Sentence examples for communal character from inspiring English sources
We need to protect our local foods, recall our mother tongues and rediscover our communal character".
The title comes from the Methodist and Baptist churches that dotted the region and defined its communal character back then.
The French philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889 1973) is not individualistic like Sartre (or at least the early Sartre, whose thinking was modified by Marxism); instead, he stresses the communal character of human existence the highest virtue being fidelity.
If there is a key to the convergence among these authors, it lies, first of all, in their insistence on the bodily and communal character of resurrection, a view that has long competed with a Hellenistic philosophical and especially Platonic dualism, in which an individual disembodied intellect or spirit could be saved from its corruptible and corrupting body.
He is particularly struck by the suggestion that pragmatist epistemology, by emphasizing the communal character of inquiry and the need to take account of the experiences and contributions of other inquirers, provides a basis for a defence of democratic values (1993: 1180 202).
Kay Hymowitz provides an example of a critique on communal character by noting the communal decline of the family and marriage in our post-marital society.
These examples display a type of degradation of communal human character that I see, a type we do not name as readily as individual character mistakes and flaws, due to a love of individualism -- the supremacy of individual freedom.
This ideal was no longer social, communal in character, as had been that of the city-state; it now concerned man as an individual or, better, as a person.
Implicitly they understand that there is such a thing as communal moral character.
Free market apologists tend to criticise systems like communism on the basis of its communal corrosion of character.
In a place of communal isolation, the characters are able to see only the people who are within the circle and thus have their conversation distorted, before forcing them to leave, one by one, from the space.
