Brooks's intelligent alternative history beautifully posits the collective inability of global political administrations to function in the face of an entirely unexpected threat, and the appalling ramifications of their failure on ordinary individuals from soldiers to doctors to priests.
Never before had there been a suggestion that so many ordinary individuals from across the country were regularly viewing this kind of material.
Similarly, Thomas Nagel argues in favor of the boundary between public and private on the basis that it prevents ordinary individuals from being forced to take on public roles.
Azevedo was inspired by her own sense of "uneasiness in public monuments, which are a historical celebration very distant from the ordinary individual".
In fact, we've spent ample time clarifying the bounds of where religion has it's rule in a pluralized society so much so that ordinary, individual citizens have had to labor to define themselves apart from it.
These people ranged from the intellectually elite to ordinary individuals to patients with severe neurological disorders, many of whom found remarkable ways to adjust to or compensate for their condition.
Otherwise, the ordinary individual will be powerless.
Some see participatory intentions as an instance of an ordinary intention, familiar from the study of individual agency; if we-intentions are identified with, or built out of these participatory intentions, we would thus be offered the prospect of a reductive account of this we-intention in terms of ordinary individual intentions.
If one searches for a natural compound which consistently transforms ordinary individuals into "superhumans" with optimal physiologic function, inducing similar physiologic adaptations to those observed from caloric restriction or exercise training, resveratrol and other known substances are bound to disappoint.
It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns.
The accumulation and classification of vast amounts of often mundane material garnered from surveillance of ordinary individuals is one of the defining aspects of the totalitarian state – as evinced by the East German Stasi archives and Stalin's insistence that those he ordered to be killed in the great purge had to be photographed first.
