Sentences with phrase «more as a civilization»

When people stop worrying about the «after - life» and an invisible guy in the sky, we can advance more as a civilization and reach new heights and maybe even GET ALONG with each other, more people will live their life knowing this is the only life you get.

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, «Lord Business» later moved on to more advanced, empire - building strategy video games, such as Civilization, where he would «lose himself for hours on end.»

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

You're right, but wouldn't it be more beneficial if people focused on helping each other and the advancement of our civilizations as apposed to reading folklore's and choosing to believe that only their religion goes to heaven.

Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnation.

Teilhard relates this movement towards the planetary unity of civilizations with what he describes as the increasing convergence of men in a consciousness which is super-individual and with the passing years more and more super-national; and he has some specifically Christian things to say about that movement and its meaning.

In a combative interview with the BBC, Patten described Benedict as «the greatest intellectual to be pope since Innocent III,» a «world class theologian,» who had a «really important message about the Christian roots of civilization in this country, and in Europe, and the way in which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.»

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»

And More is left, as we all are, with the task of making life and love in the ruins of our civilization.

In seeking for equivalents, I have often thought that the phrase «bourgeois morality» could simply be rendered «middle - class morality,» that «bourgeois society» is close to what has been called by others «a business civilization,» and that the «bourgeois mentality» has many features of what more recently has been identified as the white Anglo - Saxon Protestant (WASP) outlook.

Of course, he perceives our own time as one in which historical roots are not available, but he has generalized this particular situation which he finds in Western civilization into a universal dialectic, or perhaps more properly antagonism, of the past and present.

Indeed, as Samuel Huntington of Harvard has written, the «clash of civilizations» in the new millennium likely means that pluralism will be more pronounced in the future.

(«The Holocaust and what is perceived as the continuing political isolation and vulnerability of the State of Israel are supposed to have taught us,» he says early in the book, «that the Jews have been asked to give far more than they have received from Western Civilization.

The Jewish scriptures tell how Moses communed with God on the top of Mount Sinai, and returned with the tablets of stone on which were inscribed the Ten Commandments, which have served for more than three thou sand years as the basic moral code of the Judeo - Christian civilization.

Here, it seemed, was the quintessence of Western civilization, which we had taken for centuries as our standard of comparison, and suddenly we realized that the new Rome was no more a match for the barbarian than the ancient Rome had been.

«is worthy to be called a religion»; and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so - called «Civilization,» as these things are now organized and admiringly believed in, form the more genuine religions of our time.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how ConstantinianAs he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinianas a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

As celebrants of multiculturalism, the editors may protest that they can not limit themselves to biblical faith, since, after all, it has no higher claim on their attention than that it is the religious connection of more than 90 percent of the population and the religio - moral foundation of Western Civilization.

No one actually takes the Monarchy seriously any more as the «Divine Right of Kings», and maybe it provides a good opportunity for discussion of precisely that wierd and anachronistic notion and the origins of state and civil authority in Western Civilization.

@Kyle, I never suggested that I said that if research had been done in the proper fields, most rational people would question their faith I guess archaeology is bit of a stretch as it is more of a human history based field but there were civilizations more than 6000 years ago

In order to make certain that such statements as these should have more than ephemeral significance, it was proposed that the International Missionary Council should establish, as a part of its organization, a «bureau of social and economic research and information» on problems arising from the contact between Western civilization and undeveloped countries.

There is nothing more needful at this time than the exploration, by as many minds as possible, of the conditions of the reconstruction of civilization.

Regarded as aspects of civilization in search of Harmony; we have been given many more or less distinct kinds or types of harmony.

When these traditions recede — as they are almost everywhere in the face of globalization — we shall see the re-emergence of the more brutal capacities of the human condition, which have long survived beneath the veneer of civilization.

For him, civilization was the process of humans growing more civilized, the victory of persuasion, not just in the sense of rational arguments but as a manner of living, over brute force.

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

I might add that the official story for colonization was a form of love to natives, as it was stated that the main goal was to bring education and more broadly civilization.

Ergo, Hancock concludes, «at the very least it would mean that some as yet unknown and unidentified people somewhere in the world, had already mastered all the arts and attributes of a high civilization more than twelve thousand years ago in the depths of the last Ice Age and had sent out emissaries around the world to spread the benefits of their knowledge.»

It's hard to disagree, although these civilizations are more Alien than Star Trek, dark and squishy worlds with buildings made from living bodies or stitched together by workers using silk - extruding grubs as sewing machines.

Northern Europe in the Bronze Age was long dismissed as a backwater, overshadowed by more sophisticated civilizations in the Near East and Greece.

For generations, researchers dismissed the Amazon as a cultural desert, a jungle terrain too treacherous to support any civilization more sophisticated than nomadic tribes.

Industrialized civilization relies on coal, oil and natural gas — the stored sunlight collectively known as fossil fuels — for more than 80 percent of the energy that enables everything from driving to reading on a computer screen.

Mellaart saw Çatalhöyük as the ancestor of much more elaborate Bronze Age civilizations, such as Knossos on Crete, and he assumed it too must have been ruled by an elite — perhaps the priests whose shrines he thought he had uncovered.

Infections lurking on the margins of civilization are becoming more likely to cause outbreaks as the climate changes, researchers say.

Spiral galaxies such as the Great Nebula in Andromeda are obvious candidates, but the elliptical galaxies are much older and more highly evolved and could conceivably harbor a large number of extremely advanced civilizations.

As the agents of the Australian Government penetrate into ever more remote mountain valleys, they find these backwaters of antiquity already deeply disturbed by contact with the ideas and artifacts of European civilization.

The researchers note that while there is some discussion as to the dating of the Tula civilization, «it appears that Tula was established during a relatively stable climatic interval and went into decline as climatic conditions became more volatile.»

As a comparison, a Type I civilization has evolved with the technological ability to harness all the energy that reached their planet from their star; a Type II civilization is much more advanced, with the ability of harnessing all of the energy from their star.

Known as «superflares,» the space weather events were thought to be roughly 10 times more powerful than any solar storm that has struck Earth since the advent of modern civilization.

Below is a link with general information about the grass - fed trend and diseases in ancient civilizations, as well as an excerpt from a Plant Positive video which is generally more philosophical but does contain a couple points on health implications of grass - fed meat.

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It is for further exploration of our evolutionary cycle, as we make contact with extraterrestrials who are in all probability more advanced than our civilization is.

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Under the worsening pressure, the family threatens to crack, as Allie appears to become more quixotic in his quest for starting his own brand of civilization.

Now two new featurettes dive into the fascination that Disney himself had with the innovations of the future, and the ideas he had in order to make civilization more efficient, not to mention the narrative in the film as well.

Even as some one who has played Civilization games in the past I was very impressed with how approachable things were in this game, everything just felt far more intuitive then in past games.

Although the story itself isn't much more than a standard chase vehicle, the production is elevated by Gibson's decision to recreate the atmosphere of the Mayan civilization as much as possible, which included very intricate costume designs, make - up, and actors that speak their lines in an actual Mayan dialect, Yucatec Maya.

Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex mythmaking, blessed as it is with a new villain (played with unnerving subtlety by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing human civilization to smithereens.