whilst working under the heel of Francisco Franco's regime.

What if, for example, Agent Nelson wasn't a closet freak trapped in a loveless marriage and tempted by Nucky's hedonism?

Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard watch posh boys laid low by hedonism and Woody Allen head for another slump as they round up this week's new releases

Meanwhile, they are content to live for the moment, in a shallow existence of compulsive sex, with an underlying message that the path of hedonism is the road to happiness.

A surprisingly dark tale that tracked one mutant puppet's journey through a life of hedonism and deceit, Pinocchio still works as a compelling piece of cinema for both adults and children.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

In both, Reeves demonstrates a now - unsurprising affinity for the soulful burnout character, a moral compass in the morass of the amorality of Eighties introspection and hedonism.

Mere days before the marriage, Billy invites his three best childhood friends from his Brooklyn days — Florida - retiree - in - a-stale-marriage Sam (Kline, No Strings Attached), stroke - victim - looking - to - live - life - again Archie (Freeman, Now You See Me), and widower - holding - a-grudge Paddy (De Niro, The Family)-- up to Las Vegas for a weekend of fun, sun and last - hurrah hedonism before they all settle down to ride out their remaining years.

A lesson suitable for GCSE or A-level Philosophy and Ethics to introduce Jeremy Bentham and his concept of Hedonism in moral decision making.

On Majorca, you could indulge in a girls» spa break in the lovely island capital of Palma, or head to the all - out party town of Magaluf for a weekend of hedonism.

For generations the holiday playground for people from all walks of life, the Gold Coast attracts visitors from around the world, seeking a shot of its mix of hedonism, sporting facilities and thrilling attractioFor generations the holiday playground for people from all walks of life, the Gold Coast attracts visitors from around the world, seeking a shot of its mix of hedonism, sporting facilities and thrilling attractiofor people from all walks of life, the Gold Coast attracts visitors from around the world, seeking a shot of its mix of hedonism, sporting facilities and thrilling attractions.

Koh Phangan, is a prime destination for anybody who likes to dabble in some tropical island hedonism every now and Read More»

: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics and Professional Hedonism,» is set for release next week.

On the other hand, golfing and nightlife are better in Montego Bay; if you want hedonism, head for Negril.

Motherwell took the haptic magic of the best of dada / surrealism and the cool hedonism of late Matisse and mixed it up with the high velocity and headstrong lunge for originality that he had absorbed from his New York painter peers of the 1940s.

For now, however, in the throes of youth, hedonism and fame, Basquiat asserts his sovereignty: the undisputed ruler of all he surveyed, presiding over a kingdom of «multiflavors».

, New York Times, 21 November, p.E34 Griffin, Tim, Artforum, November, cover, pp.154 - 163, 206, 212 Enwezor, Okwui, Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art / Snoeck, November, p. 177 The Guide, The Guardian, 29 November / 5 December, p. 35 Yinka Shonibare: of hedonism, masquerade, carnivalesque and power.

What Greek Gotham does is then expose the myth to the penetrating Cycladic light, let hedonism and the aesthetic take over, dissolve geography; what remains is the addictive desire for a place we know doesn't exist, a fiction that hinges on the real world but is for ever beyond its reach.

New Orleans» geographic position and economic history have made it a gateway for trade and travel between the United States, Europe, and the Global South, and it has long been considered a site for indulgence, hedonism, and no - holds - barred fun.