James Schellenberg writing in Challenging Destiny, a Canadian science fiction and fantasy magazine, was impressed by Shikasta "grand sense of perspective" and the context of humanity set in a "vaster scale of civilization and right-thinking".
In the broader context of humanity's ability to pursue the things that make it happy – climbing trees, watching sunsets, fucking, dancing, all that shit – agreement on this one item would be more uplifting than any kind of global warming treaty or strategic arms limitation talks.
Referencing the Isaac Asimov science fiction series Foundation, Musk placed SpaceX in the context of how humanity survives its own catastrophe. .
Hence the figure of the "triggered snowflake", a whiny nuisance who cowers from all the difficult issues they will encounter in the real world in their "safe space", too scaredy-cat incurious to even tackle them in the context of a Humanities curriculum.
If we have the guts to look at ourselves in the mirror and see ourselves honestly, and in the context of our common humanity, perhaps we can deal with human failure individually when we find it and stop demonizing by class, race, sex, politics, religion, and status.
The social nervous system makes us aware of a broader context of relationship with humanity.
Not in the racially divisive sense that some will want to read it but in the broader context of our shared humanity.
A universalist particularism can be found in some environmental contexts, when the future of humanity is up for consideration, or as it was nicely illustrated in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein when Victor Frankenstein decided not to jeopardize the human race by creating a companion for his monster (Shelley, 187).
Mr. McGregor hasn't, however, the secret of making the small become all the more valuable in context of the large, the humanity within the plan.
It is a vision that, in the Christian context, is founded on the idea of humanity as having a "priestly" relationship with the natural order: the human agent is created with the capacity to make sense of the environment and to move it into a closer relation with its creator by drawing out of it its capacity to become a sign of love and generosity.
Kant is worried that when people exercise their sexuality outside the context of monogamous marriage, they treat humanity merely as a means for their sexual purposes.
