Sentences with phrase «of social intercourse»

The density of population necessary to enable mankind to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of cooperation and of social intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries, been attained.

But even from the director of The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, and Silence, this film stands out for its grace and nuance in its portrait of social intercourse as formal ritual.

«Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse,» Kalervo Oberg, the Canadian anthropologist who first coined the term almost a half - century ago, once said in a talk.

And that is why the conservative, pre - or post-modern, is so solicitous of them, for he / she knows that civility is what keeps the wheels of social intercourse rolling.

Not exact matches

The next social study should determine if this attitude is found primarily in people who have had sexual intercourse outside of marriage and / or who are practicing contraception» two practices that deny the purpose of sexual intercourse, favoring selfishness over the perfect love that makes sacrifices in marriage a joy.

When the post-modernist argues that justice is a game we play; a set of rules two or more people agree upon as the frame within which to carry on their social intercourse (see, for instance, JG), the discussion shifts from a celebration of various uniqueness to the difficult question of how they interact.

Can you imagine a world in which the definition of every object or point of discussion had to be clarified before moving forward with social intercourse?

Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for humans.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

The factor in human social experience which Whitehead identifies as responsible for generating this correlative kind of «continuity» is routine, namely, the repetitive activity of daily social intercourse.

Today some Christians argue that the development of contraceptives makes even the social prohibition against extramarital intercourse passé — which is to say, they are prepared to extend to women the privileges which the Old Testament freely accords to men.

This being the case, the only appropriate social response is divorce or the legitimation of extra-marital sexual intercourse.

«Since the social bond of marriage was instituted from the beginning in such a way that without sexual intercourse marriages would not contain the symbol of the union of Christ and the Church, there is no doubt that a woman whom we learn to have been without the nuptial mystery does not pertain to marriage.»

Like humility and good will in social intercourse — better, like profound love of God and genuine love of neighbor — adequate logical methods in philosophy have scarcely ever been tried.

At this point Whitehead produces his oft - cited statement about empirical support «both from the evidence for peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» (PR 469).

Finally, by means of past experiences and unconscious memories «the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» to which Whitehead also appeals is explicable without reference to unmediated feelings.

There is a kind of social life between this feudal lord, the self, and others; there is intercourse, but the spirit of the castle regulates everything.

Data from the University of Chicago's National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP), presented in the August 23, 2007, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that many men and women remain sexually active — participating in vaginal intercourse, oral sex and masturbation — well into their 70s and 80s.

A research published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reveals that women are generally attracted to men whose have faces that reveal their inclination for taking care, combined with their desire for sexual intercourse.

Swinging: This alternative dating can be identified as a way of leisurely social and intimate intercourse between agreeing adult personals whereby associate changing is appropriate.

«In man, social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.

Trade shows are great watering holes of business / social intercourse.

In it, he discusses social intercourse under the metaphor of actors performing on a stage.