Sentences with phrase «thought was the civilized»

Religion is a personal choice and should be treated as such in what I thought was the civilized and «modern» world.

as humans our instinct to survive supersedes all others, we like to think we are civilized but we are just animals....

Not exact matches

Personally, I think they're just as crazy to die as the not - so - smart bombs — but at the same time I know they rely on the fact most Americans are too civilized to do what we all would * like * to.

Sameth opines that in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person,» and «the gods were thought of as gender - fluid.»

They are civilized which is why they won't tell you up front just like you won't say you think they are ignorant and feel as if you are immoral to them.

Those who do not think Jesus existed are frequently militant in their views and remarkably adept at countering evidence that to the rest of the civilized world seems compelling and even unanswerable.

Pixley charges Whitehead's thought with three things: (1) that it is «at the very least... open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes;» (2) that «Justice shines by its absence» from Whitehead's list of five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life; and (3) that Whitehead's philosophy contains within it latent counterrevolutionary tendencies.»

In «Thoughts after Lambeth» Eliot wrote, «The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality.

If you honestly think Christianity helped the west become more civilized then you are too brainwashed beyond hope.

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

If some very intelligent civilized beings from somewhere else were to come here can you imagine what they must think.

We ought to think twice before we encourage a risk like that; for, once civilized, China can never be uncivilized again.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

I think proxy baptisms are much more civilized and compassionate than the belief that everyone who doesn't think like you will burn in hell.

And we think we're so much more civilized than the Nazis were.

It's not a perfect system by any means, but I think those who have added those hate crime penalties had their hearts in the right place, that of condemning those who attack someone they don't even know based upon some deep seated prejudice and saying to the world that behavior s unacceptable in civilized societys not a perfect system by any means, but I think those who have added those hate crime penalties had their hearts in the right place, that of condemning those who attack someone they don't even know based upon some deep seated prejudice and saying to the world that behavior s unacceptable in civilized society.

I think this is not a civilized way to discuss by burning something valuable for someone else.

«The useful function of philosophy is to promote the most general systematization of civilized thought.»

But that doesn't mean I think you are bad or that we can't discuss our disagreement in a civilized manner — as I believe we have manage to do at times.

The whole Genesis story is one of the author's envy at how animals seemed to have it all, including s3x whenever they felt like it, and drew the conclusion that we must somehow have decided to become «civilized» and left our paradise of a jungle and now can not have s3x, etc., because we made a bad choice and were driven out by an angry god for presuming to think for ourselves in complex ways.

Good think this is such a Civilized World today, and nothing like that could EVER happen again, RIGHT??

I'd like to think I was a more civilized person than to wish physical violence on anyone but hey, I'm not.

I think it comes down to being civilized.

All over the world, people teach their babies to eliminate away from themselves, but for some reason, «civilized» nations (i.e. 1st world) think it's ok for children to soil themselves.

I am still confused ten months after the election, how a civilized people, capable of thought and comprehension, could get carried away by the numerous unrealistic promises in the face of realistic achievements in the four years that, John Dramani Mahama was the president.

Buster Brown, thanks for a great comment, I too think that when a homicidal terrorist type is put to death and is no longer a threat, their burial is a good time to show the society they committed their reprehensible acts in is and against, is indeed is civilized and capable of respecting the dead; all the dead no matter how odious their acts in life might have been.

«In a civilized, first world society, even the thought of contaminated water supplies or the environmental implications of waste and sewage spilling into the ground are unfathomable.

Nation is a way of feeling, thinking and living, it is a psychological condition of the mind which emphasizes the consciousness of unity due to spiritual or other feelings.while the state emphasizes political unity and objectivity which is a condition of law, the state is an enforceable obligatiory condition inseparable from all civilized ways of living

-LCB- I don't think their is anything better than an afternoon drink on the joggling board -RCB--LCB- Very civilized cocktail hour on the front porch -RCB- Bella thoroughly enjoyed escaping the city and getting to be a country dog for the weekend.

(Etz Limon) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Palestinian and Jews Settle Differences in Court in Middle East Drama When you think of the Middle East, probably the last thing that comes to mind is anybody settling their differences in a civilized manner.

Parents don't think about education this way, but they have less and less say over what happens in the rearing of their children to become what they hope will be civilized human beings.

And as for that new AMG GT C, which comes in both Coupe and Roadster versions (we saw the latter one last year): Think of it as a sort of Corvette Grand Sport to the GT R's Z06 — you get the looks and a lot of the tech from the range - topping model with a slightly more civilized serving of power.

I think it's just fine and civilized enough.

And if this can happen in a «civilized» country like the UK one shudders to think of what may be happening in third world countries.

From onerous copy protection schemes on CDs and DVDs to the near ubiquitous DRM applied to most ebooks to the emerging Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - in - HTML standard, everyone seems to think it's a legitimate way to protect digital media from being stolen and endlessly replicated by nefarious individuals in lawless countries on the fringes of the civilized planet.

Yes, I agree that the restrictions are silly but I don't think they are indicative of a decline in civilized society as you imply here.

Sure, you have to jump back & forth between blogs, but that's part of the fun — and overall, can you think of a more interesting, rewarding & civilized forum to join on an active basis?!

Perhaps the people who report «racist» dogs have similar (unconscious) thoughts of their own; the dog is simply physicalizing an emotion their owners are too civilized or intellectualized to show.

«Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.

Science and civilized thought aren't merely some sort of echo chamber or mass delusion — and if someone were to argue otherwise they would be guilty of self - referential incoherence insofar as the very fabric of their thought is dependent upon that «mass delusion.»

Levi has now entered the blogosphere, which will be quite a change from the relatively civilized world of think tanks and Op - Ed pages.

I think wilderness is, to some extent, a state of mind, and to some extent a necessarily paradoxical state of mind, because it's about a place that exists by your denial of it; the more you as a civilized person are in it, the less wild it is, because you are there.

I remember thinking, «This is the mark of a civilized society.»

I watched a presentation earlier in which a nice young girl was forced to listen to Marc Morano declaim about subprime climate change science, and I thought, that's not the act of somebody desiring a civilized conversation.

It is clear that «civilized» is intended to mean «people who think and act like us.»

I think it was one of the few opportunities we have had to discuss the underlying issues in a civilized manner, as so many other venues online degenerate into hostile shouting - matches.

In his most recent book, «Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking,» philosopher Daniel Dennett explains that arguments can still be civilized discussions if people don't let their egos get in the way.

It's great to think that two people who were once in love should be able to work out the details of their divorce like civilized humans.