Sentences with phrase «totalitarianism which»

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Brian C. Anderson attributes the new French attention to Aron's «lifelong resistance to the temptation toward totalitarianism and the literary politics that usually attended that temptation,» which is suddenly in style.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

His successor, Pius XII, issued an equally powerful encyclical, Summi Pontifactus (1939), which condemned totalitarianism, and openly challenged Nazi racial theories by defending the unity of the human race.

Rather, they betray the totalitarianism of a false Utopia, warned of by John Paul II, which arises when justice is detached from freedom.

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.

The superman and totalitarianism offer this something more than oneself, and both are characterized by the fact that they do in fact remove all intrinsic value from the individual and make him simply a means to a greater goal in which he can symbiotically participate.

The one point at which totalitarianism made this evident was in cutting the freedom of religion.

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).

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

Witness to the collapse of an empire and the rise and fall of two brutal totalitarianisms, he was at the vortex of world - historical events; in part because of what he had observed, he could never credit the nostrums by which so much of modern opinion is sustained.

Though America blessedly is not threatened by the totalitarianism against which von Hildebrand struggled, it faces its own dangers.

At a higher level we see the sombre threat, still increasing despite the surgical operation of the second World War which was supposed to abate it, of so - called political totalitarianism.

Thanks to the example of this old man grown thin by so many fasts and sacrifices, poised like a flaming target in front of the circle of suffering faces which his fire continues to light and to search out, the spiritual values of man are not defeated by the totalitarianism of nations.

As a rule, totalitarianism endeavors to do away with the individual subject: his thought is replaced by ideology, his speech is replaced by some dialectical variety of Newspeak, his actions are replaced by the automatic development of Progress, History, or class struggle, supervised by the State or the Party» which, thanks to its «hundreds of eyes» (Brecht, Die Massnahme), is supposed to be wiser and more farsighted than any one of us.

In this specific sense, Berlin was a champion of pluralism in an age in which too many other political theorists had cast their lot with monisms of one kind or another — monisms, otherwise known as totalitarianisms, of a most lethal sort.

The most notable example of false community is the very totalitarianism to which the decline of true community leads.

If to all the enormous power that the state has anyway you add the power to run the economy, which is what socialism empirically means, the tendency toward creating some sort of totalitarianism becomes extremely strong.

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

Rejecting that totalitarianism is inherent in his call for equality of opportunity, Dr Swift emphasised the collective nature of the state which has always included an element of compulsion in a variety of areas.

The politicising of every utterance which you are attempting is called Totalitarianism, nothing outside the State, nothing private.

Instead he wrote, in 1946 in «Why I Write» that «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it», which was the argument for justice and liberty.

The real excitement of the movie is seeing just how far they'll take their political parallels — which is pretty much all the way to a grand conspiracy theory linking current US foreign policy with Nazi totalitarianism.

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.

In her essay, Katy Siegel points to the hole in «Avicenna» as the «[m] ost extreme» example of the «element of totalitarianism» in Stella's paintings, which «deliver experiences colored by exhilaration and control.»

Maybe they should return to elite - run totalitarianism regimes, which have suited them so well in the past.

Greenpeace wants to price the poor off the roads, which will be «a good day for totalitarianism.»

Sweden also massively implicated — which figures, as they flirted with totalitarianism for decades.

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.