Sentences with phrase «human societies seems»

Whenever democracy and the rule of law break down human societies seem to revert to feudalism.

Not exact matches

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Looking at society from a modern perspective, there seems to be very little reason not to maximize human happiness, as long as it hurts no one.

Because of the time it takes for a human child to grow up, pair - bonding seems to have been the norm in pre-agricultural societies.

They see so much beauty there, and so much destructiveness from human society, that they seem to desire a world where humanity would vanish and the natural world prosper.

It seems to me that the church has been simply supine before the mores of Western culture, according to which it is indecent to talk about death in polite society P «Theological Perspectives on Aging,» Human Values Institute Conference, May 12 - 14, 1986; published in Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith, and Ethics, November 1986].

Assagioli seems to underestimate the tenacious resistances to growth in us human beings and in society.

A Christian view of time and history which preserves the truth and rejects the illusion in man's vision of history can organize and release human energies today as it did in the days of St. Augustine, and as it did in the bright days of the nineteenth century when the prospect of a reborn society on earth seemed to light the way.

First, it seemed to be bound up with a generally optimistic expectation that human efforts, spearheaded by Christians, would bring into being a better society.

He seems to agree with Bracken that the creativity of individual occasions is primary and is constitutive both of enduring human persons and of societies, but unlike Lakeland his objections to the existing social order of things are melioristic and reformist rather than fundamental and hence revolutionist.

13 It can not mean any existing segment of society, for while some, at least to human eyes, seem nearer the kingdom than others, none is without flaw or fully Christlike.

While I also tend to agree with your stance on the second, it seems to me much less clear - cut; hunting has been an integral part of human survival over the last 100,000 + years and continues to be important today for many traditional societies.

The superficiality of that statement — even its banality — would seem to be obvious, but our purpose here is simply to note that this was the solitary reference to man the «religious animal,» man the worshiper, in the course of six or seven hundred pages of thorough analysis of the human creature in society.

Thus it seems that, according to great economic minds, religion and economics are formative agencies that shape human society and the conduct of human affairs.

It is great because human societies, in the form of nations and of civilizations, have become very powerful and seem to hold in their hands both the blessings and the curses that are to be visited on men.

The best example of the monarchic society seems to be the case of the human personality which controls (albeit only partially) its own bodily cells.

It seems, therefore, perfectly understandable that such a human society be shot through with conflict (as any family would under similar conditions).

The claim to absolute knowledge, the appeal to a form of universalism that should inform civilization that is not based on empirical indexes alone, and the regulation of human sexuality that religious traditions promote make religion seem a threat to modern liberal society.

In the dusty days of Rome when Paul was alive, it must have seemed that the glory of God found little expression in human society.

It did not seem in those societies of human beings that there was a reverence for age or even a devotion to those who were one's physical parents.

However, the idea that if society needs to bring resources to bear it is somehow not a fundamental human right is an argument that seems to make assumptions about being somehow valid more than any demonstration of validity having been made.

The rule of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos seemed secure: the government had insulated itself from civil society groups working on human rights and governance issues, improved its relationships with business - hungry Western states, and deepened its strategic partnership with China.

Without questioning these hypotheses, in Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation, Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin advance a theory so compelling as to seem obvious: «We argue that play is an important form of behaviour that facilitates creativity, and hence innovation, in... the natural world and human society.»

Prof. Gordon Pipa, a senior author of the study, says that since it now seems to be possible that machines can be programmed to make human like moral decisions it is crucial that society engages in an urgent and serious debate, «we need to ask whether autonomous systems should adopt moral judgements, if yes, should they imitate moral behavior by imitating human decisions, should they behave along ethical theories and if so, which ones and critically, if things go wrong who or what is at fault?»

In modern society we are so submerged in words — spoken, written, signed, and texted — that they seem inseparable from human identity.

Sfakianoudis's team has found that PRP also seems to rejuvenate older ovaries, and presented some of their results at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology annual meeting in Helsinki, Finland, this month.

Biologist Ruth Hubbard has long been critical of science and the way it seems to stand outside of society: genetics, she has long insisted, lends itself all too easily to abuses of human rights.

As the role of engineers in society continues to be redefined in the 21st century, it seems clear that there will be increasing opportunities for engineers in the field of human rights.

A trite framing device, in which the travails of these people are cross-cut with the progress of the Voyager satellite through space, seems to suggest that their interactions are emblematic of present day human society in general.

The movie consistently seems to be taking shots at both gang culture and pre-established ideas by society of what it means to be a manly human being.

Attack on Titan, Hajime Isayama's smart, suspenseful, and goddamned terrifying manga about a medieval human society slugging it out with a ravenous, nearly unstoppable race of giants was bound to make the jump to animation sooner or later, and director Tetsuro Araki's adaptation seems perfect.

Faced by a society that seems to strive for beauty and perfection it is possible that core human values such as warmth and soul might easily be lost.

The exhibition reveals him as both artist and human being who was beyond what seemed on the surface to be a post war rebel pushing boundaries for the sake of art, someone who deeply reflected upon society and his time, and desperately yearned for freedom both as an artist and human being, breaking out of historical, artistic, and political constraints, condemning any form of conformism, and refusing to be labelled, branded or marketed.

The artist's agenda and interest seems clear: she wants to discuss politics and socioeconomic structures within society, and alongside that, she wants to discuss human relations.

They looked to ancient Greek literature as well as to «primitive» cultures for a more authentic connection with the underlying forces of nature, especially human nature, than contemporary Western society seemed to provide.

I guess I come down on the values and policy side: we have excellent technology but can't seem to make even the simplest behavioral changes, either as individuals or societies, that would go a long way towards mitigating the many facets of habitat destruction in which we humans are engaged.

Weather Whiplash is a very good way of describing what is going on many times in this World of CLIMATE DESTRUCTION that is being engineered by the ogres that seem like Humans but are NOT, but even so they rule societies everywhere.

It seems like these models leave out something very important: the human factor (e.g., politics, economics, society, culture, etc.).

However, it does seem to me that rationality has always hung on by a thread in human society.

They rarely seem to have considered the fairly obvious point that functioning human society depends on a healthy planet.

As our society becomes ever more complex in its multiple communication modalities, its innovations and creativity, and the development of assistive technologies from robots to AI to self - driving cars, there are still areas of human behavior and practice that seem to be frozen in time.