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Indeed, by failing to channel our savings in ways that create an economy fit to serve a rapidly growing global population within environmental limitations, financial markets are shorting civilization as a whole.
Only then can it be a “faithful mirror of a civilization underlining the fundamental values on which it rests.”
As Franklin D. Roosevelt put it, we must cast down the “money changers” from their “high seats in the temple of our civilization.”
Tribalism has strong appeal in periods of rapid, tumultuous change, as what the political philosopher Karl Popper called the “the strain of civilization” exerts its pressures on society.
Instead, in his defense of the family – or, as he would put it, the sacred union between man and woman – he pointed out how sexual arrangements outside that union were a threat to human civilization.
Beyond fundamental freedoms and economic prosperity, do we have a specific civilization to defend?
Ours is a civilization that accepts selfishness towards one's own family and group; that tolerates, with few exceptions, autonomy in moral matters; and that considers blasphemy, criticism of authority, and even civil disobedience fundamental freedoms.
Our civilization, despite its drugs, prostitution, alcoholism, incivility, and vandalism, will always be better than rule by Mullahs or soldiers, because its social problems can be allayed, if never entirely eliminated, without changing the foundations of the regime.
But if our civilization is worth defending, why is it that fundamentalists, of whatever stripe, have the most committed fighters on their side?
Revolts of the RighteousIt has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of a more highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment.
When asked what he thought about Western civilization, Gandhi famously replied, “It would be a good idea.”
Welfare democracy goes hand in hand with pluralism, the rule of law, and a deep-rooted civilization.
This structure harks back to the conditions of NATO’s birth, when it was forged to thwart the Soviet threat to Western civilization.
By permitting these intolerant bullies to get away with their lawless acts of intimidation, we are allowing them to do violence to something vital to India’s survival as a civilization.
But global civilization is such a new phenomenon that we do not yet fully understand what is happening to each of us: we cling to old concepts in order to describe our emerging world.
To Peruvians, the artifacts are a reminder of the great Inca civilization that European conquerors destroyed.
The ideal of universal equality and rights does owe something to the history of Western civilization, from Socrates’ “natural justice” to Christianity and France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Consider Europe – a splendid and time-honored civilization, and now a major player on the world stage.
It places their country on a par with Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, as a “full member” of Europe – a position consistent with Greece’s status as the birthplace of Western civilization.
Our technologically advanced civilization – replete with remarkable tools and notable headaches – owes everything to a tapestry of cosmic and planetary history.
China is far too big to be taken for granted, and it wants to be shown the respect that it associates with being an ancient civilization that has contributed so much to human progress.
That fortunate fusion of classical antiquity, Jewish religiosity, Christianity, and the energy of so-called barbarian tribes incited Europe’s unprecedented advance that brought humanity countless things of value and influenced the entire civilization of our age.
Having lost its empire, Britain retains outsized global influence simply because of the power of its civilization and the education absorbed by its decision-makers.
By slashing the funding for the institutions which created that civilization, Cameron has guaranteed that tomorrow’s Britain will be a nation not of world-class politicians, writers, and cultural innovators, but of wonky technocrats raised on bad TV, with little influence beyond their tiny island.
While the fiscal savings may appear attractive to Cameron in the short term, for the British people – and for the rest of the world, which benefits from Britain’s liveliness, civilization, and tradition of democracy – the cost is far too high.
It is astounding to think that the world mobilized immediately to push Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, but has dithered for more than two years as tens of thousands of Syrians have been killed, and their country, a cradle of civilization, laid waste.
In 2015, mankind produced as much information as was created in all previous years of human civilization.
The New NATO and its New EnemiesPRAGUE - We are living in a remarkable time - a time that tests our ability to deal with a new and wide range of threats to humanity, threats which bear not only on our security, but also on our environment, and generally on our civilization.
These pathologies are energized in societies that are bereft, where sheer despair leaves people in positions without hope and faith in their surrounding society or civilization.
It is a division into natural regional entities united by shared cultural, historical and political traditions, as well as by a shared history of civilization, entities that yearn to communicate with one another as friends; to pursue all-around cooperation; and, thus, to help forge a better social order, based on planetary peace.
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