Sentences with phrase «modern conditions of»

«All life in societies where modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an enormous accumulation of spectacles.

Instead of looking at the productions of the new media from the point of view of the older modes of production we must, on the contrary, analyze the products of the traditional «artistic» media from the standpoint of modern conditions of production.

«The modern condition of excess work, excess pressure, no sleep -; all this disruption -; we can't adapt well to it metabolically.

What we might say is that the modern condition of the person is of a soul longing for its recovery as soul, longing for an escape from the reductionism of person to mere self, to consciousness disoriented from reality.

Only later, in the Middle Miocen epoch, did whales reach the modern condition of having no external vestigial hindlimbs.

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That's half a year with Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents relying on generators, half a year without air conditioning in the tropical climate, half a year where electric pumps can't bring running water into homes, half a year where even the most basic tasks of modern life are made difficult.

The modern project of controlling nature is founded on the belief that technological innovation improves the human condition and should be encouraged rather than controlled.

What could be more comforting to modern consciousness than to discover that «ultimate concern» and «sin» are essential and unavoidable characteristics of the human condition?

Under conditions of the modern welfare - regulatory state, separationism is a powerful engine of secularization.

Reforming or tweeking can not restore something to it's original condition, it has to be actually restored, which is what the Church of Jesus Chritst of Latter - Day Saints claims to be; restored through what one could call as being God - certified or called of God modern - day prophets.

Over the past three decades, the French philosopher Pierre Manent has published a series of works on the destiny of the West and our modern political condition that are both profound and — atypical of Parisian intellectuals — expressed in luminous prose.

More critical analysis is needed to show how the whole direction of modern scientific work serves the interests of the rich and powerful and worsens the condition of the poor and powerless.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

«The revival of Islam,» says Parvez, «would mean the re-establishment of a central authority, a ruler, who would deduce detailed regulations from the Qur» an in accordance with modern needs and conditions and would enforce the collective obedience of the people.»

They say that the Islamic state would be a theocratic state dominated by the Mullahs — the conservative religious leaders — and that the shari`a can not be enforced under modern conditions because the very attempt to enforce it would undermine the economic structure of the state based on modern finance and banking.

The erosion of that common soil, that common culture, is the essence of our modern condition.

When however to the legacy of criticisms ancient and near - modern there is added the firm acceptance of evolutionary philosophies of materialism or idealism contradictory in trend to Christian teaching, then every new difficulty, every fresh confusion of unabsorbed knowledge, every apparent retreat of conscious mind before reflex conditioned action, is taken as a new refutation of traditional Christian belief.

However, to advocate it as a prime essential for all is to speak words that have no ring of realism within the conditions of most modern families, and this fact should be admitted.

But at the same time she must ever look to the present, to the new conditions and the new forms of life introduced into the modern world.»

To a frightening extent, the modern arrogation of the title «theologian» to seminary professors with doctor's degrees, Latin styles, German specialisms, concealed inferiority complexes, and a conviction that they have been «elevated» from the ministry of the local church is now exacerbating the long - standing condition.

He made my first stop a visit to a modern, air - conditioned Buddhist temple where a group of very impressive, well - preserved statues of Buddha from early Japan was on display.

Until the spiritual condition of modern persons is addressed, marriage will continue to be a victim of a larger malaise.

Fundamentalists and their more progressive evangelical descendants have repeatedly adapted successfully to the conditions and opportunities of modern life.

Fundamentalism is, in this regard, very much a product of, and an adaptation to, modern political conditions.

Modern science began, as did ancient Greek science, with the adoption of an ultra-simple and essentially negative notion of causality, the belief that, given the causal conditions, what concretely happens is the only thing that then and there could happen.

Since under modern conditions the actions of all people in key positions of power and influence are thus likely to be known almost immediately by nearly everyone, these people can not make decisions without reference to the reaction of the public.

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

Although some educators still cling to it with fervent tenacity, most regard it as out of keeping with the conditions and needs of modern industrial democracy.

The modern worker divides his life into hours on a treadmill and hours of freedom from the treadmill, and the hours of freedom can not compensate for the others for they are conditioned by them.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

Buber's and Trüb's understanding of guilt as a primal reality sets them in marked contrast to the predominant modern trend toward explaining it away as the product of social and psychological conditioning.

The «central significance of repression and sublimation in Freud's system,» derives from the pathological condition of modern man and is valid in terms of it.

The structure of modern society makes true dialogue difficult, and the tremendous force of social and psychological conditioning often brings society close to that deterministic and organic social structure that many accept as reality.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

Fundamentalism rejects the human freedoms which have opened up in the aftermath of the western Enlightenment, and is committed to combat secular humanism and all other aspects of the modern world which it regards as injurious to the spiritual condition of humankind.

While he... obviously does not lack a uniform grasp of the whole, he does not build it up from abstract terms in the form of our modern scientific systematics, but everywhere in terms of the concrete and real conditions he has to deal with;... nowhere does he present an overview systematically summarized [Luthers Theologie, by Theodosius Harnack]

One of its key tenets is that the modern era reveals something new about the human condition that requires the Church and doctrine to change in fundamental ways.

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All the talk of certain modern schools of theology about the lost condition of man apart from God would have been to the Hebrew thinker just so much crackling of thorns under a pot.

So far as I understand the matter, the conditions of reasonableness in our situation are secular, even if not secularistic, conditions, i.e., they demand the unqualified acceptance both of the method and world - picture of modern science and critical history and of the reality and significance of this world of time and change, which is the context of our lives as secular men.

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

These modern miracles are accomplished not by any suspension or contravention of natural law but by fulfilling the conditions on which it will operate in the direction and way we desire.

Most educated people today, however, though aware that there is much we can not yet explain, are so conditioned by the world view of modern science that they find it hard to accept anything that runs counter to the normal processes of nature.

Lest any one feel that the conditions just mentioned are confined to the university world of discourse, let him look at modern art.

This is the method which consciously ignores the fact of crisis and suggests to the church that it continue in its tested course of the past while resolutely refusing to consider the causes and forces which have produced the modern critical conditions.

Therefore all reflection about the effect of prayer on the spiritual condition of the suppliant, which so pleases the modern man, is lacking here however true in themselves such reflections may be.

He approaches the problem from a purely academic standpoint and asks, How far does the essential message of the gospel confront us --(1) In the framework of a mythical world view conditioned by its environment and therefore irrelevant to the modern world?

Modern ideologies attempt to simplify politics by lifting certain principles - liberty, equality, fraternity - out of their surrounding historical conditions.

Neuhaus» oft «repeated claim that a separation of church and state is a necessary condition for modern societies: is this an absolute necessity, based upon its intrinsic goodness?

One of the conditions of worth of the modern mentality is the drive for clarity and specificity referred to above.