Sentences with phrase «sought emancipation»

Akin to the mysteries was Hermeticism, which sought emancipation of the spirit from matter.

During the twentieth century indigenous peoples have sought emancipation from foreign imperialism, and colored races emancipation from white domination.

To seek emancipation as a minor, you must file a complaint in your local court system.

Not exact matches

On the one hand there is an official and institutional form of Christianity seeking to be faithful to the beliefs and forms of Christendom's past glory, and on the other there is a secular, non-religious society which tends to assume that emancipation from all religious faith is part of the goal of complete secularization.

Again, from investigations, seeking an elective position with the aim of effecting political and socioeconomic change is synonymous with fighting for emancipation from captivity which is never voluntarily given without personal sacrifice / self - denials; as the beneficiaries of the old order will do everything to thwart the moves.

So she seeks the help of Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) to sue her parents for medical emancipation.

While Plato stressed the laborious acquisition of knowledge and understanding as the means to enlightenment, our impatient age has preferred to think of the emancipation to be achieved through education as simply the removal of the chains of illusion (conventional morality and traditional religious worldviews) without the discipline of seeking truth or the confidence that there is truth to be found.

«According to these theorists, a «critical» theory may be distinguished from a «traditional» theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human «emancipation from slavery», acts as a «liberating... influence», and works «to create a world which satisfies the needs and powers» of human beings (Horkheimer 1972, 246).»