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The first portion, about two-thirds of the text, suggests that the French, in their enthusiasm for the idea of liberty, had failed to understand that liberty was only one amongst a range of benefits, all of which were required in mutual connexion for a life under civil government that was civilized in the proper sense.
In line with this Millian view, were the average level of civilization among representatives higher or equivalent to the one obtaining within the electorate, publicity could still increase in absolute terms the amount of civilized persons attending the representative's discourse, adding civilized members of the public to those who are civilized in parliament.
The ocean has been at the service of man since the first bark was launched on it; and commerce has been proved to be the great medium of international intercourse since the earlier Phoenicians adventured on distant voyages, and, in exchange for their manufactures, distributed the metallic products of Britain over the then civilized world.
Burke recognized misery, did not deny it, and therefore had a lively sense of the imperfection of arrangements, however civilized they might be.
Worthy of critical exploration in the case of these figures: the extent to which, and on what terms, each of them embraced (assimilated) prevailing European and Euro-American conceptions of civilization and the processes and conditions, states of character in particular, by which a person or people could be said to be "civilized".
According to this supposedly divinely sanctioned philosophical anthropology, African and African-descended children, women, and men were defined as constituting a category of being to which none of the normative moral and ethical notions and principles governing civilized life applied.
At its core, Whitehead's philosophy of education emphasizes the idea that a good life is most profitably thought of as an educated or civilized life, two terms which Whitehead often uses interchangeably.
For Schlegel, this more sensual aspect of language is always present: however civilized a people may be, they cannot avoid using different tones and rhythms to express themselves (SW VII, 115).
James T. Holly, who advocated emigration to, and himself subsequently settled in, Haiti and authored a lengthy work devoted to "defending the inherent capabilities of the Negro race, for self-government and civilized progress" (A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-Government and Civilized Progress, 1857), was a clergyman.
"The good news is we live in a civilized society where questions like this are decided based on fact in open and transparent courts of law, and not on street corners".
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For blacks to affect history, they must become civilized , and propagate civilizing reason to push history forward.
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The word "civilized" primarily functions as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe a state of societal or individual refinement. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage, as exemplified in sentences like "a civilized society" or "a civilized discussion."
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