• Drug epidemics are not like plagues of locusts or earthquakes. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • In the eyes of national statists the most important elements are, however, brought into account in the ancient subdivision of diseases into plagues, or epidemics and endemics, into diseases of common occurrence (sporadic diseases), which may be conveniently divided into three classes, and into injuries, the immediate results of violence or of external causes. (cdc.gov)
  • Declinism is a problem of rhetoric or belief. (thebaffler.com)
  • The alarm was more than a little caricatured - broadly speaking, the socialist left has always understood industrialization as a necessary precondition for social advancement - and few of her ecologically minded contemporaries employed rhetoric as black-and-white or anti-human as Rand would suggest. (versobooks.com)
  • This correspondence qualifies it as an archetypical disease of poverty, and implicated cholera in the larger nineteenth-century political anxiety over the "social question. (yale.edu)
  • Inequality, itself linked to ill-health, has grown to levels unseen since the nineteenth century, leading to large power imbalances throughout society. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Less-educated Americans' prospects are getting worse: they are losing materially, they are enduring more pain and social isolation, and their lives are getting shorter. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • Specialists call social isolation a modern plague as this phenomenon becomes more wide-spread among contemporary people. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Modern research connect social disadvantage and isolation from to the increasing number of mental illnesses. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Hartwell (2008) report that the last reserch explain this correlation by production of myelin within human body caused by social isolation. (topessaywriting.net)
  • The researcher emphasizes that further isolation from the society brings even more radical changes in the health of disadvantaged individuals. (topessaywriting.net)
  • In the society where social and economic success play one of the most important roles in the society, social isolation is a disadvantage causing a severe mental pain for an individual. (topessaywriting.net)
  • As one may see, social isolation is not the only disadvantage causing the development of mental instability. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Rather than being embarrassed, Ruttenberg lays it all out for us - the social isolation, the Ayn Rand books, the revelations she experienced dancing at Goth clubs. (thesmartset.com)
  • Just how unique contemporary democracies are when defining and handling violence can be glimpsed by comparing them with the fascist regimes of the recent past. (johnkeane.net)
  • In the last three decades, neoliberalism and global capitalism have destroyed social democracies , widened gaps between rich and poor , dispossessed farmers , assaulted indigenous peoples , and marketized the entire world, all the while escalating the war on animals and intensifying the assault on every ecosystem on the earth as a whole. (wikiquote.org)
  • Human reactions to the plague are also the central themes of historical titles such as A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, a long, detailed narrative of events, anecdotes, and statistics regarding the Great Plague of London of 1665. (cdc.gov)
  • Despair, by contrast, is a disease of working-class Americans - people without a bachelor's degree - whose job opportunities, marriages, and social and economic institutions have weakened over the last half-century. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • The despair story is one of a society that is not serving large numbers of its people, effectively consigning them to second-class citizenship. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • In the ancient world, plague and pestilence were rather frequent calamities, and ordinary people were likely to have witnessed or heard vivid and scary reports about their terrible ravages. (cdc.gov)
  • the issue is not that people die from the plague, but that people are plagued by death. (cdc.gov)
  • There did arise from time to time twisted rulers who tried this way and that to oppress and restrict prostitution, and in those times there were people who preferred to blame everyone but themselves for their problems. (mipco.com)
  • Dahmer had the cops called on him multiple times and was found suspicious by multiple neighbors, but police either didn't take reports seriously because they were from Black people or failed to thoroughly investigate due to contemporary stigmas surrounding homosexuality. (northbynorthwestern.com)
  • Nowadays, people are claiming to be extremely stressed, depressed, and in in some cases alienated within the society Accoding to various studies, modern society is overwhelmed with social media, hi-tech gadgets, and Internet leaving no space for direct communication. (topessaywriting.net)
  • With people becoming more isolated, those who have certain social dsadvantages are left behind the societal events. (topessaywriting.net)
  • There are a lot of people suffering from complete alientation within the society who are sending the majority of their time in complete loneliness. (topessaywriting.net)
  • In the world tending to globalization the differences between people are sharpening within the society. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Social disadvantage leads to alienation from the job market, and as the result, such people begin to feel incredibly depressed and lost within the modern conditions. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Although the four groups are widely dissimilar, they all have some relation to an American utopian tradition in which people withdraw to form groups either to escape from mainstream society or to provide it an example. (nybooks.com)
