Sentences with word «libertinism»

It staked its identity on resisting the sexual libertinism of the 1960s.
Anarchic libertinism was thus the extremist opposite to that other and no less extremist way of despising the world that Gnostic asceticism was.
He could categorically choose the way of antinomian libertinism (as did the Valentinians), in which case the pneumatic self acted as if it had «a positive injunction to perform every kind of action, with the idea of rendering to nature its own and thereby exhausting its powers.»
It is not hard to see the result, in America and Western civilization generally, as the embattled simplicities of a life - affirming libertinism and a life - denying asceticism complicate all attempts to answer the question whether it is safer to choose abundance than scarcity.
For that is precisely what so much of the spiritually impoverished world of radical secularism and lifestyle libertinism now denies: that there is any «human nature» which public policy and law must respect.
Eberstadt points out that the conventions of modern libertinism lead to a whole host of social and personal disorders, and she has plenty of evidence to back her claim up, but she provides no account of what would truly satisfy.
• Mark this down as exhibit A in the demonstration that there is a very close and comfortable fit between the lifestyle libertinism nearly all progressives endorse and the quest for profit.
The change has produced enormous anxiety, conflict between the generations, and a fear that India will go the way of the West with its high divorce rates, broken families, loss of extended support systems, and commercialized libertinism.
We may be inclining ever more toward a socially acceptable libertinism, but it is structured and defended by a conviction that pleasure is the means to happiness.
@Zack, it seems you are touting libertinism.
It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.
In part - agreement, part - contrast with Phillip Blond's description of the riots as «libertarian», and Maurice Glasman's view of the socially disruptive effects of neoliberalism, I argue that the riots — in a way not unrelated to the MPs» expenses scandal or the daredevil practices of the financial sector — exemplify a particularly corrosive brand of materialistic libertinism.
But however eager he had been to abandon his background, the unrestrained libertinism of his new situation must surely have haunted him with the idea that, perhaps, his life now lacked roots in any valid order.
Kippenberger came of age in the 1970s and embodies the kind of punk rock libertinism of German youth in that era — cosmopolitan, intellectual, disillusioned by radical leftist politics, but disdainful of the burgeoning consumer culture of West Germany.
The founders would look at modern liberaltarianism, which is really thinly disguised libertinism, and shake their heads.
When one party has elevated lifestyle libertinism to the first of constitutional principles (and is prepared to kill unborn children, jettison free speech, and traduce religious freedom in service to hedonism), while the other is prepared to nominate a fantasist who spun grotesque fairy tales about an alleged connection between an opponent's family and Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he closed the deal?
The more recent phase of bachelorhood, sustained by the libertinism of the American sexual revolution, sprang forth with the great wealth showered upon Americans after World War II and was, to an astonishing degree, the creation of two well - published sex zealots, Alfred Kinsey and Hugh Hefner.
Those who charge Dreher with fear - mongering and focusing too much on sex should recall that sexual libertinism, once thought a dangerous vice, has now been elevated to the hallowed status of an indefeasible human right, with little consideration for the negative consequences of so doing.
The new life in faith is not an assured possession or endowment, which could lead only to libertinism.
He suggests how to move beyond legalism and libertinism (chapter 10), how to move beyond sectarianism (chapter 13), and even (this truly would be a miracle!)
Society therefore can not remain indifferent to attacks on monogamy and sexual purity or to encouragement of sexual libertinism.
As for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in Cleveland.
He described the Church as a «little boat of Christian thought» tossed by waves of «extreme» schools of modern thought - Marxism, liberalism, libertinism, collectivism and «radical individualism....
In perfect joy the body and the soul are at one: this precludes both extreme asceticism and libertinism.
I take issue with the implication in your last sentence that the only option other than sexual libertinism is to make sex «sound dirty».
They're basically having to defend a circa - 1950 attitude that birth control equals sexual libertinism, implying that any woman on the pill is a slut on the loose — shouldn't she be keeping that aspirin tight between her knees??? In the process, they're driving female voters into Democratic arms... chastely or otherwise.
The capital of art, culture, music, films, youth, trends and libertinism, has so much to offer!
The careful arrangement of the exhibition evokes the sharpness of the subject; whilst a cocaine binge might be seen as excess or libertinism, the meticulous construction of the exhibition betrays more pedantry than debauchery.
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