For those who have not played the game, it casts the player as a journalist inside a dark, atmospheric asylum full
of subhuman psychopaths.
This ability also enables human beings to act on the basis of a much broader scope of concern for others than is possible in the case
of subhuman creatures.
Sense perception, which we share with
some of the subhuman species, is itself evidence of this increased capacity for abstraction.
Whitehead's discussion
of subhuman actual entities follows from the principles discussed above, viz., that there is only one genus of actual entities, that one's present experience constitutes the standard for defining actuality, and that subhuman actualities can be conceived in terms of the primary elements in human experience.
Finally, the doctrine that the regions that constitute the standpoint of actual occasions of human experience include
those of subhuman occasions in the brain has several specific advantages.
Since the human developed out
of the subhuman, and since this process of development was a continuous one, it is essential to understand what man has in common with other animals, as well as to describe the threshold that marked his appearance as something genuinely and decisively new.
The purpose of this chapter is to describe what distinguishes the structure of human existence in general from the structure
of subhuman animal existence in general.
The philosophy of organism of Process and Reality is an ambitious attempt to extend descriptions of human experiencing that we give with such terms as «sensation», «perception», «sensory image», and «judgment» to the experiencing
of subhuman organisms.
Our bodily cells are only a tiny fraction
of the subhuman individuals in existence; also each of us is but one of countless individuals on our own or perhaps higher levels (recall the billions of possibly inhabited planets that astronomers believe exist).
If he talks about the event character (1 / 10th of a second in length and all that) of the self, it is because he thinks that is what analysis of self - consciousness itself discloses and not because he means to construct the self out
of subhuman individuals or organisms (Shalom's «event - cells»).
He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger,
of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»
The universe achieves its happiness by reason of coordination into societies
of subhuman societies that contribute to human communication that contributes to happiness.
Included in these (at least on the whole) are the sustaining relations of human existence to the human body and, through it, to the rest
of the subhuman world.
If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance
of subhuman existence as such.
The existence
of subhumans, pranksters and those unnamed literati who slice and dice with gleeful abandon is something we'll all just have to learn to acknowledge, position ourselves for and then, go forward with the sun glinting off the shine of our personal armor.
Not exact matches
You have a brain
of your own to realize that condemning someone as a
subhuman based on something so trivial as their sexual preference is wrong and immoral.
«We must never forget that the evil comes not from the actions
of «
subhuman vermin» but from the heart
of a fallen, sacred yet degraded, human being,» I wrote.
However, it took a lot people thinking
of Jews as
subhuman or, in your term «roaches» for the evil ones to get away with it.
One could argue that that distinction was based on a Germanic assessment
of Celtic people, and in fact, uncomfortably close to the Nazi view that Slavic people were
subhuman, despite their blond hair and blue eyes.
Thus, even though Nazi anti-Semitism was essential to the party's whole project from the very start, the desensitization to the lives
of the Jews made manifest in the Final Solution was preceded by desensitization to the lives
of those far easier to categorize as
subhuman (Untermenschen)-- the mentally retarded and the psychotic.
Just because you are white or inbred with each other doesn't make the rest
of the world
subhuman.
Consequently, a Whiteheadian political theory will require the measure
of attention to
subhuman existence that is consistent with these contributions.
I should stress that the aesthetic character
of reality justifies the sacrifice
of nature (i.e.,
subhuman existence) for happiness only when this maximizes happiness.
Given the distinctiveness
of human existence and the aesthetic character
of reality, it follows that greater beauty is served insofar as
subhuman existence is so ordered as to maximize the possibilities
of happiness.
Human action is discussed in terms
of the relations
of human individuals to other human individuals and to
subhuman aggregates or societies
of occasions.
I'm writing a fictional book that revolves around a
subhuman species
of both Angels and Demons.
«Whatever insults human dignity, such as
subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling
of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others
of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»
They are reduced to
subhuman levels
of life.
but regardless, in your example blacks have been misrepresented as
subhuman monkeys and oppressed and enslaved because
of this misrepresentation for hundreds
of year so they have a legit grievance (Saudi Arabia banned slavery only in the 1970s)-- no one is misrepresenting Mohammad as someone he was not and the Mulsims were not enslaved for their beliefs (they actually claim they are Alla's slaves and proud anyways)
None
of us want to admit that African Americans in this country are seen as either superhuman or
subhuman.
Revulsion at acts
of rape and homicide is channeled against this small group
of despised, dispossessed individuals, branded
subhuman and antisocial, therefore unworthy to live.
Some Chevy are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Some Indians are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Some New Orleans Saints NFL players are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Some Whites are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Some Atheist are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Some Pittsburgh Steelers fans are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one
subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans — thus confirming the very biblical concept
of all humans having a common ancestor.
Some Christians are some
of the most cold - blooded
subhumans you will ever meet.
Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one
subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans - thus confirming the very biblical concept
of all humans having a common ancestor.
The sheep are in the image not for their
subhuman qualities but on the basis
of their need.
10:31)-- a graphic way
of affirming the worth to God
of man above the total
subhuman world.
Hence, the evidence that human beings evolved from
subhuman forms
of animal life was strongly resisted.
Of course, one can extend the free - will defense to the subhuman realm, without positing any inherent power of self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohort
Of course, one can extend the free - will defense to the
subhuman realm, without positing any inherent power
of self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohort
of self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohorts.
We must resist the claim
of any government that it represents some mystical «general will
of the people,» thus relegating its opponents to the categories
of subversive,
subhuman or counterrevolutionary.
Whitehead's philosophy
of organism is an attempt to restate the Creek conception by extending features
of human experiencing to
subhuman forms.
These similarities are sufficient to allow the analogical extension
of features
of language to signs interpreted by
subhuman forms
of life, certainly those «higher grade
of organisms, as Whitehead terms them, capable
of learning.
But beyond these and other elementary structures shared with at least some
subhuman occasions, there is no one structure
of existence to be designated as human.
As all torturers know, it is easier to kill people when you think
of them as
subhuman.
He states, «The line between the human and the
subhuman is crossed in the life
of each one
of us, if by human one means, actually rational» (WM 119).