  • One could quarrel with FitzGerald's notion that these people are trying to "reinvent" themselves so as to reinvent America, or convert or coerce it, into becoming a society of theological probity or sexual freedom or myriad golf courses-a society of certitude and play. (nybooks.com)
  • FitzGerald finds examples of this in studies of retirement communities, which proved, for example, that they provide "life satisfaction to that self-selected group of people which choose to live in them," or that "the inhabitants of a certain retirement village were better educated and better off than the average retired person-a fact that could have been deduced from the price of houses in that development. (nybooks.com)
  • More and more people are giving up on work and modern society in order to live off-grid, and resurrecting ideas long associated with anarcho-primitivism. (versobooks.com)
  • Seven-billion people can't live in a stone-age society. (versobooks.com)
  • The New York Society Library was opened to help promote "a spirit of inquiry among the people. (columbia.edu)
  • In 1842, the American poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe published The Masque of the Red Death, a short story unique in the literary tradition of the plague by focusing only on the metaphorical element of the theme. (cdc.gov)
  • He develops in this encyclopaedic treatise the idea of the two kingdoms or societies ( city , except in a very metaphorical sense, is too narrow to be an adequate translation of civitas ), the Kingdom of God consisting of His friends in this world and the next, whether men or angels, while the earthly kingdom is that of His enemies. (catholic.com)
  • By exploring the motif of the plague, a consistent and well-spread theme in literature, London's novel is part of a long literary tradition, inviting the reader to reflect on the ancestral fear of humans toward infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • In The Scarlet Plague, London investigated many traditional issues of the literary theme of plague, ranging from a reflection on morality and justice to the contagion and clinical features of the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • This causal relationship between plague and sin is seen also in Greek literary texts, such as Homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Oedipus the King (429 BCE ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Spanish Empire gave way to an antagonistic collection of highly unstable proto-nations with little political or social cohesion. (theglobalist.com)
  • This article challenges this assumption and contends that COVID-19 has amplified pre-existing anxieties about the lack of proper social cohesion and solidarity within Haredi Jewish communities. (mdpi.com)
  • One philosophically inclined Athenian, a younger contemporary of Thucydides, looked over his shoulder at his own city's recent past and came to a similar conclusion, and the approach he took to resolving its problems is instructive. (cambridgeblog.org)
  • In short, a major conversion of mind would be required of modern man even to appreciate the moral problem posed in this psalm, much less to deal with that problem philosophically or, yet less, to make it the inquiry of prayer-such as we find in this psalm. (touchstonemag.com)
  • Among the unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas, including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). (wikipedia.org)
  • Psalm 73 is concerned with much the same moral problem as Job and Habakkuk-"If God is just and on the side of justice, and if also God is almighty, why do wickedness and injustice seem to prevail? (touchstonemag.com)
  • Indeed, one of the more characteristic features of the modern world is its growing inability to presume that the moral order, including the social order, is rooted in the metaphysical order, described by Colin Gunton as "the order of being as a whole. (touchstonemag.com)
  • Moving south of the river, the pioneering work of three female architects who worked for the public sector on major social housing schemes in the 1960--70s reveals another layer of the contribution of women to the contemporary cityscape. (frieze.com)
  • In order to understand the ways American society has changed since 1960, affected by economic changes that have brought women and blacks into the work-place, demographic changes, and changes in the cultural behavior of the white middle class, FitzGerald takes "soundings" in four groups that sprang up in the Seventies and Eighties, perhaps in response to these changes. (nybooks.com)
  • Such scenarios, while undoubtedly terrifying, are seductive in the freedom from conventional morality and social bondage they envision, but are equally fantasies which deter us from imagining actual methods of altering the systems of power that presently exist. (realtimearts.net)
  • If you think about it, you will realize that what is missing in this picture are the very qualities that allow human beings to live in social harmony. (tapnewswire.com)
  • There is often emphasis on abuse, social ostracization, mental illness or other traumatic events in childhood, with even more drama for effect. (northbynorthwestern.com)
  • The researchers report that mental illness is intrinsically social and influence in all spheres of an individual's functioning. (topessaywriting.net)
  • The contemporary model of U.S. capitalism is failing the majority of American society causing an 'epidemic of despair,' marked by high rates of drug abuse and suicide, write Professor Emeritus Anne Case and 2015 Nobel laureate Professor Emeritus Angus Deaton. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • great failure of contemporary American capitalism is that it is not serving everyone. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • There is nothing fundamentally awry in society, and certainly no sign of a deep flaw in the way that contemporary American capitalism is working. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • How can the productive power of modern capitalism be harnessed for social ends? (theglobalist.com)
