Sentences with phrase «utilitarian individualism»

One result of television «s influence is that, within the religious community itself, the balance of authority is moving away from those denominations which emphasize the common welfare, toward religious groups that are distinctly privatistic and oriented toward utilitarian individualism.

If such symbols and practices become mere techniques for «self - realization» then once again we see utilitarian individualism reborn from its own ashes.

Perhaps only a major shift in the established biblical religions, a shift away from their uneasy alliance with utilitarian individualism and toward a profound reappropriation of their own religious roots and an openness to the needs of the contemporary world, would provide the mass base for a successful effort to establish the revolutionary alternative.

The central value for utilitarian individualism was a term that could also be used to obscure the gap between the utilitarian and the biblical traditions, since it is a central biblical term as well.

There was a turn away not only from utilitarian individualism but from the whole apparatus of industrial society.

The utilitarian individualism that is latent in all the counter-cultural successor movements, political and religious, makes this a real possibility.

The increasing dominance of utilitarian individualism expressed not only in the corruption of religion but also in the rising prestige of science, technology and bureaucratic organization.

While utilitarian individualism had no interest in society as an end in itself, it was certainly not unaware of the importance of society.

The deepest cause, no matter what the particular factors contributed to the actual timing, was in my opinion, the inability of utilitarian individualism to provide a meaningful pattern of personal and social existence, especially when its alliance with biblical religion began to sag because biblical religion itself had been gutted in the process.

Utilitarian individualism, with less biblical restraint or facade than ever before, would continue as the dominant ideology.

The interpretations of reality in America that had been most successful in providing meaning and generating loyalty up until the 60's were biblical religion and utilitarian individualism.

Utilitarian individualism had perhaps never before been so divested of its ideological and religious façade, never before recognized in all its naked destructiveness.

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To characterize Wiltshire as Olympus is to resist the prevailing ethos of bureaucratic individualism that denies binding myth, indeed any binding force other than utilitarian contracts.