Sentences with phrase «traditional authoritarianism»

As Tocqueville pointed out so clearly, emphasis on individual interest with no ethical or moral restraint so each is «shut up in the solitude of his own heart «13 is the road to a new despotism, perhaps far harsher than traditional authoritarianism.13

No matter how the breakdown of the «modernization» syndrome might occur, Heilbroner envisages a relapse into traditional authoritarianism as the most likely result, providing, that is, that the worst outcome, total destruction of life on the planet, is avoided.

Such a new order would involve, as in the case of traditional authoritarianism, an abrupt shift away from the exclusive dominance of technical reason, but it would not involve the adoption of the reified objective reason either.

If a relapse into traditional authoritarianism is a distinct possibility in America, and I believe it is, we might ask what are the likely candidates for the job of supplying the new orthodoxy.

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Convinced that the traditional Latin Mass was the prime reason for lay passivity, confusion, and clerical authoritarianism, his argument is perhaps more theological than literary.

The authoritarianism, moralism, and legalism of much traditional religion diminishes spiritual awareness by encouraging people to project their own spiritual powers onto deity (thus impoverishing their inner lives), introject self - punishing beliefs that diminish self - other esteem and distort relationships, and retroflex vital assertive and sexual energies, thus blunting their aliveness.

He is still saddled with the traditional image of preaching with its clearly discernible authoritarianism being communicated nonverbally not only in voice and manner but also in the form and movement of his sermon.

Would a political ideology that involved the fascist - style authoritarianism and collectivism but did not rely on the traditionalist concept of nationalism and religion (e.g., was secular) and invented its own definition of collective independently of traditional ethnicity, still be considered fascism?

Chief among them are «traditional» air pollution such as car and truck exhaust and smokestack emissions; destruction of land and water from extracting and transporting fuels; and the militarism, economic inequality and political authoritarianism that is endemic to extractive economies (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Indonesia).