Sentences with phrase «from authoritarianism»

Their goal was to explain the mystery of South Korea's successful and smooth transition from authoritarianism and poverty to an affluent stable democracy.

Labour remains tentative and conflicted on democratic renewal and has only begun a journey back from authoritarianism to firm support for civil liberties.»

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Theology, on the other hand, has truncated its capacity to deal with those important issues it does raise by giving the appearance of authoritarianism or special pleading rather than participating from its own resources in free and open discussion.

The fundamental tenet of benevolent authoritarianism — «Do what I say and I'll take care of you» — tends to make weaning from immature dependency difficult.

At a moment like this when there doesn't seem to be a lot going right — ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence by ideological fanatics; feckless responses to both from the democracies — it's good to be reminded that things can be different, and in fact were different, not so very long ago.

Parkman, like Foote, wrote history from a point of view: in Parkman's case, the Whiggish conviction that, when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, North America was won for liberty against popish authoritarianism.

This opposition stems from the negative experiences he had made with hierarchical structures in society and the church, structures that suppress, in their harsh authoritarianism, creativity, autonomy and criticism.

But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.

Such a new order would involve, as in the case of traditional authoritarianism, an abrupt shift away from the exclusive dominance of technical reason, but it would not involve the adoption of the reified objective reason either.

He found that «Literally - oriented religious Believers did not differ significantly from Mythologically - oriented Believers on measures of intelligence, authoritarianism, or racial prejudice.

GFI has provoked unprecedented public censure from Christian leaders because, although it is not a cult, it has consistently exhibited a pattern of cultic behavior, including Scripture twisting, authoritarianism, exclusivism, isolationism, and physical and emotional endangerment.

RM: This distinction seems a crucial one and might explain why republicanism can seem to accommodate such a wide range of political views, from extreme authoritarianism in the name of liberty to collectivism?

Such authoritarianism generally springs, it seems to me, from the assumption that there are certain true ends for mankind, and that liberty consists in following them.

However, the difficulties they encounter in terms of delivery provide little impetus to steer away from competitive authoritarianism and introduce reforms that would promote democracy by levelling the playing field or improving accountability.

In fifth place this week is an article which pointed towards comments made by Alex Salmond about banning «all Donald Trumps» from Scotland and the passing of a law which could see football fans questioned and arrested just for the clothes they are wearing, as evidence that Scotland is drifting towards authoritarianism under the SNP.

Mr Hogan - Howe has a mild reputation for authoritarianism after he spoke out against the case brought against the Met for the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the downgrading of cannabis from class B to C.

But all the same, she'd like a bit more consistency from May's policy positions, rather than the baffling mixture of progressive far - sightedness and authoritarianism which is currently on offer.

The researchers found that the IWAH was stable over time, distinct from a general empathy and tendency to identify with others, and was more than the mere absence of authoritarianism, social dominance and ethnocentrism.

To test that explanation for the Harry Potter effect, Mutz focused on three core themes from Harry Potter: The value of tolerance and respect for difference; opposition to violence and punitiveness; and opposition to authoritarianism.

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

An often uproarious new comedy from the creator of «Veep» takes aim at authoritarianism.

In this case, though, the show imagines that the forces of authoritarianism will come from foreign sources, rather than domestic ones.

«I wince a little reaching back, mainly from an unmistakably male authoritarianism that made most of us feel insignificant or inadequate.

And how is that different from an Orwellian regime of authoritarianism and theocracy?

«Bauhaus, Dessau,» taken from a photograph taken by the artist of a stairway in the Weimar - era school with the human figures entirely removed, serves as a chilling reminder of the effects of authoritarianism, globalism, right - wing populism and what the gallery calls «the locusts of power.»

Novoa's invented urban landscapes — the paradoxically bleak yet handsome architectures of authoritarianism — borrow from the visual vocabularies of widespread, twentieth - century nationalisms and their various programs of propaganda across the West.

It was designed to play host to various cultural and economic spectacles intended to distract the public from the less savoury manifestations of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos» particular brand of conjugal dictatorship, which they (and Washington) had ludicrously rephrased as «democratic authoritarianism.»

But he has nonetheless found himself «really shocked by the sheer authoritarianism of those who would have excluded from the debate the point of view of people who were climate - change deniers».

Chief among them are «traditional» air pollution such as car and truck exhaust and smokestack emissions; destruction of land and water from extracting and transporting fuels; and the militarism, economic inequality and political authoritarianism that is endemic to extractive economies (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Indonesia).

Authoritarianism speaks to the loss of faith in other people, distrust of institutions, and personal experiences of detachment from the world.

The tweet storm that erupted after a Washington State judge declared Trump's executive order banning people from seven Muslim - majority countries from entering the U.S. unconstitutional (the decision was upheld in the Ninth Circuit) has been a fascinating psychological study in authoritarianism and a lesson for all of us about the importance of impartial judges.