The humility imposed on the Essene, the commitment not to "abuse his authority" or to display "external marks of superiority," may remind us of the "Let not yourselves be called masters, for Christ is your only master" of Matthew 23:10.
But the mark of his superiority as a journalist was the fact that the story never came before the people.
But "divergence" itself, as an inherent mark of rebel superiority, feeds an even more basic fantasy of teen exceptionalism.
But "divergence" itself, as an inherent mark of rebel superiority, feeds an even more basic fantasy — of teen exceptionalism.
In Russia, too, gay-bashing is a quasi-official policy, a mark of claimed superiority over the west.
Tolerance has become something of a founding mythology for western developed nations: our tolerance is regarded as a mark of our superiority over many less tolerant, less developed nations around the world.
Yet we go around pretending like it is possible and we allow those who claim it as a mark of their superiority to convince us they have more intelligence, more drive, more talent than we do.
But it also leaves it with enough content to have great virtues over rival theories: (1) The theory ties mental states conceptually to corresponding types of bodily behavior — which seems correct, and therefore marks a point of superiority over dualistic theories, and indeed over mind-brain identity theories as well.
(2) On the other hand, the theory also avoids reducing mental states to bodily behavior — which again seems correct, in view of such obvious facts as that we can be, and indeed often are, in particular mental states that happen to receive no behavioral manifestation, and which hence marks a point of superiority over outright behaviorist theories.
For Cantle, it is not dialogue or the importance of interaction that is supposed to mark the superiority of IC over MC.
