Sentences with phrase «of civilizational»

He is equally scornful of the «dark green» eco neosurvivalists who rejoice at the idea of civilizational collapse, and their cohorts who proclaim (as I have done) that it is already, realistically, too late to hope that anything we could do will be enough or in time.

(Fwiw, I define myself as more of a «lukewarmer» since I see reasons to be concerned about warming and climate issues, but I think the imminence and magnitude of any civilizational»em ergency» are being exaggerated in many quarters — I'm more of a «policy skeptic» about the steps being proposed, if you care).

It might be an eventuality in the event of civilizational collapse; unleash all the Apocalyptic horsemen and the global population could come down really fast.

Whatever cloud of civilizational angst hovers over us, she suggests, our lives as sentient, indulgent beings can't help but go on.

Densely packed with painting, sculpture, performance documentation and installation, Picard isolates these works from the anxiety of civilizational decline projected onto millennials, focusing intently on the distinct and meditative approaches each artist takes in constructing a cosmos of their own.

In this case, the enduring refugee crisis prompts precisely the sort of civilizational clash that Huntington foresaw: lands, resources, and the loyalties of people are all likely to be violently competed for as one group appears to be threatened.

Piety is further structured by the policy it adopts regarding its relation to its host society: Will piety «resist the social and cultural patterns of its civilizational environment» or will it «recognize structures in the social and cultural environment with which it can work...?»

They're signs of a civilizational crisis.

According to Dreher, «The key thing to notice here is that the original Benedictines understood that the process of civilizational decay was, in the short run, irreversible, and that therefore the only reasonable thing to do was to make a strategic retreat behind defensible borders.»

Some argue, and I would not disagree, that they run more than 1,300 years into the past, and that what confronts us today is the contemporary expression of a civilizational contest that has ebbed and flowed for well over a millennium.

That Catholic theology today offers the modern secular world a vision of civilizational unity it no longer seeks.

the intellectual, spiritual, and political fonts of our civilizational story are Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome.

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

In Western Europe, the agitations of 1968 aimed to effect a deep rupture with the past, and if those who took to the Paris barricades failed politically, they succeeded culturally; the disspirited Western Europe that languishes in a crisis of civilizational morale today is a reflection of the exhausted politics of 1968» as Nicolas Sarkozy, Marcello Pera, Giuliano Ferrara, Joseph Ratzinger, and others have recognized.

If the West is to recover from the crisis of civilizational morale in which it has been immolating itself, it is Christ who will help humanize the earthly city through the agency of the City of God, present in an anticipatory way in the counterculture that is the Church.

Not exact matches

Macron further angered a lot of his supporters by suggesting Africa has a «civilizational» problem caused by women having «seven or eight» children.

Thiel stated during the campaign that Trump offered a better hope of peace than Hillary Clinton, but Trump's closest adviser has said he expects to go to war with nuclear - armed China within a decade and envisions a civilizational clash with the entire Muslim world as well.

There is in fact a side of Harry that can inspire and be inspired, that runs on a sense of history and human significance on the civilizational and cosmic scales.

Here are the names of a few civilizational disasters where populations were disarmed to «protect» life; Nazi Germany, Maoist China, Soviet Russia, the killing fields of Pol Pot's Cambodia.

Hindutva's defenders insist that, although reflective of Hindu belief and practice, theirs is in fact a broader «cultural» or «civilizational» ideology and should be viewed alongside other ideologies such as socialism and communism.

This impending civilizational conflict indicates the fact that tribalism is so deeply entrenched in human behavioral patterns that it not only refuses to wither away but, in times of mounting tension in the face of threatening world crises, it is likely to intensify.

Within two and a half centuries, what began as a ragtag gang of nobodies from the civilizational outback had so transformed the Mediterranean world that the most powerful man in that world, the Roman emperor Constantine, joined the winning side.

The members of the American commentariat most attuned to this plague of Euro - childlessness tend to discuss its impacts in terms of the rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and the difficulties so many European states seem to have in assimilating immigrants from a different civilizational orbit.

The civilizational definition also makes possible the acceptance by Judaism of the principles of unity in diversity and continuity in change.

Burckhardt hit all the civilizational high points, tracing the whole flattering arc of human achievement.

That doesn't mean it should be about surrendering any part of its ennobling civilizational mission.

The newspapers that reported on the WCC meeting were also discussing «Islam Hadhari» (roughly translated as «civilizational Islam»), the phrase the government has given to its vision of a modernized faith.

In the West, and most notably in America, the civilizational story is borne by and legitimated by the language of Jerusalem.

On the one hand, I am unable to posit an alternate framework for tolerance and pluralism in the premodern and precolonial heritage of India's civilizational past.

These may or may not be related to the grandiose civilizational patterns of the past, but they may exist in the symbolic universe of Dalits and Adivasis and thus provide an alternate model for thinking and living in the world of difference and variety.

Genuine pluralism is a civilizational achievement: the achievement of what Murray called an «orderly conversation» — a conversation about personal goods and the common good, about the relationship between freedom and moral truth, about the virtues necessary to form the kind of citizens who can live their freedom in such a way as to make the machinery of democracy serve genuinely humanistic ends.

World history is a history of ethnic, national and civilizational interactions and encounters.

This kind of adversarial characterization of relations between states, whether framed in national or civilizational terms, misconstrues cultures and civilizations as insulated, isolated, monolithic entities, undervalues historical cultural sharing, and overemphasizes the conflictual nature of the international system.

In a 2013 conference at the University of Vermont, Ehrlich assessed our chances of avoiding civilizational collapse at only 10 percent.

In this sense, the SDGs of the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations represent an innate opportunity for the emergence of a new biomimetic civilizational paradigm, since it is essentially an authentic Humanifesto: it is characterized by the universal declaration of human reconciliation with the environment.

The artist dissects a variety of tales from laboratory life on the one hand, and on the other, he explores civilizational connections and colonial exploitation methods within the concept of landscape.

Are we realizing that we should all go for a civilizational shift in the direction of protecting this planet from manmade devastation, or are we simply realizing that nature seems to be turning against us and we're screwed?

Are we realizing that we should all go for a civilizational shift in the direction of protecting this planet from manmade devastation.........?»

Thus although I believe strongly in thinking hard about our paleolithic roots as indicators of our mental and civilizational capabilities (see my most recent novel «Shaman») I also think we are changing culturally, and can now think on the scale of centuries, and plan and act accordingly as a civilization.

The abundance of scientific research showing we have pushed nature beyond its limits does not just demand green products and market - based solutions; it demands a new civilizational paradigm, one grounded not in dominance over nature but in respect for natural cycles of renewal — and acutely sensitive to natural limits....

We know which economic indicators to watch for signs of an economic recession, such as declining industrial output, rising unemployment, or falling consumer confidence, but we do not follow a similar set of indicators that signal civilizational collapse.

Given the role of food shortages in earlier civilizational declines, we obviously should watch food price and hunger trends closely.

Entering a New World (pdf) Introduction A Massive Market Failure Environment and Civilization China: Why the Existing Economic Model Will Fail Mounting Stresses, Failing States A Civilizational Tipping Point Plan B — A Plan of Hope Chapter 1 Data (xls)

Climate twitter — the most fun twitter — has recently been reigniting the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope.

Cases of severe civilizational disruption due to «precipitous collapse — often lasting centuries — have been quite common.»