Sentences with phrase «human cultures depend»

Most human cultures depend on leaders to define, modify and reinforce the behaviors and beliefs of the group.

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The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

If the condemnation of homosexuality depends on the historical and social context, then the morality of the Bible changes with time and culture, and thus is relative to and dependant on human values.

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

«There is a unity that underlies not only all mythologies and rituals but the whole of human culture, and this unity of unities depends upon a single mechanism, continually functioning because perpetually misunderstood the mechanism that assures the community's spontaneous and unanimous outburst of opposition to the surrogate victim» (pp. 299 300).

The legend of the tower of Babel is effectively used to show that whereas language may be man's most distinctive characteristic, his own self - centered designs to make a god of himself result in a complete breakdown in that verbal communication upon which all human culture and healthy society depend.

If Pagel's theory is correct, the success of the human race largely depended on culture, which spawned not just from neural connections within the brain but also from the social connections people made within their communities.

But the whole «everything's like this, except when it isn't» thing is an excellent characterization of the general awfulness of the entire movie: the aliens, walking around in their Eddie Murphy robot spaceship body, either understand humans and Earth culture, or they don't, depending on which would be «funniest» (none of it is actually funny, natch).

Climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems, and the human economies and cultures that depend on them.

Rapidly changing conditions also have repercussions for human populations whose income and culture depend on sea ice.