Maurice Elias, director of the Social - Emotional Learning Lab at Rutgers University, eloquently reminds us: «Kindness can be taught, and it is a defining aspect
of civilized human life.
Agreeing to follow the rules
of civilized human behavior is the very first step, Questions.
Maurice Elias, director of the Social - Emotional Learning Lab at Rutgers University, eloquently reminds us: «Kindness can be taught, and it is a defining aspect
of civilized human life.
It can be smothered under the weight of poverty, and it can be derailed by victimization later in life... Kindness can be taught, and it is a defining aspect
of civilized human life.
It is a defining aspect
of civilized human life.
At the end of the day, all movies about the apocalypse show essentially the same thing — the collapse of social order, the unmasking
of the civilized human.
Your kind of garbage pseudoscience is exactly why people keep up with the pro-agriculture apologetics in the face of all the damage agriculture has done over the course
of civilized human history in the past 10,000 years.
Not exact matches
With no concept
of how
civilized human society behaves in the developed world, they bring their crass ignorance to the party and ruin it for all the other tranquillity - seeking customers who've parted with the same chunk
of change that they have.
Lots
of gay people remain decent,
civilized human beings, despite their practicing homosexuality.
You are correct, this world is better off with Religeon because God knows that the average
human is not capable
of standing on it's own two feet and needs a bit
of a cruch in order to act even halfway
civilized.
Because if you ever truly read the Bible, there are passages that actually condone slavery, however as a
civilized society, most
of us with an endearment to our fellow
human being decide that slavery is wrong, regardless or religious endorsement
of any kind.
Its value lies largely in enabling us to see how the whole history
of revelation with which the Bible is concerned is rooted in the good red earth
of our common humanity; in primitive, elemental
human affections and passions, the groundwork still
of all our life, however sophisticated and
civilized we have become.
the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became
civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose
of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment
of many religions by
humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times
of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.
Unfortunately, the very development
of human compassion which serves to mark the Europeans as more
civilized also works against the principle
of survival
of the fittest.
Yet once granted that a genuine form
of the mythical vision remains a possibility for
civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation
of the
human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.
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.»
Given the right conditions for growth, people
of any shade
of skin, any religion, or any nationality can develop into capable, cultivated, and
civilized human beings.
The blood - and - guts tales told by the ancestors
of today's journalists gradually evolved into more
civilized literary forms, to provide more complex characterizations, to describe more universal
human experiences, to explore more sophisticated levels
of conflict.
In the mid-sixties I opposed a unilinear view
of human progress, but I continued to trace in the history
of religions a progress from primitive, through archaic,
civilized, and axial forms.
The same could be said for personal existence and, indeed, for axial existence in general, or
of civilized existence, or, before that,
of human existence as such.
Cobb's analysis
of the work
of Christ is original, indeed astonishing.147 It includes a psycho - ontological comparison
of the evolved structures
of human existence — primitive,
civilized and axial, and a differentiation
of the basic forms
of axial existence — Indian, Greek, Hebrew, and Christian.
The purpose
of the economy, according to Keynes, is to control the material basis
of a
civilized society, enabling its citizens to explore the higher dimensions
of human existence, to discover their own full potential.
It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream
of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter
of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a
human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the
human rights norms that every
civilized nation agrees on.
Besides, to treat a
civilized society as purely the same as any other type
of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance
of one
of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the
human species, namely, civilization.
Since each
of the constituent
human beings
of a
civilized society is itself more ultimate metaphysically than is the larger social whole, it follows that a
civilized society is really only a relational unity composed
of many individuals related as one socially.
Consequently, a
civilized society is but one further instantiation, among a myriad
of such instances,
of the ultimate creativity which underlies the very process
of the world — it is the realization in
human social experience
of the inherent principle
of «creativity - one - many» at work in all things.
A
civilized society is, in the universal hierarchy
of social order, simply a particular form
of social creativity made uniquely distinctive by
human effort.
To return to a metaphor already employed, a
civilized society is, in effect, an ensemble
of separate but variously interrelated
human constituents and social activities, a «social assemblage»
of many voices acting in consonance with one another.
From its instinctively cooperative origins in
human nature to the self - initiated perfection
of its
civilized enterprises, a
civilized society is, in Whitehead's metaphysical scheme, a community
of social beings who belong to one another essentially.
That is, just as a Society is metaphysically a derivative type
of existent inasmuch as its constituent actual entities are ontologically ultimate, so in an equivalent fashion, a
civilized society is metaphysically secondary inasmuch as
human beings are more real, ontologically speaking, than is the larger
civilized society.
And with situations like this it is public whether the families want it to be or not and most
of the people who hear this kind
of thing are saddened and mourn the loss
of the victims as well — or at least
civilized human beings do.
It is a one constituted by the immanent and mutually satisfying relationships
of unique
human beings living together socially, working in concert to attain the
civilized aims
of Truth, Beauty, Art, Adventure, and Peace.
In the process
of humanization, on the other hand, the evolution takes place within the context
of the historical, from an uncivilized, impersonal, inhuman historical situation, for example, to a
civilized, interpersonal and more
human one.
In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples
of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly
civilized than all
of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith
of the majority
of the peoples
of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in
human affairs than did Christianity.
For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence
of the ideal
of a
civilized politics, a politics
of civil conversation,
of noncoercion,
of the consent
of the governed,
of pluralism,
of religious liberty,
of respect for the inalienable dignity
of every
human person,
of voluntary cooperation in pursuit
of the common good, and
of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies
of sinful men and women.
Such a program has as its ultimate consequence a lessening
of interest in
human reproduction and thus a rending
of the intergenerational bond that is the essence
of civilized society.
This type
of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic
of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence
of human experience as shared by
civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings
of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form
of argumentation.
Deep ecologists have pressed the question
of why
civilized human beings, and especially those in the modern West, have become so alienated from nature.
Consequently, political leaders and military men continue to advocate these new weapons
of mass destruction without regard to their incompatibility with the international law
of human rights, let alone the norms
of civilized life on this planet.
Literal
human ownership
of other
human beings in the form
of slavery used to be widely accepted and practiced in the
civilized world.
Through query
human individuals become
civilized, that is, they become capable
of producing systematically and inventively.
In the view
of the Barnesville (Georgia) Herald - Gazette, for example, those who have been condemned to die are «
human waste,» and thus «executing them should come as easily to a
civilized society as flushing the toilet.»
Even
civilized peoples ask and answer questions about the meaning
of human life, the reality
of their existence, the nature
of the world and the calamities they undergo.
From our mention
of the Roman Empire we must immediately go on to note that the Roman domains included only a fraction
of civilized mankind and an even smaller proportion
of the
human race outside the «higher» cultures.
He naturally loses, therefore, the habit
of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a
human creature to become... In every improved and
civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body
of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth
of Nations Vol.
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.
But in our view conservation goes far deeper than that; it means to the
civilized land what fitness means to the educated body, and in essence what the idea
of sport itself means to the
human spirit: a wholeness
of mind and body.
The findings add to evidence that
humans — despite the comforts
of our
civilized world — still respond to the geophysical rhythms
of the moon, driven by a circalunar clock.
«What has been the fate
of so many
human beings, so long cut off from all intercourse with the more
civilized world?»
Ultimately, Falk and Hildebolt found that people living in small - scale societies are not inherently more violent that those living in «
civilized» states, and that war deaths scale similarly with population sizes across all levels
of human society.