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Ethics and rules of justice change and have to adapt, as they have since the Enlightenment's ideals began breaking down the barriers of superstition, obscurantism, and demagogy that limited the realm of human freedom.
They find it hard to negotiate peace in a world that approaches them armed with the hateful echoes of medieval superstition.
That is a superstition.
But the parallel development of science underpinned efforts to expose such "superstition."
When, like the Tianamen Square demonstrators, it met with an uncompromising government counter-attack, it soon became obvious that, however strange and fantastic its followers might seem from the outside, Party leaders viewed the movement as a menace They labeled it a xiejiao zuzhi, literally a “heretical” or “depraved” organization, a term of denigration long-reserved for “unorthodox” religious or spiritual groups based on superstition.
But, as the current scandal surrounding the UN's administration of the Iraq oil for food program demonstrates, and as the world remembers the Rwanda genocide that began ten years ago, respect for the UN should be viewed as something of a superstition, with Secretary General Kofi Annan its false prophet.
If, as we were taught by Marx, belief in a higher law is a mixture of sentimentality, superstition, and unconscious rationalizations, then the predations that incited the Orange Revolution are in reality the only possible conditions in which we can live.
Indians, after all, manage to live in that rare combination of modernity and superstition that defines them as a breed apart.
Why do otherwise intelligent, educated people put themselves in thrall to superstition?
The Halappanavar case thus reverses the Western stereotype of Eastern societies as preserves of superstition and religious extremism.
Now, as president, Yanukovych’s crude instinct is to treat the law and constitution as Karl Marx thought of them: as a mixture of sentimentality, superstition, and the unconscious rationalization of private interests.
The government demands that Web sites, television programs, and other media meet three general criteria:They must support, or at least not hinder, China's efforts to sustain economic growth, maintain social order, unify with Taiwan, and secure international respect;They must support, or at least not question, the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on political power; andThey must oppose such "negative" social phenomena as "spiritual pollution" (for example, pornography and drug abuse), "bourgeois liberalization" (Western-style democratization), "feudal superstition" (the Falun Gong and other proscribed religions), and "worship of things foreign" (especially American popular culture).
Faith-based science seems a contradiction in terms, because the scientific worldview emerged as a challenge to religious superstition.
From the search for answers to these questions arose a new epistemology, based on the empiricism and skepticism of science, which came to prevail over the forces of religion, tradition, and superstition.
Trump’s War on EvidenceWASHINGTON, DC – Decision-making based on evidence rather than superstition was a driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, and the collection of statistics has, accordingly, become a hallmark of the modern age.
Don't forget in proceedings like this there are always lots of different things coming up to talk about, things that you just can't understand with reason alone, you just get too tired and distracted for most things and so, instead, people rely on superstition.
I repeat that all this is just a ridiculous superstition, and in most cases it's completely disproved by the facts, but when you live in that society it's hard to hold yourself back from beliefs like that.
Just think how much effect that superstition can have.
The mind, once rejecting useful information, insensibly leans to superstition and conclusions on the order of nature, that are not less prejudicial to the cause of truth, than they are at variance with the first principles of human knowledge."
He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit.
The truth was, that a superstition of his had failed, here, which he and all his comrades had always looked upon as infallible.
I'd like to see her get around _this_ with her rubbage 'bout superstition.
"The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.
My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also; but if I have one quality upon earth it is common-sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
We heard the hound on the moor, so I can swear that it is not all empty superstition.
Their ignorance and gross superstition made them the facile tools of their designing chiefs.
A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical superstition; for, on the summit of a hillock, so regular as to seem artificial, there still remained part of a circle of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions.
I will owe to the superstition of thy brethren what their compassion might refuse me, Each Preceptory--each Chapter of thy Order, shall learn, that, like a heretic, thou hast sinned with a Jewess.
Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition.
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