Buster Brown, thanks for a great comment, I too think that when a homicidal terrorist type is put to death and is no longer a threat, their burial is a good time to show the society they committed their reprehensible acts in is and against, is
indeed is civilized and capable of respecting the dead; all the dead no matter how odious their acts in life might have been.
Not exact matches
But there
's a reason such simple —
indeed,
civilized — approaches don't work anymore: competition.
Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for
civilized or historical man, and that myth itself
is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth
is not only a possibility but
is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.
Some human
beings, especially those less advanced culturally, less
civilized, less sophisticated, less well educated — or, to borrow Hegel's famous metaphor from his Hinrichs - Foreword, more «doglike» — have
indeed been documented as experiencing these feelings.
The same could
be said for personal existence and,
indeed, for axial existence in general, or of
civilized existence, or, before that, of human existence as such.
Cobb's analysis of the work of Christ
is original,
indeed astonishing.147 It includes a psycho - ontological comparison of the evolved structures of human existence — primitive,
civilized and axial, and a differentiation of the basic forms of axial existence — Indian, Greek, Hebrew, and Christian.
Indeed, it would not
be an exaggeration to claim that no other major area of Whitehead's philosophy has received less attention than has his theory of
civilized society.
To some extent of course we have seen this happen, although it would
be a bold man
indeed who would claim that today's «
civilized» world
is free from ignorance, fear and insecurity!
It
is, for instance, entirely possible —
indeed desirable — to follow a
civilized Boulevardier cocktail at the wood - paneled Arnaud's French 75 Bar with a Shark Attack (part drink, part puppet theater) at the chartreuse - laser - lit Tropical Isle, just down Bourbon Street.
Political economists,
indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it
is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly
civilized is that which consumes the greatest weight of soap.
Indeed, the opposition to their use may well
be based in a sophisticated academic grasp of the mechanisms at work and a perfectly understandable desire to promote animal welfare in a
civilized world.
The Germanic law underpinning seems to
be that literally anyone may,
indeed must make an arrest, with the lynch mob
being at the less -
civilized end of the continuum of detaining miscreants, and acting under the authorization of a justice of the peace
being at the more -
civilized end.