Sentences with phrase «history as a civilization»

Instead, Kaplan proposed that the locus of Judaism was in its history as a civilization.

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Every major civilization in history has recognized hemp as # 1 on its list of important plants.

it is only useful as a history of the hebrews, (old testament) when taken in context with the writings of the other early civilizations in the middle east some of which have only recently been deciphered.

It permeates the history of post-Classical Western civilization as politics, culture, science, and individualism are perverted for selfish ends.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

Now, then, reason as part of the macrocosmic process is likewise in process, that is, it is still undergoing development as is manifested in the development of culture and civilization; the very constitution of history itself is the evolution of rational consciousness.

Azhar, the oldest university in the world, has played a decisive part in the history of Muslim civilization, not only in the Arab countries, but throughout all the non-Arab Muslim world as well.

In this last stage of synthesis, Whitehead returns to the history of man's effort to create civilization and shows the presence of God as Eros and Beauty present within man's consciousness, effectively directing man's pursuit of civilization even in the face of tragedy.62

He refers to the AIDS crisis in Africa as «the biggest pandemic in the history of civilization... And it is not a priority for the West.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

History means primarily civilization, as Metz sees when he says that politics is the new name for civilization.

The Hebrew sages were fully conscious of the activity and results of their colleagues; from quite early in the history of Israel's life in Palestine we begin to hear of the importance of the «wise» who must be regarded as in some way a bequest of the great Canaanite civilization.

If it is firmly held that the proper nature of man as per definitionem a personal spirit open to infinity can not further be exceeded and has already reached its absolute culmination in grace and the Incarnation, nothing in principle can be objected to the idea of a further history of man in his biosphere (and not merely in personal spirit and the products of its self - objectivation in civilization).

It was, as a matter of fact, the impact of the Judaeo - Christian tradition on Western civilization that is chiefly responsible for the awareness so prevalent among us today that history presses forward toward novel achievements, that the future is open and full of promise, that man is a free creature whose own decisions and deeds enter into the shaping of tomorrow's world.

On the basis of a philosophy of history which interprets cultures as quasi-organic units undergoing development from youth through maturity to decline, and on the basis of a comparison of the stages in the growth of world - civilizations, he concludes that Western civilization has exhausted its productive powers.

The emergence, in the course of history, of the ability to think of the other as another subject and to appreciate the moral demand that this lays upon one — to treat the other as an end and not only as a means — is an achievement of civilization that most of us are not willing to abandon.

It may be as much of a sociological law of history as we can presently establish that it is the middle classes who determine the destiny of modern civilizations.

This is why civilizations come and go, as Arnold Toynbee demonstrated in his study of world history.

As a second observation concerning our newly awakening sense of the Earth, we could say that a new phase in the history of the madonna figure of Western civilization has begun.

Accordingly, he paid special attention to (1) the special place of Judaism and Christianity in Western civilization, which the first approach had stressed; (2) the relationship between the history of religions and philosophy of religion (or theology), which the second approach had emphasized; and (3) the concern North Americans had shown for specific religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.

@Kyle, I never suggested that I said that if research had been done in the proper fields, most rational people would question their faith I guess archaeology is bit of a stretch as it is more of a human history based field but there were civilizations more than 6000 years ago

Dionysius argued that, just as the Romans had come to regard the foundation of Rome as the beginning of the civilization of ancient Rome, so the coming of Jesus Christ into the world marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the world — the Christian era.

But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing better» the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

Although Whitehead certainly affirmed progress in the history of civilization, with his emphasis on Tragedy, he was certainly not sanguine about automatic progress as were many of the intellectual currents of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The representation of History as an account of conflict between multiple civilizations is both historically incorrect and politically problematic, offering tools of manipulation and Othering in public discourse.

Although Bakir Izetbegovic's correct and justified reminder that Islam is not foreign to Europe and should be accepted as part and parcel of our European civilization, culture and history, his eulogy on the Bosniak people and the one - sided assessment of their history was a mockery to many in the audience.

The city has been described by tourism pundits as «The city of flavor ««The city of health ««A peaceful modern city» «A multi faith city» The 8500 year history of Izmir has witnessed many civilization.

As House Beautiful assured readers in 1953: «You will have a greater chance to be yourself than any people in the history of civilization.»

The odds of our discovering a civilization during that short period in its history lay not be good enough to justify the construction of a system such as Cyclops.

The practice of using parsley as a garnish actually has a long history that can be traced back to the civilization of the ancient Romans.

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That's why most human civilizations throughout world history have based their diet on some starchy staple, such as rice or wheat or corn or potatoes or sweet potatoes.

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Some doctrines of racial supremacy as classically taught in Euro / American institutions The history of checkers goes back to the dawn of civilization.

Generally, during much of recorded history of humans in civilization, and into the Middle Ages in Europe, weddings were seen as business arrangements

That is the point of the film: this is meant to be an overview of the history of the Internet and a buffet of tidbits about how interconnected life has changed us as individuals and humanity as a civilization.

He does an amazing chameleonic transformation as Winston Churchill, depicting a moment of history in which Churchill was almost single - handedly fighting to save Western civilization from Nazi barbarism.

Explore the planetary ruins and encounter other surviving factions that have each evolved in their own way, as you unravel the history of a shattered civilization.

This is different from the usual Third World discourse, and it's certainly different from the history of colonization, in which the primacy of Africa as a hub of civilization, rather than as merely a victim of it, is often erased.

In a hundred years, historians will probably divide modern civilization into pre-HTML and post-HTML eras in the same way we called the time before we invented writing pre-history, and history as the time after writing; the gift that civilized us.

We should not leave it up to the students to accidentally stumble upon connections across disciplines, as my eighth - grade history student did when she realized that two of her teachers were independently teaching her about the Mayan civilization.

The Big History shows that civilizations flourished in favorable areas for agriculture and trade, such as river basins and coastal areas.

We dialogued about the role of current technological revolutions as greatest transition in human history, with the creation of an emergent planetary civilization.

As a collaborative 6th grade teaching team, we decide on the unit of study, such a the U.S. Election, National History Day or an ancient civilization.

The Social Studies curriculum and instruction includes an in - depth look at the geography, culture, and history of the Eastern Hemisphere; as well as the essential ancient civilizations.

Studies of a particular civilization will include categories such as geography, history, culture, demographics, education, arts and economics.

Where some see an end to history and others a clash of civilizations, Mead sees the current conflicts in the Middle East as the latest challenge to the liberal, capitalist, and democratic world system that the Anglo - Americans are trying to build.

However, with eBooks it is even easier because vast majorities of eBooks in every country in the worlds marketing lists of books are given away free and it just doesn't fit in models of limited distribution, as have been the de rigueur rules of civilizations, all the way back to the dawn of our history.