Sentences with phrase «which civilized»

The novel's wildly ambitious third segment takes us to Venice in 1592, where a sultan has sent the murderous Crivano to «locate craftsmen adept at fashioning the flawless mirrors for which every civilized land celebrates the isle of Murano, and return with those craftsmen to the Ottoman court.»

It's a modern - day story in which a civilized chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) accidentally finds himself in a dusty, rural town, name of «Dirt.»

On the one hand, Rabbit seems clearly condemned for giving full rein to the «urgent inner whispers» which civilized people must hold tightly in check.

The issue concerning the extent to which a civilized society manifests a certain «identity» of social character — that is, the extent to which it is a self - identical entity — can likewise be resolved by comparison to a Society per se.

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.»

Not exact matches

Separately, Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, is circulating a letter among his colleagues, calling on the A.T.F. to re-evaluate bump stocks, which he said had «no place in civilized society.»

The way I see it — the terrorists who kill are perpetrating a killing which itself is in response to a much larger killing that is being perpetrated by civilized, clean - shaven, so - called progressive westerners like yourself.

They use all sweet word to show compassionate like every other civilized religion, tell us to read their book which is full of contradictions.

Civilized society requires that all men and women have equal rights before the law, but that equality should not extend to equality of condition: that is, society is a great partnership, in which all have equal rights — but not to equal things.

He got the idea from John Gray's novel Park, whose hero is transported to a future in which savage Englishmen live underground while civilized Africans cultivate England's green and pleasant land, celebrating splendid Latin liturgies, studying the perennial philosophy...

They also acknowledged that the Seven Laws of Noah are the foundation upon which civilization stands and that recent weakening of these principles threaten the fabric of civilized society, and that justified preoccupation in educating the Citizens of the United States of America and future generations is needed.

There is some diversity which is unwelcome, and deeply contrary to civilized society.

Unlike him, he was a native of the more civilized northern kingdom, in which they both worked.

Its value lies largely in enabling us to see how the whole history of revelation with which the Bible is concerned is rooted in the good red earth of our common humanity; in primitive, elemental human affections and passions, the groundwork still of all our life, however sophisticated and civilized we have become.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

In a press release, organizers said the event was focused on promoting Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, which encompasses five basic principles that include belief in one God, just and civilized society, unity and democracy.

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.

We are now a civilized and modern society and religion is just a relic of ancient times which which will soon disappear all together like every fad does.

The Liberal theologian of England and America is described with commendation by Dean Inge in the closing chapter of his Types of Christian Saintliness: «His «authority» is the best available judgment of civilized humanity which is the Liberal's Great Church.

Unfortunately, the very development of human compassion which serves to mark the Europeans as more civilized also works against the principle of survival of the fittest.

By offering a standardized curriculum focused on math and science, we can give Wakandans a bedrock upon which they can build a more civilized society.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

This is carried on by modern Muslims in their countries which are not moral but hopefully not our civilized nations.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

insight and foresight, and a sense of the worth of life, in short, that sense of importance which nerves all civilized effort.

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

A new U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower, stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

That which constituted civilized man in his distinction from primitive man did not, in itself, bring with it freedom and individuality.

I which all religious come together and talk in a civilized manner.

Thus we may say that the rise of rational consciousness as an important new factor, which constituted the threshold crossed by civilized man, prepared for the possibility that the seat of existence shift into this consciousness.

(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter of animals in the Book of Leviticus.

Myroslav Marynovych, a vice-rector, quoted King George VI's words to the British people in 1939: «We have been forced into a conflict, for which we are called... to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.»

Dutt explains that this reference to monkeys is only the result of «that contempt for aboriginal races which has marked civilized conquerors in all ages.»

In the generic sense, for Whitehead, the customs of any given civilized society function as the requisite «patterns of relationship,» which not only define but also substantiate the particular order of that society.

On the other hand, it is certainly the case that a civilized society does not exhibit any type of overriding unity greater than that which is manifest by the many individual efforts of its constituents.

There is no centrally consolidated social experience which has dominion over the affairs of society as a whole; and consequently, a civilized society is not a subject as such, either structurally or functionally.

Accordingly, the «order» of a civilized society is «genetically propagated» in terms of commonly accepted and habitually enacted social practices which are passed on from generation to generation, and thus in the most general terms a civilized society is metaphysically constituted as a «social nexus» in a fashion equivalent to that of a Society per se.

For the correspondence between the two to be identical, a civilized society would have to be the exact same kind of entity as some other type of Society, inanimate or personal for example, which of course is not the case.

First, concerning endurance, Whitehead's metaphysics makes it clear that the quality of endurance is something which pertains exclusively to the nature of a socially composite entity, albeit a Society per se or a civilized society.

Assyria on the middle Tigris was already laying the foundations for that imperial sway which presently was to overrun all the civilized world.

The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more people than ever are convinced that world community is essential if civilized life is to continue in the world, the division between two parts of the world has become so deep that we can not now see any way in which it can be overcome.

In an equivalent light, a civilized society is constituted as an enduring, i.e., historically continuous, entity which manifests a definitive set of social relations that transcends the invariable changes in its membership.

Consequently, a civilized society is but one further instantiation, among a myriad of such instances, of the ultimate creativity which underlies the very process of the world — it is the realization in human social experience of the inherent principle of «creativity - one - many» at work in all things.

It is real in the actuality of many, but ideally one insofar as the many individuals of society strive to create a social environment which is truly civilized.

The social unity of a civilized society is certainly more complex and interrelated than that which a mere aggregate of parts would allow.

Thus the status of a civilized society is equivalent to that of a Society per se in that both types of «entities» are composed of constituents which are ontologically superior to the whole of which each of those constituents is a component.

While the quality of endurance does pertain to the society as a whole and not to its constituents per se, nonetheless the reality of that endurance is vested in the many who are solely responsible for bringing about the continuity of social order which ensures the endurance of civilized society.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

That is, a civilized society and a Society per se are equivalent types of entities which only vary to an unusual degree.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.