Sentences with phrase «modern human societies»

«It is important to note that depression is a very complex disease and also defined in the context of modern human societies, so we certainly can't say that our ancestors or Neanderthals were depressed in the modern sense.

Lets start with the story Horizon is set in the near future after modern human society has collapsed for some unknown reason.

In particular, unless there's an accurate model for modern human society — and there isn't — the blind spot in this case is the very agent for change that is being predicted.

Unfortunately, even a «mere» ten degrees extra is devastating for modern human society.

Moreover, no matter how «devastating for modern human society» global warming might be, it's not nearly as «devastating for modern human society» as what will happen if we accept the AGW theory and take action, based on the AGW theory, to STOP global warming.

Not exact matches

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

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.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

We do not explain holistically the mechanisms of the destruction of human integrity in modern society.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

If so, then human minds, created in the image and likeness of God, should be able to understand the world in which we find ourselves; much of the skepticism of modern society needs then to be rethought by Christians.

On numerous occasions the Roman Catholic philosopher Yves Simon spoke of the need in our modern world to maintain both the Augustinian and Thomistic streams of the common tradition in the midst of a society that sees in authority only a sign of human failure.

Any idea of going back to the pattern or world - view of traditional societies either primal or medieval or even early modern is doing violence to the historical nature and social becoming of human beings.

I have changed it slightly to indicate that our goal is to critique both the primal and modern visions of human being and society in the light of each other and in the light of the theological vision of God's purpose for the future of humankind.

The default options of modern anthropocentrism are to interpret human moral experience as the constructions either of the self or society.

The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical cultures had, how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated and frustrated in authoritarian societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

I would therefore hope that future Catholic SRE programmes would develop a three-fold strategy to this important aspect of Christian Education: A vision of human sexuality founded on the teaching of the Church, a means to help children combat the conflicting messages of modern society and a recognition of the need for healing in many of those under their care.

First it requires us to find and describe what Tillich called the «boundary situations,» that is, those points where modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense they are alienated from society and other people, or feel a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and having no worth.2.

While modern society has drastically changed in recent centuries, fundamental human nature and divine revelation are unchanging and never obsolete in anytime or culture.

The novelists, poets, philosophers, and theologians among them have a common complaint: modern society reduces human beings to a cog in the social machine.

Though the problem is so rooted in the nature of both Church and secular society that it is always present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the modern church which is confronted with unusual evidences of misery in the life of human communities and of weakness within itself.

Please forgive me if I take a few moments to explain what I mean by substance philosophy and to show how it has informed so much of modern thinking about human society.

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.

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Above all, though, Paul VI's concern and care for the family is expressed at length in the Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, which notes that «the well - being of the individual person and of human and Christian society is intimately linked with the healthy condition of that community produced by marriage and family».

gjp, so you prefer the myths and best guests of ignorant iron age societies who had about a billionth of the knowledge and understanding of modern humans?

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

In some modern, industrial societies, humans act like spaced feeders.

Extensive research using improved epidemiologic methods and modern laboratory techniques documents diverse and compelling advantages for infants, mothers, families, and society from breastfeeding and use of human milk for infant feeding.1 These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental, psychologic, social, economic, and environmental benefits.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

Modern hunter - gatherer societies typically have territories of 12 to 25 miles in diameter, and researchers believe early human groups had similar ranges.

Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.

Evidence presented in April at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting in Chicago suggests that Neandertal behavior resembled that of early modern humans.

Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.

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

«Although autonomy - establishing behavior is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger,» Allen and colleagues write.

But Sikora's study «shows that modern humans already lived in socially fluid societies well before the origins of agriculture,» says anthropologist Andrea Migliano of University College London.

For this study, an international team of researchers from the University of Tuebingen, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, the University of Cambridge, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Berlin Society of Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, looked at genetic differentiation and population continuity over a 1,300 year timespan, and compared these results to modern populations.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

At first, White was convinced that humans would understand the obvious implications of his ice - core data: The consequences of human - caused climate change «would basically cripple any kind of modern society.»

Furthermore, «because some hunter - gatherer societies obtained most of their dietary energy from wild animal fat and protein does not imply that this is the ideal diet for modern humans, nor does it imply that modern humans have genetic adaptations to such diets.»

Louise Humphrey, an anthropologist and tooth expert at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees, although she says that the early weaning of the Scladina child is «intriguing» because it is more than a year earlier than the nearly 30 months typical of modern human nonindustrial societies.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

The process of digestion is a basic, natural human function; it's what our bodies are designed to do and yet in modern society, hundreds of thousands of people suffer from digestive disorders.

Now, considering that we live in a modern society, the chances are that you've come into contact with some mention of human growth hormone.

In modern society, the toxic load on the average human body is quite high.

However, the phrase «when you go black you never go back» still persists within the modern American society signifying that racism is a human vice that is going to take a little longer than anticipated to eliminate.