  • The goal was not to destroy bourgeois society and its prosperity-making machine, but rather to bring it to heel under popular control - in other words, to make capitalism safe for democracy. (theglobalist.com)
  • Rather than a force for social improvement through political reform, capitalism in Latin America was often seen exclusively through the unforgiving lens of colonial history. (theglobalist.com)
  • In its most antinomian forms, this meant that capitalism, in its contemporary globalized version, is not an economic engine to be mastered. (theglobalist.com)
  • They were aware, for example, of the views of Jean-Jacques Rousseau regarding the role of education in supporting the legitimacy of a social contract of rights and liberties, and in maximizing human potential. (americasquarterly.org)
  • For an instance, the new Russian elite requires a new means of representing its legitimacy, one of which is possibly contemporary art. (chtodelat.org)
  • The trouble with contemporary Christianity is that a massive bait and switch is going on. (blogspot.com)
  • My point in all this is that contemporary Christianity has lost its way. (blogspot.com)
  • Before Christianity prostitution was not a problem. (mipco.com)
  • These revisions in government data show that the Japanese economic recovery is still far from full-fledged, and in fact, remains feeble and unstable. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Firstly, the politician-criminal-bureaucrat nexus has grown into a gangrenous disease, eating into the very socio-economic texture of society. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Despite the cautionary tale provided by Chinese, Soviet and Cuban collectivist experiments, until quite recently socialist-style revolution was seen in both academic and workers' circles in large swathes of the Global South as a credible alternative on the path to national economic and social empowerment. (theglobalist.com)
  • As our own world reels from the disruptive social and economic impacts of the novel coronavirus, some commentators, I think rightly, blame the extent of its effects on structural, systemic failures and vulnerabilities in the human political economy and in our relationship to the natural world. (cambridgeblog.org)
  • Meanwhile, bottom up movements, surfing a heady mix of social media and dissatisfaction with orthodox economic ideas, are beginning to score political victories across the world. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Overall, the researchers are reporting that the economic gap is widenning nowadays casing the elimination of middle class while increasing the number of lower layer of the society. (topessaywriting.net)
  • He specialized in studying the life, culture and stateless society of Northwest Coast Indians. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ellis doesn't fall prey to this tendency, however, and Poet #7's setting (or rather, settings) within a world that has undergone a cryptically-referred-to Armageddon are not accomplished simply in order to make crude comments on the problems of modern life. (realtimearts.net)
  • Of particular interest will be society\'s views of the ordering and pacing of life events. (northwestern.edu)
  • Like, say, that between contemporary Western life and radical fundamentalism? (principiadiscordia.com)
  • together, elected, responsible government and the dispersal of power within civil society provide organised protection from the fear or fact of injury or loss of life. (johnkeane.net)
  • The scholars are reporting that in the modern world the social ties are melting due to the intense rhythm of life, changing the norms of private life, and decreasing of social ties. (topessaywriting.net)
  • These societies represented a life which was not possible in the country. (columbia.edu)
  • Surreptitious data collection and use is a fact of life for all of us in the global village, whether we are surfing the Internet in a bustling city in the most developed country or texting our kin from a remote village in sub-Saharan Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • In the early, expansive years of neoliberalism, unpopularity and policy failures were less of a problem. (wikiquote.org)
  • The Republic , as I read it, is a philosophical thought-experiment about how to create and maintain a durable, sustainable society in light of such failures, and Plato himself, to use contemporary parlance, proves to be something of a systems modeler in this regard. (cambridgeblog.org)
  • In its explanation of that mission, the school states: "We educate teacher candidates and other school personnel about issues of social injustice such as institutionalized racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism. (blogspot.com)
  • Thus, there is no way for injustice to prevail, for if a society approves or prefers a certain kind of behavior, then the latter conduct automatically becomes just. (touchstonemag.com)
  • Human predators populate our society. (tapnewswire.com)
  • The problem with "human sciences"- which is a vague and inappropriate term - is that in theory, they should be interested in everything that is, or at least everything that is thinkable. (ncregister.com)
  • FitzGerald's book is born of the sense we all share of being watched, and, as she points out, of often presenting "bizarre and comic spectacles to the world,"-but good-naturedly, our excesses of social experiment arising, after all, from our democratic notions and an idea of human perfectibility. (nybooks.com)
