Since this region was the first in Europe to utilize African slavery while gradually rejecting the enslavement of fellow European Christians, Iberian Christians may have come to associate blacks as physically and mentally suitable only for menial labor.
Thus, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are mistakenly seen as applying a reason-centered epistemology to a common metaphysical agenda, with each trying to improve on the efforts of the one before, while Locke, Berkeley and Hume are mistakenly seen as gradually rejecting those metaphysical claims, with each consciously trying to improve on the efforts of his predecessors.
Men are gradually rejecting society's stereotypical ideas of "proper" male roles.
These societies tend to gradually reject the more draconian rules, and slowly liberalize them to become more in tune with global trends and the liberalizing influences of modern information technology.
As with pragmatism, Critical Theory came gradually to reject the demand for a scientific or objective basis of criticism grounded in a grand theory.
Gradually, the two rejected loners who only had Bella in common find a kinship, united against the authorities that hunt them down.
The people exclaiming over each other's machines are devoted to cars that, gradually or quickly, were rejected so emphatically by the public that their makers had to give up on them.
Rejected 59 to 40, July 13. 4. Estate Taxes: Vote on a bill that would gradually eliminate the federal tax on large estates.
However, as Frampton explains in this intelligent and sympathetic study, Montaigne gradually came to reject despair and to conclude that "living happily … is the source of human happiness".
Danny, though, sneaks off to the library to read the forbidden works of Freud and others, gradually coming to reject the life his father wants to impose on him.
