There was something beatnik, intellectual, European about being disconnected from the car culture: the rest of America might deliquesce into one big strip mall, but New York City would remain a little outpost of humane civilization, an enclave of ancient modes of transportation — the subway, the bus, the taxi, the bicycle, the foot.
There was something beatnik, intellectual, European about being disconnected from the car culture: the rest of America might deliquesce into one big strip mall, but New York City would remain a little outpost of humane civilization, an enclave of ancient modes of transportation the subway, the bus, the taxi, the bicycle, the foot.
Then I sat down to read Freud, for the first time — "Civilization and Its Discontents," "Totem and Taboo," "The Interpretation of Dreams" — and was struck at once by the absurdity of the arguments as arguments and the impressive weight of humane culture marshalled in their support.
Then I sat down and read Freud, for the first time—"Civilization and Its Discontents," "Totem and Taboo," "The Interpretation of Dreams"—and was struck at once by the absurdity of the arguments as arguments and the impressive weight of humane culture marshaled in their support.
Citing the Bengali author Nirad C. Chaudhuri (one of his picks), he explains, "A civilization continues through the humane examination of its history".
Whether these people are called avatars, saints, prophets, they are people who have attained a quality of humanness that removes the distorting lens of human egoism, charges them with a moral magnetism, and illuminates them with a humane wisdom that ripples through the centuries, or may even create a new civilization.
In a global society whose constituents, much like equal individuals within nation-states, are nations of equal right and dignity, diverse cultures and civilizations can and should work collectively to build a moral and humane world with liberty and progress for all.
"My efforts in the future will be directed," Grant said in his second inaugural address, "by a humane course, to bring the aborigines of the country under the benign influences of education and civilization ... Wars of extermination ... are demoralizing and wicked".
New American humane education programs in Philippine public schools stressed the importance of animal kindness, including the proper care of pet dogs, as a keystone of civilization, moral agency and, perhaps, future independence.