  • The notion of undertaking a global anti-industrial revolution to reinstate pre-civilizational modes of human social organization is, understandably, generally dismissed as fantastical and fatalistic. (versobooks.com)
  • Patriarchy, Civilization and the Origins of Gender" nods towards eco-feminism, one of the few contemporary intellectual currents Zerzan has shown a fundamental affinity towards. (fifthestate.org)
  • The second was the simple fact of Kuhnʼs demonstration of the intellectual force of historical inquiry. (radicalphilosophy.com)
  • Gradually, the purpose of these societ- ies evolved from the social to the intellectual. (columbia.edu)
  • The social circles in the community continued to grow and encour- age intellectual association. (columbia.edu)
  • To herald a peaceful social existence in such a society, one must destroy the very roots of crime and not be contented trimming foliage. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Anarchism, when applied consistently, provides structures allowing for highly advantageous strategies when defending society, making anarchist social structures capable of defence against external invasion when fully established. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Comparing authoritarian-communist strategies to the strategies implementable under a fully established anarchist society in a context where the survival of the society is at stake, anarchist structures are more strategically advantageous in 16 of the dimensions whilst still proving capable regarding the 17th dimension. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Because of the defensive successes of authoritarian-communism, anarchist structures being more advantageous than authoritarian-communism in this context gives theoretical grounding for maintaining that an anarchist society could sufficiently defend itself against military aggression. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Political instability and weak democratic structures, inadequate political commitment to health development, and outbreaks of wars and social conflicts had been common. (who.int)
  • In fact, while there are undoubtedly important examples of significant developments in education in many countries in the region, there is a growing awareness of the deficiencies. (americasquarterly.org)
  • and his 2005 article on stateless social organization "From Upstate New York to the Horn of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anarcho-primitivism is perhaps best understood as a fringe outgrowth of green anarchism that advocates humanity's return to a primitive, pre-agricultural, hunter-gatherer state of social organization. (versobooks.com)
  • Even though it was published more than a century ago, The Scarlet Plague feels contemporary because it allows modern readers to reflect on the worldwide fear of pandemics, a fear that remains very much alive. (cdc.gov)
  • In particular, the author focused his attention on behavioral responses to a pandemic, showing the emergence of fear, irrationality, and selfishness in a previously civilized and modern society. (cdc.gov)
  • Democracy requires citizens to stay alert, to open their eyes and their mouths - to understand that societies of sheep typically beget governments of wolves. (johnkeane.net)
  • The growing number of studies in social exclusion points to the fact that the phenomenon is spreading faster each year. (topessaywriting.net)
  • In opposition to the cussion spreads with different languages in our possibility of characterizing a phenomenon as society and in other fields of knowledge when directly archetypal, we could name it as the we think about sexuality. (bvsalud.org)
  • While its demographic impact could not compare to that of the bubonic plague, it nonetheless held a tremendous purchase on the European social imagination. (yale.edu)
  • The middle class, and America, would strengthen, and that pesky income inequality problem would slowly shrink. (citywatchla.com)
  • Daughter's teen frustrations make her a social pariah, unable to forge meaningful connections with her parents or peers. (realtimearts.net)
  • According to Ilardi (2009), around 25% of modern Americans have no meaningful social support at all. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Exodus 9:14, Numbers 11:33, 1 Samuel 4:8, Psalms 89:23, Isaiah 9:13), the plague was viewed as one of God's punishments for sins, so the frightening description of its spread was interpreted as a warning to the Israelites to behave morally. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, their concern has been more with "the sins of the Shah" than with current and pressing problems. (chalcedon.edu)
  • Strictly speaking, then, since for modern man correct behavior consists solely in the acquiescence to purely cultural norms, there can really be no such thing as an unjust society. (touchstonemag.com)
  • While it is no secret that equally serious violations of the professional boundary between analyst and patient plague analysis today, there remains the damning fact in his case that many of Khan's contemporaries-the venerable Winnicott included- knew of his infractions at the time he was committing them but did nothing. (bostonreview.net)
  • The region remains rife with border disputes, social unrest and political upheavals. (theglobalist.com)
  • The main thing is to look good for the global marketplace, to play at "law and order", and to render all of the very real social problem-zones invisible. (chtodelat.org)
  • That option was barred by the pathology of the contemporary socioeconomic order . (wikiquote.org)
  • They have experienced a widely documented increase in pain - a problem so severe among later-born cohorts that middle-aged Americans are now reporting more pain than the elderly , something that is not true in Europe. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • Critics of the dispositions standard contend that the idea of "social justice," a term frequently employed in left-wing circles, is open to politicization. (blogspot.com)
