Sentences with phrase «from modern civilization»

The Spa and ritual is protected from modern civilization and is nestled by the mountains.

With its white villages atop lava rock cliffs and blue - domed churches overlooking a sunken caldera, this postcard - perfect Aegean island feels a thousand miles from modern civilization.

9 MILE POINT, La. — Director Steve McQueen was just a few yards from modern civilization — in this case, an air - conditioned sports utility vehicle that had brought him some 45 minutes from New Orleans — but as he looked around a sprawling plantation...

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Such opinions were little changed from those expressed in an entry from 1932: «Nothing good can come out of modern civilization, in the broad sense.

From railroads and airlines to military weapons and industrial conglomerates, the industrial sector makes it possible for modern civilization to exist.

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

The Foucault by whom we are first moved to question modernity, the Foucault by whom we are first shown the absurdity of the modern project from its beginning, is not the Foucault of the epistemological Order of Things and Archaeology of Knowledge, but the Foucault of the historical Discipline and Punish, Madness and Civilization, and Birth of the Clinic.

On the face of it, this simple fact would appear to confirm the common tale of Western progress from medieval religious barbarism to modern, more secular and therefore less violent, civilization.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

You can't wrap your head around the bible because it is nothing more than an ancient fable from the past and has no relevance with the advent of modern science and modern civilization.

Modern man takes the products of civilization for granted, as if they were dropped from trees in a tropical paradise.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

That is, it arises precisely from what has been most characteristic and creative about modern civilization: its dynamically accumulating knowledge and technology, its expanding industrial system and its emphasis on egalitarian consumerism.

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

Thus we shall reasonably say that the seismic shift in civilization to a distinctly modern framework can not be removed from its technological milieu.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Ancient and worldly, almonds have appeared throughout civilization from antiquity to modern times, celebrated as a symbol of good luck, fertility and love.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

Man has been crafting arrows from wood, metal, and stone since practically the dawn of civilization, so if you're in the market for the best bow hunting arrows and you aren't fond of modern methods, you've come to the right place.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

Aside from an open casting call, the museum is the best demonstration extant that modern Los Angeles is a thin veneer of civilization overlying a sea of brutality.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

He found 14 cultures who not only did not experience tooth decay, they were also immune from many of the diseases plaguing modern civilization.

Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization, located in the Bhl region of the modern state of Gujart and dating from 3700 BCE..

That presentation sounds like a chore to most modern moviegoers, for we as a civilization have moved on from silents as anything but historical curiosities and are never turning back from synchronized sound.

It introduces them to: - The term «globalisation» - The spread of artwork from ancient civilizations such as the Romans - The impact of trade along the Silk Road - The impact of colonialism on the spread of artwork and art techniques - A comparison of very local artists such as John Constable with modern global artists such as Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

If you're looking for a compact truck with some fairly serious off - road chops (for a stock truck at least) and don't care about a smooth ride or all the modern technology, then the Nissan Frontier is the truck for you (especially if you spend lots of time away from civilization where breakdowns can be more than just an annoyance).

From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe - the chicken.

The origins of the Chihuahua breed can be traced all the way back to ancient Mexico and it is commonly believed that the modern Chihuahua descended from an ancient companion breed, the Techichi, which was developed by the Toltec civilization before the 9th century.

The modern Chihuahua is descending from the Techichi, the favorite dog breed of the Toltec civilization of Mexico.

Central America is a popular tourist destination for travelers from all over the world and contains everything from the remains of ancient civilizations and colonial towns to modern beach resorts and the second largest rain forest in the Americas.

SimCity Creator will allow players to create their own virtual paradises spanning all the way from the likenesses of ancient civilizations, to the modern day architecture of the 21st century.

Lead a civilization from the dawn of man to the modern age, and go head - to - head with history's most intrepid leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known in a race for ultimate supremacy.

Images: Destroyed Syrian Army tanks in Azaz (Creative Commons), A shot from Bitter Lake (BBC), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (Activision), Battlefield 1 (EA), Civilization 6 (2K Games)

Known for its strategic gameplay founded on historical civilizations, the series spans a period of time from the Stone Age to early modern time, and even includes an episode exploring the legendary creatures and lore from mythology.

Lead your civilization from the dawn of man to the modern age and beyond.

The original RDR spanned from 1911 - 1915, and during this period modern civilization was beginning to creep up on the old ways of the west, whether it was talk about Flying Machines or early Automobiles rolling along the streets of Blackwater.

== Keep Craft is an incremental civilization management game that lets you lead your people from the stone age to the modern era.

The eclectic array of goodies on show spans geographies, cultures and civilizations, ranging from pre-historic shamanistic totems and early religious images of vision and ecstasy, through to modern works by Kandinsky, surrealist pieces by Miro and Man Ray, and specially installed works by Anish Kapoor and Marina Abramovic.

Saint Louis Art Museum One of the major art centres in America, the museum's permanent collection consists of 30,000 objects encompassing art from Prehistory, Antiquity, Africa, Asia, Islamic civilizations, Oceania, Pre-Columbian art and American Indian cultures, as well as American and European fine arts, plus outstanding examples of modern and contemporary period / movements.

The title «Crossing the Rubicon draws from an important moment in the history of Western civilization, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river in Italy in 49AD and changed the genesis of modern Europe.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

If fossils of anatomically modern humans can be found from 200 - 300 thousand years ago, why didn't a technological civilization develop during the Eemian interglacial?

«The United States — and modern civilization more generally — faces a present and continuing existential threat from naturally occurring and man - made electromagnetic pulse assault and related attacks on military and critical national infrastructures.

These fuels virtually powered the industrial revolution and are still the backbone of our modern civilization, providing the power to generate the electricity to cool our homes and offices, provide lights, television, radio and computers, power our cars and provide the heat to keep us from freezing in the winter.

«Modern civilization is heavily dependent on energy from sources such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

As the image at right shows, modern human civilization itself has made the situation substantially different from prior climatic cycles.

Modern smartphones seem like a technology from an alien civilization when placed next to the original cell phones.

We're talking America as it transitioned from a lawless frontier to modern civilization.