"We're fighting for freedom, and civilisation and universal values".
His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilisation and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
A greater focus on western civilisation and Judeo-Christian values – these prescriptions from the Abbott government's national school curriculum review are utterly unsurprising.
The law is a cultural phenomenon that impacts on the whole normative system of a civilisation and finally its core values.
An instinctive quest for our civilisation and its towering humanistic values was never far from the core of Clark's writing.
Recent examples that I enjoyed include philosopher John Armstrong's In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea, which offers a refreshing defence of the idea of civilisation, and Helen Small's The value of the humanities, which provides an exploration for the reasons we study humanities within an historical context.
Isis does not give any value to civilisation and human history," he says, adding that the fact that it was deliberate made it much worse.
Miyazaki's movies are exciting and fantastical, often involving flying machines, ecological disasters, clashing civilisations and precarious spiritual values – all rendered in clean, colourful, hand-drawn animation.
In Tristes Tropiques he expressed a deep distaste for the values of contemporary civilisation, and for the solipsism of modern philosophy.
Donnelly, a former Liberal Party staffer, has said that the current history curriculum "undervalues Western civilisation and the significance of Judeo-Christian values to our institutions and way of life".