  • Even when disagreeing about how much of today's problems should be laid at the feet of the colonial inheritance, few would question its centrality to understanding contemporary Latin America and its politics. (theglobalist.com)
  • Time also provide templates for academic theory -- anthropological theory of the past, for example, depicted societies in an evolutionary continuum from primitive to modern. (northwestern.edu)
  • To drive home the notion that education schools ought to evaluate teacher candidates on such parameters as attitude toward social justice, the council issued a revision of its accrediting policies in 2002 in a Board of Examiners Update. (blogspot.com)
  • Brooklyn College's School of Education, which is the only academic unit at the college with the status of school, is among dozens of education schools across the country that incorporate the notion of "social justice" in their guiding principles. (blogspot.com)
  • Such failings stand in sharp contrast to the developments observed in nations such as Finland, South Korea and Singapore, where education has been considered a national priority, and which today have some of the highest levels of access and rates of completion of K-12 education, in spite of the fact that four decades ago these education systems were no different than the education systems of many Latin American countries. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Like philosopher Slavoj Zizek, I've long been wary of the effectiveness of apocalypse as an ideological framing device-it's all too easy (and disempowering) to imagine that radical change can only occur through a complete upheaval in society. (realtimearts.net)
  • While radical critiques of technology had long been constrained in the realm of philosophy, a minority of 20 th century activists started to theorize that it might in fact be desirable to tear down the industrial system in total. (versobooks.com)
  • Their synthesis of politics and culture gives us the most integrated way of approaching both actual decline and superpower nostalgia (declin ism ) in the contemporary United States. (thebaffler.com)
  • Brooklyn College's School of Education has begun to base evaluations of aspiring teachers in part on their commitment to social justice, raising fears that the college is screening students for their political views. (blogspot.com)
  • The council's policies say that if an education school "has described its vision for teacher preparation as 'Teachers as agents of change' and has indicated that a commitment to social justice is one disposition it expects of teachers who can become agents of change, then it is expected that unit assessments include some measure of a candidate's commitment to social justice. (blogspot.com)
  • But the premium the Republic places on living within limits-limits dictated by the availability of natural resources-and its recognition of the need for broad structural change in society and for a reorientation of individual motivations and priorities rings true across the millennia. (cambridgeblog.org)
  • As a matter of fact, the chief Roman institutions survived the fateful year. (icr.ro)
  • During the primary season this year, Americans were treated to spirited discussions on both sides of the aisle about our country's increasing problem with income inequality. (citywatchla.com)
  • 2017) and are therefore authoritarian, it seems doubtful that an anarchist society has the capacity to defend itself against a state military and would therefore be indefensible and therefore unviable as a model for a revolutionary society. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Taylor (1982) notes that historically, non-state societies, although internally stable, are usually destroyed by state conquest (p168). (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Kropotkin (1902) echoes this reasoning, observing that self organising mutual-aid societies, such as village communities, lasted centuries (p115-120), but were destroyed by state aggression (p223-227). (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • As we have documented endlessly in our Media Alerts, facts and ideas that promote the interests of the state-corporate system are powerfully boosted. (medialens.org)
  • The conflict between the new religion and the Roman Empire was due partly to the very thoroughness of the Christian system and it naturally emphasized the distinction between this new society and the old state. (catholic.com)
  • 2014) state that social disadvantage is both the reason of mental conditions and its consequence. (topessaywriting.net)
  • Keep up with the latest from Cambridge University Press on our social media accounts. (cambridgeblog.org)
  • The futility comes from the fact that various pre-exhortation Catholic spin machines have set a context for the reception of Amoris Laetitia that the world media will find irresistible, by focusing almost exclusive attention on the question of whether the pope would endorse one or other of Walter Cardinal Kasper's proposals for admitting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to holy communion (quick preview: Francis doesn't). (eppc.org)
  • All of this may have remained a time-bound anachronism, however, but for the echoes that have begun to resurface in recent years among off-grid prepper communities and free-floating memes on social media. (versobooks.com)
  • He writes easily and with grace about a variety of relevant topics from liberal political theory to contemporary apocalyptic terrorism, from Sorel to Muslim fundamentalism. (johnkeane.net)
  • Add to this factor within the Soviet Union an external factor, the rise of Muslim nationalism and Marxism outside of the Soviet Union, in Asia, the Near East, and North Africa, and you have all the ingredients for social turbulence, war, and revolution. (chalcedon.edu)
