Sentences with phrase «not libertinism»
Liberalism is not libertinism.
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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.
The new life in faith is not an assured possession or endowment, which could lead only to libertinism.
Society therefore can not remain indifferent to attacks on monogamy and sexual purity or to encouragement of sexual libertinism.
We led fairly steady lives, and if there were certainly much more libertinism and many more divorces among us than there had been, say, in our parents» generation, they tended still to be very costly and painful and for the most part not light - mindedly undertaken.
If we do not wish to be swept away with modernity's orientation essentialists, then we need to remind the world that our sexual ethics was never really at home in the modern framework anyway, and thus that our forsaking the framework need not lead to postmodern nihilistic libertinism.
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.