Sentences with phrase «understand modern civilization»

In turn, in order to understand modern civilization, we need to look even farther back, at how humans lived before we became «modern and civilized» and what happened to push our species across that threshold.

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If modern civilization stands for all this, and I have understood it to do so, I call it Satanic».

We have begun to understand what Gandhi really meant when he described modern civilization as a «disease».

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

BOOKS ABOUT WHITEHEAD»S THOUGHT Emmet, D. M., Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism, Macmillan, 1932 Johnson, A. M., Whitehead's Theory of Reality, Dover, 1952 Whitehead's Philosophy of Civilization, Dover, 1958 Lowe, Victor, Understanding Whitehead, Johns Hopkins, 1962 Peters, F. H., The Creative Advance, Bethany, 1966 BOOKS ABOUT PROCESS - THEOLOGY Hamilton, P. N., The Living God and the Modern World, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967 Hartshorne, Charles, Man's Vision of God, Harper, 1941 James, Ralph F., The Concrete God, Bobbs - Merrill, 1968 Ogden, Schubert, The Reality of God, S.C.M. Press, 1967 Pittenger, Norman, Process - Thought and Christian Faith, S.C.M. Press, 1968

In addition to elucidating how maize provided a dietary foundation for ancient civilizations like the Maya, such studies can also aid in understanding and improving commercially important lines of modern maize, the researchers say.

As modern civilization advanced, the practice was accepted to varying degrees, with the development of understanding the actions of hormones on the body, known as endocrinology.

I understand the environmentalists; they want to shrink the size and impact on the environment of modern civilization.

In order to understand the role that politics plays in our collective failure to address the predicament described above, we need to examine the nature of modern civilization.

If we are to live on this planet for the long haul without transforming it into what seems like an entirely different planet, we will need to come to the understanding that we can no longer use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for the waste products of modern industrial civilization.