  • It analyzes these dynamics through "Stop the Spread", a Haredi "anti-gossip" campaign that links the ill health of social relations within the Haredi Jewish body politic to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within its communities. (mdpi.com)
  • MacCallum graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelors in art history and received a Masters of Arts in social anthropology from the University of Washington. (wikipedia.org)
  • That is something that societies throughout history have had to endure, and will no doubt have to endure again. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • In a similar manner, The Betrothed and History of Infamy, both written by Italian novelist Alessandro Manzoni, were extraordinary descriptions of the plague that struck Milan around 1630. (cdc.gov)
  • L.M. Lee our social security numbers, dates of birth, and mothers' maiden names to our credit card companies to reduce the collective cost of theft of credit card information and unauthorized charging. (cdc.gov)
  • There are ecological, spiritual, psychological, social and political implications to his perspective, and they form the basic beliefs held by most radicals who today call themselves "anarcho-primitivists" or "anti-civ. (fifthestate.org)
  • ʻScienceʼ was an important site of cultural and political contestation, both because of the challenge to scientific authority mounted by the emerging counterculture, and because of the more circumscribed battle for scientific status going on in the social sciences. (radicalphilosophy.com)
  • When it runs amuck (and in Russia, it seems to run amuck most of the time), the desire for political visibility is frustrated by grotesque images of a society lurching toward socio-political and cultural disaster. (chtodelat.org)
  • Its theme will be deriving and applying social and cultural frameworks for understanding the dynamics of time or, more generally, temporalities. (northwestern.edu)
  • The first is largely descriptive, giving an overview of the historical and contemporary role of surveillance in public health and legal responsibility for public health. (cdc.gov)
  • The government could have stepped in, but that's barred by reigning doctrine: "Government is the problem," Reagan told us with his sunny smile, meaning that decision-making has to be handed over even more fully to the business world, which is devoted to private profit and is free from influence by those who might be concerned with the common good . (wikiquote.org)
  • This is why, unlike other critics of civilization such as Fifth Estate's David Watson, he calls for a return to hunting and gathering societies). (fifthestate.org)
  • It's revealing that a great deal of the discussion surrounding the early experiences with cholera revolved around the question of whether this was, in fact, the return of the plague. (yale.edu)
  • According to these authors, plague did not discriminate between the good and the evil but brought about the loss of all social conventions and a rise in selfishness and avarice. (cdc.gov)
  • Psychopaths are found in every segment of society, and there is a good chance that…you will have a painful or humiliating encounter with one. (tapnewswire.com)
  • Iran is good evidence of this fact. (chalcedon.edu)
  • and we relinquish some degree of privacy on a daily basis for the sake of the social good. (cdc.gov)
  • The Scarlet Plague, originally published by Jack London in 1912, was one of the first examples of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. (cdc.gov)
  • She can quote contemporary writers like Annie Dillard or theologians like Merton, and she does liberally, but whenever she stretches beyond describing her own personal experience, her ideas seem half-formed and unsupported. (thesmartset.com)
  • In collaboration with the Twentieth Century Society, AAXX100 also included a guided tour to rediscover key buildings designed by women over the past 100 years. (frieze.com)
  • In a glossary, the council says dispositions "are guided by beliefs and attitudes related to values such as caring, fairness, honesty, responsibility, and social justice. (blogspot.com)
  • At Brooklyn, "social justice" is one of the four main principles in its conceptual framework. (blogspot.com)
  • The school's conceptual framework states that it develops in its students "a deeper understanding of the quest for social justice. (blogspot.com)
  • Justice is configured only as a society decides to configure it. (touchstonemag.com)
  • That is to say, whatever prevails in a society is necessarily just, because society is the sole and ultimate arbiter of justice. (touchstonemag.com)
  • getting them to obey European officers will be a problem. (chalcedon.edu)
  • In fact, some of these activities make you worse, interpersonally speaking. (blogspot.com)
  • They have not adopted procedures to make sure the prisoner is in fact deeply unconscious from the anesthesia before the paralyzing second and painful third drugs are administered. (hrw.org)
  • The problem is that Ruttenberg is not a nuanced enough thinker or writer to make proclamations about religion as a whole. (thesmartset.com)
  • Before turning to possible solutions, it's worth considering how our society trains us to seek happiness in a particular direction, and to understand the power of this conditioning. (medialens.org)
  • This panel aims to explore these questions by critically reflecting upon the politics of two of the largest and most successful Left student organizations of recent times: the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). (marxisthumanistinitiative.org)
  • Peter F. Drucker, in Managing in Turbulent Times (Haryer & Row, 1980), calls attention to some very significant facts about the Soviet Union. (chalcedon.edu)