Sentences with phrase «large part of human history»

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Where Sartre seeks to recoup humanism through a methodology that allows him to debunk any competing ideology, Solzhenitsyn seeks to recover human integrity by attending to the particulars of history as part of a larger, if hidden, spiritual drama that must be lived to be understood.

The Holocaust was, in largest part, the consequence of ideas about human nature, human rights, the imperatives of history and scientific progress, the character of law, the bonds and obligations of political community.

For the rest, it was much that they recognized so clearly how large a part of the woe that has blackened human history is of human creation.

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

It also contains, however, an intellectual history of moral philosophy, a theory of virtue, and an account of human nature as being part of a larger framework created by a benevolent deity.

Nevertheless, the need for historical language comparison is still vital: «In large parts of the world, like in New Guinea or South America, both the languages and the history of the human populations speaking them still remain crudely understudied,» says List.

Though its plodding pace brings it down in some parts, it is a well crafted story that gives a Human dimension to the defenders of the Alamo, portraying them as people, rather than the larger than life legends that have since permeated history.

The summer - winter changes in insolation are much larger than those due to human - induced greenhouse gas changes; the seasonal change is mainly in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum while the greenhouse gas forcing is in the infrared; the greenhouse gas influence is global while the seasonal changes are opposite in the two hemispheres; and we have a much longer history of observing the seasonal changes, so a more or less correct prediction can be made empirically, without any physical understanding.

Ignoring a well - documented history of natural climate change, ignoring the ill - advised 20th century policy of fire suppression, and ignoring the increased percentage (~ 80 to 90 %) of fires ignited by humans, Climate Central tried to persuade the public that California fires, (as well as all recent fires) are «part of a dire global warming - fueled trend toward larger, more frequent and intense wildfires.»