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Research now demonstrates that the continued functioning of the Earth system as it has supported the well - being of human civilization in recent centuries is at risk.

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Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

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.

Not so with Belloc, who was far from alone among historians of his generation who understood the significance of race and blood in the episodes of the human past and how important these factors were in the creation of societies and civilizations.

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«In order to understand stock performance in the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of human civilizatioIn order to understand stock performance in the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of human civilizatioin the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of human civilization.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

It is believed that the Mayas upset the balance between humans and nature, although the fall of their civilization probably corresponded to «a network of interaction in which any difficulty could have had repercussions on the whole» (Fonseca Zamora, 505).

The future of human civilization is in becoming more truly loving and «human» in the sense in which Jesus Christ has revealed us to ourselves.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

He argued that the phenomenon of globalization is bringing new pressures of such magnitude that they could easily result in disastrous human conflicts, and that a global war of civilizations can be avoided only if world leaders accept the multi-civilizational character of global politics, and learn to co-operate.

But it recognized Christ solely in terms of communion and this is why no other art in any other civilization ever caused the sacred to embody so much of the human and so fully expressed the sacred through the human.2

It is true that every great discovery in human civilization is made in particular circumstances and because of a favorable combination of circumstances.

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.

The belief that man possesses a soul, or some kind of spiritual entity that survives death, is itself an almost universal phenomenon in primitive human culture and it has led to different kinds of development in more mature human civilizations.

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.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

Where in Genesis does it tell who created the parallel civilization of Nod where the first human baby created by God (who killed the second human baby) went?

Or maybe in the 10,000 + years of human civilization that predates Judeo - Christian thought.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

From belief in idealism or confidence in material progress to the questioning of pervasive ideologies of conflict, from militarism to pacifism, from empire to anticolonialism, or from multiculturalism to the supposed clash of civilizations, the Crusades have appeared as witnesses for all parties in some cosmic lawsuit with human nature in the dock.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Many thousands of years ago, ALL people were pagans, do human civilization naturally has pagan echoes mixed in with more recent celebrations.

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic spherIn the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic spherin the cultic sphere.

Only the Jewish and Christian God made human beings free, halts the power of Caesar at the boundaries of the human soul, and has commissioned human beings to build civilizations worthy of the liberty He has endowed in them.

It is the process of reproducing high civilization in human personality.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

It also made possible new adventures of the human spirit, for it was like a great reservoir into which the currents of ancient civilization flowed, and out of which rose all the streams of later history in the western world.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

Only slowly did the scientific approach of questioning and testing win wider acceptance, and in doing so it set in motion the greatest revolution in human civilization that there has ever been.

Prior to the rise of the great civilizations of antiquity, from the fourth millennium before Christ on, rationality played a minor role in human life.

He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization.

The divine aim to call forth civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe in ways transparent to the ways of God.

The view that history is the encompassing horizon can be combined with a view of human existence which does not center in the city or even civilization.

That theism has existed in some form since the earliest human civilizations, it appears evident that a concept of God has been a necessary part our philosophical understanding of the world and our relationships to it.

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.

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

But it has become plain (in particular since the last war) that however urgent may be the planetary pressures driving us to unite, they can not operate effectively in the long run except under certain psychic conditions, some of which arise out of the human neo-mystique to be discussed in the next paragraph, but the rest of which merely recall and re-express, with a precise biological foundation, the broad lines of the empirical and traditional Ethics which has been evolved in some ten millennia of civilization.

One of the paradoxes attaching to the human species, a cause of some bitterness among biologists, is that every man comes into the world as defenseless, and as incapable of finding his way single - handed in our civilization, as the new - born Sinanthropus a hundred thousand years ago.

There you have it: the elders offering final counsel to the successor generation, the beneficiaries of the greatest educational system in the world, the bearers of civilization's legacy across new frontiers of human aspiration and achievement.

Civilization has repressed the murderous raw emotions of human life, but they are still present in every one of us, for they are part of our humanity.

I take it very seriously too: as one of the most dangerous threats to human civilization in existence, behind the Koran and, perhaps, Mein Kampf.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization than the sage of Tegel.

Now, of course there are good people in the world, and there were good ones in the days of old as well, but as a civilization we have not shown the peace for which this word «civil» is suppose to stand for, maybe for some, but not to all as what YHWH wants for us as a human race.

Who cares if the Roman Empire was indeed the «pinnacle of civilization» at that time, there were other humans living in other regions on every continent.

Arbitrary and unpredictable «stop - gap» intervention on the part of God would destroy the continuity which is needed in science, technology, and human cooperation in civilization.

Both play a stupendous role in the spirituality of humans as well as in the structure of civilizations.

He identified an almost rhythmic repetition of rise and fall in human civilizations, and analyzed the factors contributing to it.

To proclaim certain moral norms to be universal — whether because they are rooted in the psychological predispositions of the human person, the anthropological constitution of all human civilizations, or the social contract of a human community — means that these norms are not controversial and will not be contested.