Sentence examples for human superiority from inspiring English sources

For too long those Judeo Christian beliefs in human superiority have justified dominance, exploitation of and especially abuse of animals.

Taylor adds: "Radical environmentalists have a strong suspicion that western science divides people from the natural world and promotes an ideology of human superiority".

"Dominus Iesus," he wrote, "is not a proclamation of some human superiority in contrast to any other person or institution" but instead "a reaffirmation of what the church believes and lives with an ever abiding sense of her own unworthiness".

Since the angels were ignorant of these names, he commanded them to bow down to Adam, to symbolise human superiority over angels due to our free will, intelligence, capacity to understand and express ourselves in eloquent language.

Lying behind this adamant assertion of human superiority is a set of dogmatic beliefs which are rarely fully articulated, but which are in fact the tenets of a new religion.

For many years now I have wanted to see an end to claims of human superiority based on the belief that animals, even if they feel, do not have the "higher" emotions of humans based on the capacity for symbolisation and self-awareness.

These are closely linked since Chinese art provides examples of "le comique absolu" where laughter is provoked by the human sense of superiority to nature.

Diane's rebellion isn't against God; it's against the human selfishness and superiority that so often masquerade as concern, and also the one-size-fits-all thinking that would seek to diminish her heartache.

But before humans, their mental superiority reconfirmed, relax in their jobs, they should keep one thing in mind.

In his seminal masterpiece, The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen first outlined how humans express their superiority through displays of wealth, famously dubbing the process "conspicuous consumption".

While the technocentric paradigm accepts the superiority of human beings over nature and supports unlimited growth, the ecocentric paradigm rejects human domination over nature and emphasizes harmony in nature.