Sentences with phrase «on totalitarianism»

The book gave me the language to articulate my own thoughts on totalitarianism.

Congrats, you have just described a a completely irrational and immoral system based on totalitarianism, fear, and lies.

The Great Lie is the new book of essays on totalitarianism edited by my friend Flagg Taylor.

A remarkable exchange of letters ensued between the two men, exploring the continuities and disagreements in their views on totalitarianism.

Not exact matches

To do so, Ukraine has to rely on the experiences of other countries that overcame comparable challenges of totalitarianism, war, and propaganda.

Perhaps the best answer to the charge that she failed to credit Alfred Kazin for his editorial work on The Origins of Totalitarianism is in Kazin's own words.

On a somewhat related matter, Arendt's near - total absence of study of Italian fascism may simply signify a lack of interest in dealing with the exceptional and idiosyncratic features of that system's totalitarianism.

Having known both of these scholars and having written about Talmon at some length, I must point out that Talmon wrote expressly on the French postrevolutionary and restorationist traditions and not about the later period that concerned The Origins of Totalitarianism.

The current sexual totalitarianism may be politically dominant, but it is built on an unstable foundation of emotivism, hedonism, radical voluntarism, and individualism.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

Communism was not a path of atheism based on reason and rationality but rather from an ideology that took its teachings from religious totalitarianism.

Of course, sometimes the totalitarianism state is based on religious power, like in Iran, but it certainly wouldn't tolerate any rival religion holding power, which is what makes the rise of evangelical power here in the US so scary.

As Hannah Arendt points out in The Origins of Totalitarianism, efficiency is so subordinated to control that the totalitarian society can afford to spend 50 to 75 per cent of its energies enforcing control of one sort or another on its citizens.

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

At the same time it rebuked the pastors for opposing not Nazi totalitarianism in tow but only its encroachments on organized religion; they were making a truly heroic stand, but «the cause which they champion is not the fully Christian ideal» (February 7, 1934).

Her most basic works are Origins of Totalitarianism (1951, updated in 1958), The Human Condition (1958), and On Revolution (1963).

on ideology and totalitarianism, which, in fact, I have never taught....

Totalitarianism, however, builds on a combination of isolation and loneliness.

for example, that the dignity of all persons ought to be respected, that tolerance is a virtue and discrimination is abhorrent, that peaceful resolution of conflicts is superior to violence, that generally truth - telling is superior to lying, that democratic government is morally superior to totalitarianism and authoritarianism, that one ought to give a day's work for a day's pay, that saving for one's own and one's country's future is better than squandering one's income and relying on others to attend to one's future needs.

It is both the seedhed of totalitarianism and an end result, tyranny also builds on isolation.

At this point, Tocqueville needed to be complemented by a greater emphasis on the human person as revealed in the crucible of totalitarianism.

Conservatives, for their part, suggest that the radicals» emphasis on justice rather than freedom conceals Marxist sympathies or at least a culpable naïveté about the evils of communist totalitarianism.

The totalitarianism of the Communist sought to realize this philosophical promise through an unprecedented assault on the traditional contents of life.

Wounded as it has been by the absolutist claims of 20th - century totalitarianism, contemporary consensus demotes truth — on the one hand to something purely subjective (signifying fidelity solely to one's own sentiments and often offending against the principle of non-contradiction), on the other to the merely convenient (namely, to «what works»).

One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people's revolution that had begun eight months earlier, setting in motion modernity's first experiment in totalitarianism.

Christianity, on the other hand, to the extent that it is so, is a totalitarianism of the moral subject.

But the Russian experience reminds us that totalitarianism can come on stage from the left wing as well.

From Antiquity to the Renaissance, to the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism, how does the memory of these «mnemonic signifiers» impact on the decisions taken today, and how have historical experiences shared between European countries shaped their politics?

Dismissing Christian pacifism as useless in the face of totalitarianism, he preferred moral action with muscle (the latter to be used prudently) and even sanctioned the limited use of nuclear weapons, to the dismay of some on the left.

Lear's is a concrete court of 20th - century totalitarianism — a high - Stalinist aesthetic — with the withering old dictator losing his iron grip not only on the regime, but also his senses.

The odd peripheral items on screen - leaflets for the 2003 Stop the War demo, or the main protagonist's faded London 2012 sweater - contribute to making this one of the most innately credible depiction of Britain under totalitarianism ever seen on screen.

Speaking of totalitarianism... Pravda is on fine form tonight.

«His (IGP)'s refusal to honour the invitation is a deliberate assault on Nigeria's democracy; it is a willful denigration of the National Assembly and a recourse to totalitarianism,» the party said in a statement signed by Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary.

Wolf goes on to make a persuasive case that America came close to totalitarianism under the Bush / Cheney regime.

Though it certainly preaches its case continuously, is talky, and on retrospect seems dated in parts, but its episodic description of stranded German U-boat crewmen and their violent foray into Canada is filled with chilling moments that intercuts with an invigorating ongoing debate on freedom versus totalitarianism.

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

For our part, starting from the site of the airlift that sustained the city through the eleven - month blockade of 1948 and 1949, we drove a 26 - kilometer (16 - mile) loop over major streets, passing a remnant of the old Wall along the way and reflecting with admiration on our forebears» defiance of Soviet totalitarianism.

Terry Gross interviews the author on Fresh Air, saying «The theme that unites [the two leaders] is standing up against totalitarianism, Hitler and fascism, Stalin and communism.

A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism — totalitarianism and freedom — that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high - risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity.

His company built the technical platform for 2.2 billion morons to create and continously update with more data their own personal profile without fully understanding the consequences, to be datamined for profit and on the side it also serves as the foundation of the most perfect totalitarianism in history.

Based on their childhood experiences in the communist - ruled nation of Romania the developers have managed to create a dystopian world that draws from their own memories of a country that only abandoned communist totalitarianism in 1989.

Based on three main political systems (democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism), Realpolitiks allows you to extend the influence of your country through various means, all in order to win the race for global domination.

The original novel was a fairly direct critique on the effect of the 1917 Russian revolution and the major figures involved, and the game will go the same route with story - heavy farm management gameplay — like Harvest Moon if it were about the dangers of totalitarianism.

The exhibition focuses on the artistic landscape in a post-World War II Germany, examining «the role of the creative individual living under totalitarianism and in its wake.»

These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns against slavery in the 19th century and against totalitarianism in the 20th century.

Doesn't matter whether it is religious totalitarianism, or Communist «some animals more equal than others» or the Fascist boot stamping on a human face for eternity.

The Common Purpose organization which indoctrinated Cameron, Prescott and others in the UK government, also probably Rudd and Gillard, is based on Fabianism, a precursor of Marxism which is evolving to a version of totalitarianism, a hybrid of communism and Mussolini's fascism.

totalitarianism, wicked as it is, had no impact on «the people's» choice like WUWT killing the hit count.

One of the points I have made before on various occasions is that fundamentally totalitarianism isn't really political — at least not in the sense that people mean the term «political.»

Law publishing causes few deaths, helps professional advisers to perform valuable work and is generally on the positive side of the balance between democracy and totalitarianism.